Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the Barnes Foundation / Chopin

🎨The Barnes Foundation is home to the world's largest collection of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919).

📀Music: Nocturne in E minor, Op. posth.
72 No. 1, WN 23, was composed by Frédéric Chopin for solo piano in 1826.

It was Chopin's first composed nocturne, although it was the nineteenth to be published, in 1855, along with two other early works: a funeral march in C minor and three écossaises. The composition features an unbroken line of quaver triplets in the left hand set against a slow melody of minims, crotchets, quaver duplets and triplets.