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1er Nocturne

[musical score]
83 bars
piano solo

Composition: July 1868, probably in response to a commission from the publisher Hartmann. Bizet disregarded the fact that he had composed another 1er Nocturne in 1854.

Autograph score: F-Pn MS 457, Malherbe bequest. Oblong 12-stave paper, 246 x 345 mm., 5 f. (title page, music p. 2–9, blank)

The manuscript carries Hartmann’s stamp and plate number.
Printed score:
1
pl. no.:

G.H. 236

pages:

title page, blank, music 1–7, blank

date:

1868

ann.: Bibliographie de la France, 19-12-1868 @ 6f
copies:

F-Pn Ac.p.1835 (dépôt légal 1868)

F-Pn Vm12 3375

GB-Cu

2

Choudens père et fils, 265 Rue St Honoré, pl. no. A.C. 4638, 7 p., c. 1880. Copy: F-Pn Vm12 3376. Also reissued from later addresses. IMSLP.

3

Choudens, in Classe supérieure du piano, 2e volume, 1886, p. 140–46.

4

Masters Music Publications, Boca Raton, 8 p., 1991 (facsimile of Choudens edition).


Dedicatee: Marianne Paultre, who married Henri Lepellerin, Marquis de Gauville, in 1869.


Letter:
7-1868 Bizet to Galabert:
'Je viens de terminer [...] un Nocturne auquel j’attache de l’importance. Tout cela paraîtra en septembre ou octobre.'
Galabert, p. 147
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