This composer adapted a pattern from a Modest Mussorgsky song, Sunless, for an orchestral suite whose first movement opens with clarinets and bassoons playing alternating fifths and thirds, that movement is titled Nuages ["noo-AZH"], or Clouds in this composer's suite Nocturnes.
This composer adapted a pattern from a Modest Mussorgsky song, Sunless, for an orchestral suite whose first movement opens with clarinets and bassoons playing alternating fifths and thirds, that movement is titled Nuages ["noo-AZH"], or Clouds in this composer's suite Nocturnes. A poem by Stephen MallarmÃ© inspired this composer to write a piece which opens with a solo (*) flute playing an almost-chromatic scale from a C sharp down an augmented fourth. This composer, who disliked the term "impressionist," wrote another naturalistic work whose second movement scherzo is titled "Play of the Waves," that movement is part of La Mer ["MAIR"]. For 10 points, name this French composer of pieces like Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Clair de Lune.
This composer adapted a pattern from a Modest Mussorgsky song, Sunless, for an orchestral suite whose first movement opens with clarinets and bassoons playing alternating fifths and thirds, that movement is titled Nuages ["noo-AZH"], or Clouds in this composer's suite Nocturnes.
Claude Debussy 