The Irish composer John Field is credited with the invention of one of the most popular classical genres. John Field is a relatively unknown name in today’s classical music world, but he was a hugely ...

Chopin wrote nocturnes; Whistler painted them ... might try their hands at the musical arts—particularly the piano, which provides challenge and delight to both the novice and the professional. As the ...

For some his rubato in the Nocturnes has an effect on the music like a life­force being thwarted and blocked‚ while others will claim that Chopin was hardly an easy or ‘comfortable’ composer and that ...