Chopin: Nocturnes Bound EditionTime and again, Chopin succeeded in giving different piano music genres their own individual characters, whether etudes, preludes, waltzes, scherzi or nocturnes. The Irishman John Field had already composed over 20 nocturnes, which presumably greatly influenced Chopin. The latter continued to develop the light, song like piano writing and created works whose dreamy, longing atmosphere came to embody Chopins music. Our volume contains the works that