He produced nocturnes with phonic variation

I believe the answer is:

chopin

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'he produced nocturnes' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'phonic variation' is the wordplay.
'variation' is an anagram indicator.
'phonic' with letters rearranged gives 'CHOPIN'.

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(Other definitions for chopin that I've seen before include "Double centenarian" , "Polish composer who had affair with George Sand" , "Frederic ......, 19th century Polish composer, mostly for piano" , "Polish virtuoso composer" , "Great Polish composer of phonic kind" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.

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