Originally sub-titled En forme de Nocturne, the Morceau d'Expression is an original composition. Adlais's newly set edition makes this beautiful piece available for the first time since the mid-nineteeth century. The son of a regimental bandmaster of Bohemian origin and his French wife, Robert Nicolas Charles Bochsa was born in the garrison town of Montmédy in Northern France. There is no doubt that his first impressionable years - spent surrounded by the sound of martial music and by the pomp,