He parodied Clementi and Wagner in a set of piano pieces which opens with "Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum" and was written for his daughter.
He used parallel chords, or "planing", in a piano work inspired by the myth of Ys, his prelude "The Sunken Cathedral". He parodied Clementi and Wagner in a set of piano pieces which opens with "Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum" and was written for his daughter. Another piano work by this composer ends with a passepied, but is most famous for a D-flat major third movement inspired by a Verlaine poem. For 10 points, the Children's Corner suite was written by this French Impressionist whose Suite bergamesque includes "Clair de lune".
He used parallel chords, or "planing", in a piano work inspired by the myth of Ys, his prelude "The Sunken Cathedral".
Claude {Debussy}