My mother used to tell me a bed story of the Sunken Cathedral while playing this record so my dreams were full of fantasy. What a great memory of this Music I have.
When I hear this, I imagine myself floating in the middle of the ocean, it's freezing and I'm close to death but I feel warm, and the stars and galaxies seem to be in sharper focus because there is no light pollution at all. Then as I sink, I don't know if I'm hallucinating, entering the afterlife or whether it's all real, but there is a grandiose and ancient cathedral, I swim toward it, and am awed by how such a structure with its complex geometry and architecture could have ever possibly been built.I marvel, and then the music stops. I'm back.
Whatever, Fuck Usernames Someone's ruining other people's imagination because they can't write anything better. Seriously, just let people enjoy things.
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@dyrkness Debussy wrote this piece inspired by a story about the Cathedral of Ys, which sank into the sea and whos bells still can be heard through the sea-mist.
And in northweat rennessee the rell the tale of an Indian village of Ca Lapan, suddenly inundated in December 1812 by a great quake, killing all who dwelt there. To tjs day fishermen and hunters can hear an eerie chanting arising from the depths of Reelfoot Lake.
No rays from the holy heaven come down On the long night-time of that town; But light from out the lurid sea Streams up the turrets silently- Gleams up the pinnacles far and free- Up domes-up spires-up kingly halls- Up fanes-up Babylon-like walls- Up shadowy long-forgotten bowers Of sculptured ivy and stone flowers-. Up many and many a marvelous shrine Whose wreathed friezes intertwine The viol, the violet, and the vine. excerpt from "The City in the Sea" By E.A Poe
I love the Sunken Cathedral. It's the first time I've ever heard music take me on a physical journey. Hear the water? The swells of the crests & waves? Claude Debussy has done so many wonderful works but I think this has to be my favorite. God Bless All, Aylagh
Noble 6 Daphnis and Chloe isn’t a symphony it is a ballet that premiered the same night as a riot that broke out over some ballet called the rite of spring by a young Stravinsky that premiered. Ravel was more about orchestration rather than tone poems.
I'm a fumbling, new piano player, so my opinion may be naive and uninformed; but I have been a musician for twenty-five of my thirty-six short years, and this version does it for me. There are many talented interpretations of this piece, and all of them are beautiful in their own way, but whenever I listen to a new one, I go straight to the passage at 1:56 and compare it to this one. So far, this interpretation is my forever favorite: I love the feel of the staggering tempo, the sparkling anticipation in the treble notes, and the way the left hand just...THUNDERS, all the way down, to the final, ringing, resounding chord at the bottom. I FEEL the power of this enormous cathedral triumphantly breaking the surface. There's real weight, real gravitas behind it, if you will. I really appreciate Thiollier's delicate hand in that passage as well. He modulates the treble chords there, blending them in, getting them out of the way so I can hear dat bass, as the kids might say. In other performances where I can better hear them, it sounds clanging, jarring to me. I do love me those resonant, thundering low notes. Exquisite performance.
This music seems to take me to a strange place, it's like I'm falling to the bottom of the ocean and then you feel like you've fallen asleep and become a soul as you go down to the bottom of the sea, the feeling that you're going to heaven and everything is peaceful🕊️.
Silent and billowing, Notre Dame is consumed in flames. Something about it is peaceful. No opposition, no defenses. Just a last song, the last notes it will ever hear. The sunken cathedral, fallen, never to be seen again. The girl picks up her phone to call her father. "It's burning," she screams as she weeps. "It's burning to the ground, it's burning right now." She can do nothing for the church as its spire collapses and it softly dies. She looks up into the night sky filled with white smoke and her childish heart just couldn't believe that the stars were out. She just couldn't believe it.
That voiced figure at 1:39... I've heard it all throughout my life. The church about two kilometers away from us plays it every time someone gets married. It's so rejoiceful for me. :)
The first time I listened to this piece, I liked it, and felt it was ok. And now, the more I listen to it, the more it haunts me. As haunting as would be the ringing bells of a sunken cathedral.
Bubbles emerged out of the piano with every note, floating around the various species of fish and corals. The echoes of the melody resounded inside the cathedral, calling forth memories of her past glory above the surface and impregnating the walls with a sempiternal beauty that will last past it's decay into the voice of the sea.
