The impulse to create something new from something pre-existing is not rare. Composers have been doing it for centuries. A work based in another composer's creation is often a way to pay homage to that composer. New works based on a composer's own creation often result from a commission or an opportunity for performance. And, sometimes, as perhaps in the case with Griffes' arrangement of Offenbach's "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" the composer simply does it for the pleasure of it. Griffes "Belle nuit", dating from ca. 1910, is a charming and sophisticated composition, as a natural and idiomatic in Griffes' piano version as it was for orchestra in Offenbach's original.

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Barcarolle, Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour for Piano (Offenbach Jacques)