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Nocturnal

Composer: 
Genre: 
Χορωδιακά έργα
Instrumentation: 
orch, chorus of basses, S
Date of composition - Description: 
1959-61
First Performance: 
New York, Town Hall, 1 May 1961, cond. Robert Craft, Donna Precht (soprano)
Availability: 
Ναί
Information: 
unfinished: text from Anais Nin's 'House of incest', interspersed with vocal syllables supplied by Varèse himself: completed after Varèse's death from composer's notes and sketches by Chou Wen-chung (pubd. by Colfranc in 1969)