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Subject: (Eight) Nocturnes for the King of Naples
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Date: Sun, 30-Dec-84 07:39:10 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 30 07:39:10 1984
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Keywords: F. J. Haydn, E. Wilson


	Haydn wrote "Eight Nocturnes for the King of Naples."  I looked for
a recording of it, but could not find any even in such place as Tower records
in NYC.  It is not listed in the Penguin Guide (which is pretty poor on
Haydn...) but two recordings are mentioned in its French counterpart, which,
by the way, is so much better than the Penguin.  So I have not heard the piece.

	Edmund Wilson wrote "Nocturnes for the King of Naples", which
has 8 chapters;  each of which seems to have some formal structure, beside
interesting shifts in style.  It is suffused with a dreamy, autumnal (or
nocturnal?) atmosphere.  It is available in Penguin (ignore the ugly and
vulgar cover).

	Does anybody know both works to the extent of pointing how Wilson's
novel mirrors its musical counterpart?