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Offline dbrainiak914

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Saddest Chopin Nocturnes
on: January 12, 2006, 03:38:28 AM
What in your opinion are the saddest, loneliest, most desperate Chopin Nocturnes?  I know they are all wonderful and melancholic, but I'm only looking for four or five that can help my bad mood.
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Offline presto agitato

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Re: Saddest Chopin Nocturnes
Reply #1 on: January 12, 2006, 04:00:22 AM
Quote from: dbrainiak914 on January 12, 2006, 03:38:28 AM
What in your opinion are the saddest, loneliest, most desperate Chopin Nocturnes?  I know they are all wonderful and melancholic, but I'm only looking for four or five that can help my bad mood.

Op 48-1 Maybe
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Offline rohansahai

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Re: Saddest Chopin Nocturnes
Reply #2 on: January 12, 2006, 03:27:39 PM
op. 62 no. 2
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Offline kreso

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Re: Saddest Chopin Nocturnes
Reply #3 on: January 12, 2006, 03:46:46 PM
Quote from: presto agitato on January 12, 2006, 04:00:22 AM
Op 48-1 Maybe

I agree. I think that Chopin was so lonely, so desperate when he was writing this nocturne. You can feel pain and also that he suffered so much..
What a beutifull piece...
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Offline phil13

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Re: Saddest Chopin Nocturnes
Reply #4 on: January 12, 2006, 04:20:44 PM
E- Op.72-1 and C#- op. posth.

I find the Ballades much more melancholy than the Nocturnes.

Phil
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Offline roflman05

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Re: Saddest Chopin Nocturnes
Reply #5 on: January 12, 2006, 04:44:08 PM
I would say (besides the mentioned)

The C minor posthumous (no.21 i think)

really sad and lonely all through

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Offline jas

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Re: Saddest Chopin Nocturnes
Reply #6 on: January 12, 2006, 04:56:30 PM
I think there's something very wistful about 9/3.
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