La Nuit, Op.21 (Huss, Henry Holden)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1
Composition Year	1903 or earlier
Genre Categories	Pieces; For piano; Scores featuring the piano; For 1 player

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Publisher. Info.	New York: G. Schirmer, 1904. Plate 16840.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes	Original scans: 600dpi grayscale images approximately 6100 by 7800 pixels. Converted to black and white, cleaned up, deskewed.
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Work Title	La Nuit
Alternative. Title	Poem for the Piano
Composer	Huss, Henry Holden
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	Op.21
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	IHH 4
Key	C-sharp minor
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1903 or earlier
First Publication.	1904
Copyright Information	Possibly public domain in EU and other 70 pma territories. This item, which is in the public domain in its country of origin, is likewise in the public domain in countries which apply the rule of the shorter term. All EU countries apply the rule of the shorter term in general. Note that in some cases this rule may be overridden by a treaty with the source country (especially the United States) and/or may not apply to works which fell into the public domain in their source country due to a failure to renew copyright or comply with other formalities.
Dedication	Miss Mildred Barnes
Average DurationAvg. Duration	3-6 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	Piano
Extra Information	Doesn't reach the dominant of its home key until bar 4 or a cadence on the tonic until bar 6, but it is in C-sharp minor.

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Orchestrated by Huss by 1941 (according to Greene). A manuscript score of 21 pages and parts for this version (requiring piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes (2nd taking English horn), 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, harp and strings) is in the Fleisher Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia.