nocturne-style

Updated: May 10, 2025

The piece, however, did not please him at all; it seemed to him a long movement in the nocturne-style, a Babel of figuration on a lightly-laid foundation. And now let us hear what remarks Tausig made with regard to the barcarolle: There are two persons concerned in the affair; it is a love- scene in a discrete gondola; let us say this mise en scene is the symbol of a lovers' meeting generally.

Frederick Niecks - Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2