Editing Nocturne (section)

==Principal composers of nocturnes==
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*[[Charles-Valentin Alkan]]: five for solo piano
* [[Anton Stepanovich Arensky]]: two nocturnes for piano, each part of a set: No. 1 from Six Pieces, Op. 5 (1884); No. 3 from ''Twenty-four Characteristic Pieces'', Op. 36 (1894); a nocturne for two pianos, no. 8 from Variations (Suite No. 3), Op. 33
*[[Arno Babajanyan]]: his nocturne, a lyrical piece in [[easy listening]] genre and a song performed by [[Muslim Magomayev (musician)|Muslim Magomayev]], is one of his most popular works
* [[Mily Balakirev]]: 3 for solo piano
* [[Samuel Barber]]: the last of Four Songs, for voice and piano, Op. 13 (1938–40) is titled "Nocturne" (to a text by Frederic Prokosch), and this song also exists in a version with orchestra; ''Nocturne (Homage to John Field)'', for piano, Op. 33 (1959)
* [[William Basinski]]: Nocturnes
* [[Arnold Bax]]: Nocturnes, for soprano and orchestra (1911)
*[[Jackson Berkey]]: 24 Nocturnes for solo piano and Four Nocturnes for Orchestra
* [[Georges Bizet]]: ''Premier nocturne en fa majeur'' Op. 2 and Nocturne in D major.
* [[Alexander Borodin]]: his [[String Quartet No. 2 (Borodin)|String Quartet No. 2]] third movement ''Notturno'' contains one of his most popular melodies (1881)
* [[Lili Boulanger]]: ''Nocturne pour violon et piano'' (1911)
* [[Benjamin Britten]]: Nocturne, from ''[[On This Island (Britten)|On This Island]]'', Op. 11
* [[Frédéric Chopin]]: [[Nocturnes (Chopin)|21 for solo piano]], 1 spurious
* [[Carl Czerny]]: 17 for solo piano
* [[Claude Debussy]]: [[Nocturnes (Debussy)|3 for orchestra and choir]], one for solo piano
* [[Norman Dello Joio]]: Two Nocturnes, for piano (E major, F{{Music|sharp}} major, 1946) 
* [[Antonin Dvořák]]: [[Nocturne in B (Dvořák)|Nocturne in B]] for string orchestra (1883)
*[[Roger Evernden]]: 10 Nocturnes for solo piano (2019)
* [[Gabriel Fauré]]: [[Piano music of Gabriel Fauré#Nocturnes|13 for solo piano]]
* [[John Field (composer)|John Field]]: originator of the piano nocturne, wrote [[Nocturnes (Field)|18 of them]]
* [[Irving Fine]]: Notturno, for strings and harp (1950–51)
* [[Mikhail Glinka]]: three nocturnes: E-flat major, "La Separation" in F minor, "Le Regret" (lost)
* [[Louis Moreau Gottschalk]]: four for piano solo, "Pensée poétique" (1852–53), "Solitude" (1856), "Murmures Eoliens" (1860), "La chute des feuilles" (1860) 
* [[Edvard Grieg]]: the fourth piece of his [[Lyric Suite (Grieg)|Lyric Pieces, Op 54]] is a nocturne
* [[Arthur Honegger]]: Nocturne for orchestra (1936, partly based on music from ballet ''Sémiramis'')
* [[Vasily Kalinnikov]]: Nocturne in F{{Music|sharp}} minor, for piano (1894)
* [[Jan Kalivoda]]: Six Nocturnes for Viola and Piano, op. 186
* [[Friedrich Kalkbrenner]]: 4 nocturnes for solo piano
* [[Kevin Keller (composer)|Kevin Keller]]: 10 nocturnes for piano and treatments
* [[Ignace Leybach]]: now known only for his Fifth Nocturne
* [[Lowell Liebermann]]: 11 for solo piano and Nocturne for Orchestra
* [[Malcolm Lipkin]]: Eight Nocturnes for solo piano (1987-2006)
* [[Franz Liszt]]: one for solo piano entitled ''En rêve'' ('In a dream' or 'While dreaming'), another for solo piano entitled ''Pensées'' ('Thoughts'), plus his collection of three [[Liebesträume]] (Love Dreams), a series of three Notturnos, of which no.3 is the most famous, Les cloches de Genève: Nocturne (The Bells of Geneva: Nocturne) in B major 
* [[Sergei Lyapunov]]: Nocturne, for solo piano, in D-flat major, op. 8
* [[Donald Martino]]: Notturno, for six instrumentalists (1973, winner of the 1974 [[Pulitzer Prize for Music]])
* [[Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy]] wrote the [[A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)#incidental music|incidental music]], for [[William Shakespeare]]'s play, ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''
* [[Johann Kaspar Mertz]]: 3 Nocturnes for Guitar, opus 4.
* [[Ernest John Moeran]]: Nocturne, for baritone, chorus, and orchestra (1934, text by Robert Nichols)
* [[Andrzej Panufnik]]: Nocturne for orchestra (1947, rev. 1955)
* [[Francis Poulenc]]: [[FP (Poulenc)#56|eight for solo piano]] (1929)
* [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]]: three for solo piano (1887–1888) and one Op. 10 No. 1 from ''Morceaux de Salon'' (1894)
* [[Ottorino Respighi]]: one piano nocturne as part of his Six Piano Pieces R.44 (1904)
* [[Erik Satie]]: five for solo piano (1919)
* [[Maria Schneider (musician)|Maria Schneider]]: Nocturne, on her album [[Allégresse (album)|Allégresse]] (2000)
* [[Clara Schumann]] (Clara Josephine Wieck): Nocturne in F major Op.6 No.2 from ''Soirées Musicales'' (1819–1896)
* [[Robert Schumann]]: four ''[[Nachtstücke]]''
* [[Alexander Scriabin]]: four nocturnes, including one written for the left hand only (opus 9, 1894)
* [[Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji]]: over 30 for solo piano<ref>{{cite web|author=Marc-André Roberge |url=http://www.mus.ulaval.ca/roberge/srs/04-categ.htm#nocturnes |title=Sorabji Resource Site: Titles of Works Grouped by Categories |publisher=Mus.ulaval.ca |date=2013-05-30 |access-date=2013-06-30}}</ref>
* [[Maria Agata Szymanowska]]: Nocturne in B-flat and Nocturne ''Le Murmure''
* [[Alexandre Tansman]]: Four Nocturnes, for piano (1952)
* [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]: Nocturne (No. 4 of Six Pieces, Op. 19) (1873), and Tchaikovsky's arrangement for cello with small orchestra for Anatoly Brandukov, from a transcription for Wilhelm Fitzenhagen (1888)
* [[Sigismond Thalberg]]: 7 nocturnes for piano (Opp. 16, 21, 28, 51 and 1 without op. number)
* [[Edgard Varèse]]: ''Nocturnal'', for soprano, bass, chorus, and small orchestra (text from Anaïs Nin: ''The House of Incest'', 1961), and ''Nocturnal II (Nuit)'', for soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, 1 or 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, percussion, and double bass (text from Anaïs Nin: ''The House of Incest'', 1961–65)
* [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]: Three Nocturnes, for baritone, semi-chorus, and orchestra (text by Walt Whitman, 1908); "nocturne", the first of ''Three Poems by Walt Whitman'' (1925)
* [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]]: Nocturne for solo piano, from Hommage à Chopin (1947)
* [[Almeida Prado]]: 14 nocturnes for solo piano (1985-1991)
* [[Franz Strauss]]: Nocturno, Op. 7 for horn (1864)