One piano piece by this composer quotes from the Prelude to Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, adding laughing grace-note figures.
One piano piece by this composer quotes from the Prelude to Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, adding laughing grace-note figures. A wordless women's chorus appears in the "Sirens" movement of another piece. In addition to  "Golliwogg's Cakewalk" and Nocturnes for orchestra, he wrote a collection of piano pieces that includes "The Sunken Cathedral" and one that depicts fireworks and quotes the Marseillaise; those are his preludes for piano. The first movement of a piece subtitled "three symphonic sketches orchestra" depicts from dawn to noon in the title location, and another was inspired by a poem by Mallarmé. For 10 points, identify this composer of La mer and Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, an impressionist.
One piano piece by this composer quotes from the Prelude to Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, adding laughing grace-note figures.
Claude Debussy