This composer wrote a work, premiered by conductor Gustave Doret, which opens with a flute solo containing chromatic descents and ascents.
This composer wrote a work, premiered by conductor Gustave Doret, which opens with a flute solo containing chromatic descents and ascents. This composer ended one of his suites with a fourth-movement French courtly dance called a passepied. During the rehearsals of one of this composer's pieces, the violinists tied handkerchiefs on the end of their bows in protest. This composer, who wrote three "symphonic sketches" that include "the play of the (*) waves," wrote a piece representing moonlight found in his Suite Bergamasque. Another of his pieces is a symphonic poem based on a Stephane Mallarmé poem. For 10 points, name this French composer of the Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, La Mer, and "Clair de lune."
This composer wrote a work, premiered by conductor Gustave Doret, which opens with a flute solo containing chromatic descents and ascents.
Claude Debussy [or Achille-Claude Debussy]