Paul Mauriat's Nocturne is a piece written for orchestra and for piano solo. In Japan it is called The Aoi Nocturne (蒼いノクターン).

Paul Mauriat (1925 - 2006) was a French composer and orchestra leader, who specialized in the easy listening genre. He conducted Le Grand Orchestre de Paul Mauriat, and is best known in the United States for his million-selling remake of André Popp's Love is Blue, which was a number-one hit for five weeks in 1968. His other recordings include El Bimbo, Toccata, and Penelope. He sold over forty-million albums worldwide.

He had a special relationship with Japan, where he held twenty-eight tours from 1969 to 1998. In the early to mid-1980s, Paul Mauriat appeared in several Japanese coffee and wine television commercials, which featured music from his orchestra.

He was awarded the Grand Prix (Grand Prize) from the French recording industry, a MIDEM trophy, and in 1997 received the Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres award from the French Ministry of Culture. Certain kinds of saxophones are called "P. Mauriat Saxophones".

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