John Field

The article of Boris Syainas, The Birth of the Nocturne, acquaints readers with the life and creative work of John Field, an Irish virtuoso pianist and composer. Field established a completely new ideal of artistic expressiveness that replaced the mere devotion to technical brilliance; he cultivated the possibilities of the piano for manifestation of the most intimate emotions. For Field, the piano was an instrument of musical poetry, and his Concertos were vehicles for the display of his new lyrical style.