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The Nocturnes are a set of five piano pieces (initially planned as a set of seven, but left unfinished)[a] by Erik Satie. They were written between August and November 1919. With the exception of the Premier Menuet (1920), they were his final works for solo piano, and are considered among his most significant achievements in the genre.[2]: 58 [3]: 142 The Nocturnes stand apart from Satie's piano music of the 1910s in their complete seriousness—lacking the zany titles, musical parody, and extramusical texts that he typically featured in his scores of the time. The completed set of five nocturnes takes about 13 minutes to perform.
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- ^ Myers, Rollo Hugh (1968) [Originally published in 1948 (first edition) by Dennis Dobson Ltd., London]. Erik Satie (2nd (illustrated and reprinted) ed.). New York City: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-21903-5.
- ^ Gowers, Patrick; Wilkins, Nigel E. (1986) [Reprinted from "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", 1980 (first) edition]. "CHAPTER TWO: Works". The New Grove Twentieth-century French Masters (Erik Satie). New York City: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-02284-1.
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