Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne 1
in B-flat Minor, Op. 9 No. 1
Chopin's first Nocturne starts with a gracefully decorated melody, and then goes in a mysterious direction.
Year: 1833
Period: Early Romantic
Piano score: PS Urtext 
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Gentle melancholy
The three nocturnes that comprise the Op. 9 set are among the most popular of all of Chopin’s works. No. 2, especially, is famous, but No. 1 is almost as well-known. It gently rocks listeners as if they were in an old-fashioned wooden crib. Chopin juxtaposes uneven collections of notes against the nearly rigid evenness of the eighth notes in the left hand. The second section takes us into a strange other world: an almost ascetic melody without ornaments, repeating the same phrases over and over again. This takes up a full two-thirds of the piece; by contrast, the two “A sections” are pretty tiny. This is another piece of Chopin’s in the minor that resolves into a major – "Picardy" – third at the end (like for instance the "Revolutionary Etude", and the Nocturne No. 20 in C-sharp minor).Background
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This piece is composed by Frédéric Chopin and was published in 1833. Title: Nocturne, Op. 9 No. 1 in B-flat Minor from Nocturnes. The difficulty level if graded by ABRSM would be approximately 8 and it belongs to the Early Romantic period.