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Born in Dublin, Field first studied the piano under his father, who was a violinist, and later under Tommaso Giordani . He later went to London where he studied under Muzio Clementi. He toured Europe both to demonstrate the pianos that Clementi made and as a concert pianist before settling in St Petersburg in Russia where he was a popular performer and teacher. He died in MoscowMoscow ( Russian: Moskva capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 878. The city's population is rapidly increasing, with 11. 2 million inhabitants counted in 2004. The city is in the federal district called Central Russia (which is.
Field is best remembered as the first composer to write nocturnes, single movement pieces for piano which were not in a fixed form (as the minuetA minuet sometimes spelt menuet is a dance for two persons, usually in 3/4 time. The word was adapted, under the influence of the Italian minuetto from the French menuet meaning small, pretty, delicate, a diminutive of menu from the Latin minutus menuetto or fugueFor the use of the word in psychology see fugue state In music, a fugue is a type of piece written in counterpoint for several independent musical voices. A fugue begins with its subject (a brief musical theme) stated by one of the voices playing alone. are) and which maintained a single mood throughout. These pieces greatly influenced Frederic Chopin, who went on to write 21 nocturnes himself. Inasmuch as Field's nocturnes were the first single-movement piano character pieces, they can be seen as important forerunners of many other RomanticRomantic music can be defined as music in which expression of feelings is given more importance than formal balance and internal order. The use of the phrase in this sense is generally limited to the context of European classical music. Although there are composers' works, among them Felix Mendelssohnsymphony at the young age of fifteen. Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, always known simply as Felix Mendelssohn ( February 3, 1809 November 4, 1847) was a German composer of the early Romantic period. He was perhaps the greatest child prodigy aft, Robert SchumannThis article is about the German composer. For the German-born French politician, see Robert Schuman; for the youngest person to go to the north and south poles, see Robert Schumann (record-breaker . For the American composer, see William Schuman. Robert, Franz Liszt and Edvard Grieg.
Field also wrote seven piano concertos of which the best known is probably the second (1811).