When I hear this, I imagine myself inside a large temple with sandstone and gold embroidery. As the music goes on, I walk by many large pillars, holding the temple together, and see amber lighting (like September colors). I walk into this light and see it's source is from the top of a long vertical stairway that goes upwards. I walk up the stairs, the whole temple behind shakes and plunderes as I make it to the top. I in vision freedom, and find myself looking down over a balcony which stretches down a deep cliff with a desert at the bottom. Though water lies parallel, a lake, bellow the horizon which sits below red sky. It glimmers and leaves with reflection opon the lake, like crystal.
Despite its stylistic diversity, Debussy was above all a composer of expressionist aesthetics, always close to drama, depth, anguish and the deep and tormented vision of life that seems to emanate from the metaphysics of man as of his very deep nature !
The fire at Notre Dame brought me here. 😢 When I've heard this tune, I've imagined the inside of a cathedral in the aftermath of a flood. Wooden pews are covered in water. Some paper and debris float around. A few rays of sunlight penetrate the windows into an otherwise darkened scene. There's a sense of greatness smashed down and destroyed. ⛪ 🔥 💧 🎶 😔
Melanie Lee it’s a European tradition of the cathedral or church that has a tolling bell in what was once land but is now the sea. In the UK there are loads of submerged churches or cathedrals. Isle of Wight has one as do some counties that border the North Sea. You are correct with your analogy. The piece is meant to describe a fog and in that fog a long forgotten cathedral appears from the fog and you hear the bells and choir and monks singing. But the story you have added is another interpretation of what this piece is meant to describe. But yes Notre Dame is most likely the basis of the piece.
Bonita foto, que GRAN COMPOSICIÓN.Si la gente seria capaz de valorar y disfrutar de esta música, la sociedad sería distinta. Hasta el que cree que la valora y realiza comentarios que no son mas que quejas burguesas y obsevaciones que sobran.
I can imagine these church spires protruding from the ocean floor and various kinds of colorful fish, maybe even some mermaid swimming harmoniously in this imaginary musical world, the notes and sounds echoing and coming to the surface like air bubbles. Very aquatic sounding composition.
According to legend, one day every century the cathedral rises from the sea, only to sink back beneath the waves at nightfall. This is reflected in the dynamics of Debussy's music.
The original Devil's Lake, North Dakota is submerged. Many people dive on the old steeple there, frozen in time. Many others fish the depths, safely from the surface. All the childhood memories, dreams, buried in ice...
In my mind's eye, the cathedral lies in a warm part of the sea, bathed in green and gold light that filters down from the sun through a kelp forest. My limbs, my hair and my mind drift with the current, carressed and buoyed up by the undulating kelp fronds, utterly at peace.
very descriptive. I just hear bells in the higher but also more interestingly the lower register resonate with such a rich, fluid and sustained nature as if underwater (created by the extensive pedal use) but also as if standing in the resonant and achoustic interior of a normal cathedral. and the punched chords just reflect the firm standing of such a massive and glorious building. love the way the piece ends as we leave the cathedral somewhere in the deep dark depths. that's just my take. so deep ;)
I am doing this piece in my school orchestra and it just sounds even more beautiful with violins and piano. the first time I heard this I thought 'wow'
i cant explain the profound emotion i feel when i listen to this song. in my mind i imagine the mystique and terror of coming face to face with a long-forgotten god.
I just heard this incredible piece played by a visiting pianist to our retirement community (I hired him) who explained the mythological story of the sunken cathedral. What an amazing work. I'm glad I could find it here to listen again. Many thanks.
Impressionism, Impressionism, you ALL have got it wrong. Debussy had a moment of clarity, a revelation of sorts. The Legend of Ys may have been the inspiration, but the music told and still tells a larger story. Impressionism is just a pigeon hole for a work of genius. The title of the song was put at the end so that the musician could play what he felt and read. The music was a conduit for the imagination, not a predetermined conclusion. Impressionism is the precise opposite. It assumes you already have a picture in mind, and simply fills in the details.
Já vi pessoas chorando durante uma execução dessa música.Era uma preparação para uma prova de Bacharelado em Piano.O estudante errou no final,mas todos já haviam derramado suas lágrimas
Nice and full music. Very beautiful music.. For solo piano. It was published in 1910 as the tenth prelude in Debussy’s first of two volumes of twelve piano preludes each. It is characteristic of Debussy in its form, harmony, and content
Vin Mitchell & Guitar Madness (an outgrowth of the Berklee Guitar Department Ensemble Program), five "line" guitars, a rhythm guitar, bass, and drums (I was Guitar V), had a glorious arrangement of this piece, by Vin, in its book... ...and it was the only piece in our repertoire that we never recorded. Impressionism at its most Impressionistic, and although it's not his best-known work... ...this may be Debussy's masterpiece.
