Francis Poulenc: Nocturnes pour Piano

Nocturnes is a set of 8 pieces for piano by Francis Poulenc. Composed between 1929 and 1938 for intermediate players, this set was composed as a cycle and represents night scenes of different events. They can be differentiated from most of the other nocturnes as they are not romantic tone-poems. Nocturnes’s eight pieces are: 1st Nocturne (C Major) – 2nd Nocturne ‘Bal de jeunes filles’ (A Major) – 3rd Nocturne ‘Les Cloches de Malines’ (F Major) – 4th Nocturne ‘Bal fantome’ (C minor) – 5th Nocturne ‘Phalenes’ (B minor) – 6th Nocturne (G major) – 7th Nocturne (Cb major) – 8th Nocturne ‘pour servir de Coda au Cycle’. Francis Poulenc is a French composer and pianist. He also produced Piano and Chamber pieces, Operas ‘Dialogues des Carmélites’, ballets ‘Les Biches’ as well as some Orchestra works.