Alphabet associations - I

[french frank]

Come on guys! What is the most popular one?

Die Fledermaus?

[Dave2002]

Sounds good to me. Now, when do such things come out?

[doversoul1]

Chopin did write nocturnes…

[Dave2002]

Hint: Maybe what we're looking for is not quite a Nocturne, but almost perhaps.

[Anna]

Die Fledermaus?

OMIG, frenchie is joining in AA. Well, can you connect Fledermaus with a "Domicile for domestic sexual abuse is unfinished in the Swinging era?" I am sure I cannot.

See you'll in the morning!

[Dave2002]

Doversoul was very close to the answer a few steps back. Only a couple of letters out in fact. If you can get that, then maybe figuring out why will make sense of the other clues.

I intended this to be slightly challenging, but not much more than that. Sorry if I've overdone it, or not quite played by the rules.

[Dave2002]

Mercia

You've used the very word in your post. Now, are there pieces called that?

[Dave2002]

No, it's not night. It has 9 letters.

[mercia]

I told you it was like pulling teeth

let's try nocturnal

[Dave2002]

Is the right answer!

Sorry about the teeth pulling.

Now you need to find a few pieces called Nocturnal.

[mercia]

well Britten's Nocturnal after John Dowland for guitar dates from 1963, so I'm discounting that

[Dave2002]

What's the opus number? Note the question mark in the question!

[mercia]

a-ha! opus 70, I must look back and find your original question

so just one more nocturnal to find? from the 1960's?

[mercia]

I think this would be the chap

Edgard Varese - Nocturnal for soprano, male chorus and orchestra, text adapted from The House of Incest by Anaïs Nin (1961), revised and completed posthumously by Chou Wen-Chung (1968)

as is often the way, once the solution has been reached, I fully understand the original clues
some nice red herrings

[Dave2002]

Bang on. The only missing bit is the dedicated player.