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Field, John
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Field, John, 1782–1837, Irish composer and pianist. In London he studied with Clementi Clementi, Muzio , 1752–1832, Italian composer, pianist, and conductor, b. Rome. He wrote more than 100 keyboard sonatas, which set the definitive form, and he had an enormous influence on almost everything concerning the piano.
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, with whom he later toured Europe. In 1804 he settled in Russia. Field was a successful pianist and his style of composition was influential. Chopin Chopin, Frédéric François , 1810–49, composer for the piano, b. near Warsaw, of French and Polish parentage. His lyrical, often melancholy, compositions brought romantic piano music to unprecedented expressive heights.
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's nocturnes were modeled after those of Field.

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Manager and club chairman John Field said, "It is great to know that, in such hard times financially, people such as Ann and Gallery still have faith in what the girls can do.
He made the piano nocturne his own, to the point where it is now almost forgotten that it was not he but the Irishman John Field who invented it.
Durham Cathedral: Light of the North, by John Field with photography by Malcolm Crowthers (Third Millennium Publishing, pounds 35).
 
 
 
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