- Likely written ~ 1924, Gershwin’s Sleepless Night is a short, lesser-known piece for piano. Gershwin originally titled the work as the prelude, “Melody No. 17.”
- Sleepless Night wasn’t published until 1946, nearly a decade after the composer’s death.
- It’s possible that Gershwin had set this piece aside to be reconfigured as a song for voice and piano.1
Sources
- Alicia Zizzo, “Introduction to Performance Notes,” Complete Preludes For Piano (1996), accessed October 8, 2025, https://el-atril.com/partituras/Gershwin/Complete%20Preludes%20For%20Piano.pdf.
Cut IDs
27574