Nocturne, Op. 33
for Piano
by Charles Koechlin
Piano Solo - Sheet Music

Piano - difficult

SKU: HL.49045865

For Piano. Composed by Charles Koechlin. Edited by Otfrid Nies. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Piano Solo. Classical. Softcover. Composed 1907. Op. 33. 20 pages. Duration 720 seconds. Schott Music #ED20779. Published by Schott Music (HL.49045865).

ISBN 9790001170710. UPC: 888680784263. 9.0x12.0x0.097 inches.

This first print is a rarity: the highly virtuoso, evocative 'Nocturne' owes its creation to an instrument that has only survived as a museum piece. Gustave Lyon, the director of the French instrument maker Pleyel, commissioned Charles Koechlin as well as several other French composers (such as Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel) to write works for the 'harpe chromatique' developed by him around 1900. In contrast to the common pedal harp, the chromatic harp allows for an unlimited modulatory range. Nevertheless, the instrument did not gain much acceptance and remained exotic. Koechlin was aware of the difficulty of introducing and establishing new instruments. He therefore, from the very beginning, had the piano as an alternative of equal value in mind when writing his Nocturne.