The Nocturne in B-flat minor, Op.9, No.1 is actually not Chopin's earliest work in the form: the E Minor Nocturne published posthumously as Op.72, No.1 was composed in 1827, some three full years earlier. Camille Pleyel, with whom several noted musicians of the day, including Berlioz and Liszt, fell in love) still betray their stylistic debt to Field, although even at this early stage in his development Chopin's melancholy-tinged chromaticism and sinewy melodies stand in stark contrast to the Irish composer's far simpler pieces. The Three Nocturnes, Op.9 (dedicated to the famous pianist Mme. Chopin inherited the form from Irish composer John Field Field's influence is indeed palpable throughout Chopin's earliest published entries in the genre. The twenty-one Nocturnes of Frédéric Chopin (of which only twenty were designated as such by the composer, the well-known Nocturne in C-sharp minor of 1830 being in fact a pastiche of pre-existing music that only received the title Nocturne upon publication in 1875) span virtually his entire creative career.
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