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La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre (French for The sea, three symphonic sketches for orchestra), or simply La mer (The Sea), L. 109, CD. 111, is an orchestral composition by the French composer Claude Debussy. Composed between 1903 and 1905, the piece premiered in Paris in October 1905.
22 lip 2014 · «Numerous representations of the sea are woven into the work of Claude Debussy (1862–1918). The French composer regularly referenced his awe of the sea and its power, and even noted that he had "intended for the noble career of a sailor" in a 1912 letter to close friend and composer André Messager.
Composed between 1903 and 1905, La mer is a uniquely vivid and arresting evocation, in three movements, of the sea's ever-changing moods, eddies, and mysteries, using an unmistakably Impressionistic musical template.
16 maj 2018 · Claude Debussy’s La Mer (“The Sea”) is not a literal portrait of the ocean. There is no “program” or story, as we might hear in Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony or a Strauss tone poem. Instead, La Mer takes us deep into the world of atmosphere, metaphor and synesthesia (a blurring of senses).
Debussy created a soulless sea quite deliberately. This is not an element imbued with a spirit or a narrative as in Bax’s Garden of Fand let alone being a human response to the sea as in Vaughan-Williams’ A Sea Symphony (which was being written at exactly the same time).
10 sty 2011 · The sea. It's where life on earth began. And by some measure, Claude Debussy's "La Mer" (the Sea) is where 20th century music began. Completed in 1905, it's an orchestral masterpiece, an amazingly complex piece of music with a disarmingly simple name.
The sea's influence seems to have been with Debussy from his earliest years, for references to it recur like a leitmotif through his correspondence and writings.
