Which artist described some of his paintings as nocturnes and symphonies?
Nocturnes (Debussy) abandoned both pieces when close to finishing them. Without their manuscripts, there is no certainty that material from either of these works was reused in "Nocturnes", but it remains a distinct possibility. The three movements are: The three movements were inspired by a series of impressionist paintings, also entitled "Nocturnes" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Debussy wrote an "introductory note" to "Nocturnes" as follows: "Nuages" and "Fêtes" were premiered by Camille Chevillard with the Lamoureux Orchestra on 9 December 1900 in Paris. The complete suite was first heard under the same forces on 27 October 1901. The initial performances met
Night in paintings (Western art) re-titled as "nocturnes"—night scenes of the harbor painted with a blue or light green palette. Later in London, he painted several more nocturnes over the next ten years, many of the River Thames and of Cremorne Gardens, a pleasure park famous for its frequent fireworks displays, which presented a novel challenge to paint. In his maritime nocturnes, Whistler used highly thinned paint as a ground with lightly flicked color to suggest ships, lights, and shore line. Some of the Thames paintings also show compositional and thematic similarities with the Japanese prints of Hiroshige. In 1877 Whistler sued the art critic