Claude Debussy: La Mer – First Movement
La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre (French for The sea, three symphonic sketches for orchestra), or simply La Mer (ie The Sea), is an orchestral composition (L 109) by the French impressionist composer Claude Debussy. It was started in 1903 in France and completed in 1905 on the English Channel coast in Eastbourne. The premiere was given by the Lamoureux Orchestra under the direction of Camille Chevillard on 15 October 1905 in Paris. The piece was initially not well received – partly because of inadequate rehearsal and partly because of Parisian outrage over Debussy’s having recently left his first wife for the singer Emma Bardac[citation needed]. But it soon became one of Debussy’s most admired and frequently performed orchestral works, and has become more so in the ensuing century.- wikipedia enjoy 
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Ademas fue un maestre..
bello!
@S1587915G Debussy had a lot of influence from the Paris International exposition im 1900 where he saw javanese music and stuff… he got interested by that styleand explored it! So. there’s a lot of oriental in this piece… Debussy Rules
The book The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio brought me here, right now. Apparently this piece has fibonacci’s sequences in it and I came to listen to them! Enjoyable even without this knowledge
to Debussy lovers. maybe you would like this concerto.
just write the word FREAKOLLO, and you would get to a 2 parts concerto enjoy.
does anyone know what orchestra and conductor this be ?
4:41 is my favorite part of the entire piece. the cellos have a quality of sound that make me feel as if i’m setting off on a voyage or something as glorious.
8:11 to the end is my favourite part
@c1130762
Glad you agree. He might be, I suppose, you never know.
It’s interesting to note that he was very fond of Asian art, by the way.
ej chuj
@S1587915G I entirely agree with you! he might be a chinese poet from the Tang dynasty in his past life, the way I interpret it =)
Is it me, or is there something Oriental about this music? Even Debussy looks a bit Oriental in this portrait.
la merde
Years ago when I had to study this for A level I didn’t enjoy it. Now I think it’s wonderful.
I am going to see the Minnesota Orchestra perform this tonight as part of their Inside the Classics series. They breakdown the piece in the first half of the show, then perform it in the second half. 4 minutes into the piece and I like it so far.
7:50-on is the best!
same here. This sorta reminds me of some old movie about Sinbad or Charlton Heston standing over the Red Sea
you know in germany sea is meer, its almost “ze” same
This is a beautiful composition, I can really visualize the sea.
a szinek zeneje…
egy ujabb csodaja a XX. szazadnak…
el impresionismo le agrada a todos ahora…pero 80 años antes era repudiado.
pobre Debussy,las que le toco pasar.
bravo por Él.
I just LOVE classical music.. and I love Debussy, this was beautiful!
esta obra es mágica, muy linda
yo tambien voy mañana!!!!
Oh my goodness, this slays me. Beautiful.