A piano suite by him opens with a piece imitating a Clementi etude, and ends with a piece that quotes Tristan und Isolde in its middle section and imitates ragtime in its outer sections.
One piano piece by this composer opens with the pianist playing E-B bare fifths with the right hand while the left hand plays a grace-note-laden pentatonic melody in E major and 3/4 time. A piano suite by him opens with a piece imitating a Clementi etude, and ends with a piece that quotes Tristan und Isolde in its middle section and imitates ragtime in its outer sections. This composer of "Serenade of the Doll," "Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum," and "Golliwog's Cakewalk" wrote a piece that takes its title from a Verlaine poem about moonlight and adapted a Mallarme poem about a flute-playing forest god into an orchestral tone poem. For 10 points, name this French composer of the Children's Corner suite, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, and Clair de Lune.
One piano piece by this composer opens with the pianist playing E-B bare fifths with the right hand while the left hand plays a grace-note-laden pentatonic melody in E major and 3/4 time.
Claude-Achille Debussy