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.
Charles-Koechlin
