Claude Debussy's most concentrated and brilliant orchestral work, La Mer, is one of the supreme achievements in the symphonic literature. It is a work of such imagination that it stands apart from ...

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Rob Cowan chooses his top recordings of Debussy’s seascape, which helped establish the composer’s reputation as the founding father of musical modernism We have been writing about classical music for ...

“I love the sea and I have listened to it passionately,” Debussy wrote. But he was some distance away from it when he began work on La Mer during the summer of 1903, as he was in landlocked Burgundy.

Debussy was a master of orchestral and solo piano music. From Clair de Lune to La mer, here are the best pieces of classical music the composer ever wrote. From lazy woodland creatures on a hot summer ...

Debussy’s masterpiece provoked a revolution in music, but one brought about by subtlety and intimacy, dwelling on the sheer beauty of musical timbre. In 1894, Claude Debussy’s quietly revolutionary ...

Debussy’s La mer (1905) La mer is the greatest seascape in music, and also the greatest example of how the sounds of the natural world can become music. “We don’t pay enough attention to the thousand ...

Debussy's fantastical, Impressionistic vision of the Mediterranean sea is one of the great masterpieces of the symphonic literature. Charles Munch... Waves of Sound: Debussy's La Mer Waves of Sound: ...