Debussy's La Cathedrale Engloutie inspired a remarkable extended series of paintings by Ceri Richards, painted between 1957 and 1962. Three were shown at the 1962 Venice Biennale - Richards represented Britain and won the Einaudi Painting Prize. Paintings from the series are held by the Tate, the British Council, the Welsh National Museum, the Ulster Museum, the New South Wales Art Gallery, the Glynn Vivian Gallery in Swansea, Pallant House in Chichester and the Aberdeen Gallery.
Debussy spent the last years of his life trying to write an opera based on Poe's Fall of the House of Usher. Debussy claimed he "lived in the House of Usher". An important part of French artistic culture was Poesque, eg Baudelaire, Mallarme, Redon, Huysmans, Debussy. Like yourself, the first thing I thought of on hearing this was City in the Sea.
I am learning about 20th century composers in school and Claude Debussy is the main impressionist composer. He didn't like being called an impressionistic composer but he was one.
He's my favorite composer in general. He did something unique, original, and very clever in a way that is beautiful and touching and easily accessible. To do all those things at once is an astonishing feat.
This is a fairly particular piece to me personally. I often have vivid imagination and I also can interrupt a piece such as this clearly. However, since this piece is made to reflect being “underwater,” I can’t help but notice that I don’t necessarily picture it that way. I interpret the piece as a solemn one, one proposing many “answer-like” ideals. It’s just a piece that is meant to show that we need know knowledge of the future, for we can endure the present with every sweet sense of beauty imaginable, step by step, song by song, person by person, and love by love.
I am remembered by this. A temple that under the dam now. my childhood memory. I hope, some time I meet that temple and village again. from japanese countryside...
This really captures a cathedral underwater and up and back down again, heh. I'll have to revisit this piece sometime soon. I've let myself become rusty, heh... like a sunken ship underwater. Le bateaux engloutie, hehe.
I can think of a really good animation for this right now: the pianist is playing in an underwater cathedral and as he nears the pieces end to glass in the cathedral starts to break and as he goes into the final few minute he water rushes in and the pianist s playing underwater and when the piece ends he drowns and drifts away from the piano.
Was turned onto this particular song when I read it mentioned in the Murakami book, "Norwegian Wood". Personally, out of the Debussy I've listened to, this is my favorite as it is so contemplative.
I played this when I was a sophomore in college. That was back in 1977. Wow, time flies.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Also was listening to Debussy a lot in the '70s. I am probably about the same age as you. I loved this piece especially.
You’re old
1970, sophomore in high school. Let’s do Petite Suite together on Zoom!
Thank you
My mother used to tell me a bed story of the Sunken Cathedral while playing this record so my dreams were full of fantasy. What a great memory of this Music I have.
Debussy's music has the unique quality of almost stopping the world and imploring it to listen. Simply breathtakingly beautiful.
When I hear this, I imagine myself floating in the middle of the ocean, it's freezing and I'm close to death but I feel warm, and the stars and galaxies seem to be in sharper focus because there is no light pollution at all.
Then as I sink, I don't know if I'm hallucinating, entering the afterlife or whether it's all real, but there is a grandiose and ancient cathedral, I swim toward it, and am awed by how such a structure with its complex geometry and architecture could have ever possibly been built.I marvel, and then the music stops. I'm back.
Whatever, Fuck Usernames
Someone's ruining other people's imagination because they can't write anything better.
Seriously, just let people enjoy things.
I dreamed of this!
Heffsta02 man that sounds so peaceful and beautiful
@Whatever, Fuck Usernames Let them be. Go be negative elsewhere.
You should quit drugs.
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@dyrkness Debussy wrote this piece inspired by a story about the Cathedral of Ys, which sank into the sea and whos bells still can be heard through the sea-mist.
one day the Cathedral shall rise and the Great Ones shall dance amidst the pounding of morbid bells...
@@radiozelaza haha that's what I thought about
Good to know
@@radiozelaza but Ys will rise when Paris will drown
And in northweat rennessee the rell the tale of an Indian village of Ca Lapan, suddenly inundated in December 1812 by a great quake, killing all who dwelt there. To tjs day fishermen and hunters can hear an eerie chanting arising from the depths of Reelfoot Lake.
No rays from the holy heaven come down
On the long night-time of that town;
But light from out the lurid sea
Streams up the turrets silently-
Gleams up the pinnacles far and free-
Up domes-up spires-up kingly halls-
Up fanes-up Babylon-like walls-
Up shadowy long-forgotten bowers
Of sculptured ivy and stone flowers-.
