This composer opened a piece for solo piano with a chromatically descending whole tone cadenza and used a series of open fifths to evoke church bells in a programmatic prelude depicting a "Sunken Cathedral."
This composer opened a piece for solo piano with a chromatically descending whole tone cadenza and used a series of open fifths to evoke church bells in a programmatic prelude depicting a "Sunken Cathedral." This composer of "The Happy Island" included a piece parodying a leitmotif from Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, "Golliwogg's Cakewalk", in his Children's Corner suite. A chromatic flute passage begins a work by this man inspired by a Stéphane Mallarmé poem, while a piece contained in his Suite Bergamasque was famously inspired by moonlight. For 10 points, name this composer of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and "Clair de Lune."
This composer opened a piece for solo piano with a chromatically descending whole tone cadenza and used a series of open fifths to evoke church bells in a programmatic prelude depicting a "Sunken Cathedral."
Achille-Claude Debussy