Chopin-Servais - Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2 (For Cello and Piano)
  • Chopin-Servais - Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2 (For Cello and Piano)

Chopin-Servais - Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2 (For Cello and Piano)

Chopin’s Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9 No. 2, is one of the most beloved works in the piano repertoire and almost synonymous with Chopin’s name. Like many Romantic virtuosos, the Belgian cellist-composer François Servais Read more

Chopin’s Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9 No. 2, is one of the most beloved works in the piano repertoire and almost synonymous with Chopin’s name. Like many Romantic virtuosos, the Belgian cellist-composer François Servais recognized Chopin’s melodic genius and brought this famous nocturne into the cello repertoire.

Servais transcribed the work for cello and piano in D major, a key especially well suited to the cello. His version follows Chopin’s original closely, more so than later transcriptions by Pablo Sarasate and David Popper. In three passages, Servais provides both an “easy” and a “difficult” option for the cellist, with the difficult version remaining closest to Chopin’s original text.

Servais’s transcription was highly popular in its time: from 1863 to 1938, Schott printed more than 7,000 copies. It was also recorded in the 1910s by cellists including Anton Hekking, Joseph Hollman, George Rogovoy, and Thomas Weist-Hill.

This edition includes a piano score, a cello part with Servais’s original fingerings, and a separate cello part with fingerings and bowings by Yuriy Leonovich.

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