Up many and many a marvelous shrine
Whose wreathed friezes intertwine
The viol, the violet, and the vine.
excerpt from "The City in the Sea"
By E.A Poe
Thank you for sharing this which perfectly mirrors the music.
God bless you
I love how your picture is Frank Sinatra. He loved this type of music.
That's amazing, thank you so much for sharing.
"Hell rising from a thousand thrones
shall do it reverence"
I love the Sunken Cathedral. It's the first time I've ever heard music take me on a physical journey. Hear the water? The swells of the crests & waves? Claude Debussy has done so many wonderful works but I think this has to be my favorite.
God Bless All,
Aylagh
Yes, he was a brilliant composer, he really focused on tone-colour and how the sound "felt".
I agree, this is a beautiful and really imaginative piece.
Noble 6 Daphnis and Chloe isn’t a symphony it is a ballet that premiered the same night as a riot that broke out over some ballet called the rite of spring by a young Stravinsky that premiered. Ravel was more about orchestration rather than tone poems.
I like this, too. But, the "moment prior to the fawn's afternoon" ranks #1.
I feel it's the same with La mer. You can actually feel the water, hear the waves.
I'm a fumbling, new piano player, so my opinion may be naive and uninformed; but I have been a musician for twenty-five of my thirty-six short years, and this version does it for me. There are many talented interpretations of this piece, and all of them are beautiful in their own way, but whenever I listen to a new one, I go straight to the passage at 1:56 and compare it to this one. So far, this interpretation is my forever favorite: I love the feel of the staggering tempo, the sparkling anticipation in the treble notes, and the way the left hand just...THUNDERS, all the way down, to the final, ringing, resounding chord at the bottom. I FEEL the power of this enormous cathedral triumphantly breaking the surface. There's real weight, real gravitas behind it, if you will.
I really appreciate Thiollier's delicate hand in that passage as well. He modulates the treble chords there, blending them in, getting them out of the way so I can hear dat bass, as the kids might say. In other performances where I can better hear them, it sounds clanging, jarring to me. I do love me those resonant, thundering low notes. Exquisite performance.
beautifully written appreciation
Great analysis, and funny, too! Much appreciated, thanks 💓
Agreed
I personally think naive and uninformed is the most correct way to respond to art.
This is such an underrated piano classic
This piece transcends the sound pallette of the piano. Debussy's mastery of creating imagery using sound is truly incomprehensible!
Una esecuzione a mio avviso stupenda, con tutti i colori, i piani e forti, i reverberi e le sonorità di cui c'è bisogno: grazie Thiollier
"Screw the progression, I have tone!" -- Debussy Abridged
(Why yes, I do love this guy.)
On se rend compte que l'image d'une cathédrale engloutie est tellement poétique, il y a quelque chose d'imposant et de calme..
Oui...Un peu comme la splendeur d'une tragédie classique.
Absolutely. For some reason it reminds me of a Castlevania game.
remarquable musique , d'une sensibilité profonde
Claude Debussy is 4 of Clubs ♣♣♣♣Happy Birthday to CLAUDE DEBUSSY REST IN POWER Blessings and HUGS! 👑💜
This music seems to take me to a strange place, it's like I'm falling to the bottom of the ocean and then you feel like you've fallen asleep and become a soul as you go down to the bottom of the sea, the feeling that you're going to heaven and everything is peaceful🕊️.
I can never turn my ears away from this piece...
just watched Frank Sinatra on Johnny Carson and this is the song Frank liked to use for romantic moments!
Yes, Mr. Sinatra's unexpected, lovely choice.
But what was the other one? 'Davison Chloe'? I couldn't work it out.
Daphnis and Chloe. My guess is you came here from Tony Danza like I did?
haha me too, that's how I got here.
Haha --- same! Loved Johnny's framing of that question.
C'est genial. Claude Debussy etait un formidable et superbe compositeur!
La cathédrale engloutie! J'attends ça depuis si longtemps! J'adore cette musique, c'est tellement paisible et apaisant. Je vous remercie!
My music module brought me here, didn't regret it xD
This my first time ever hearing this piece. 63 years and it is worth the wait. Thank you for posting.
Silent and billowing, Notre Dame is consumed in flames. Something about it is peaceful. No opposition, no defenses. Just a last song, the last notes it will ever hear. The sunken cathedral, fallen, never to be seen again. The girl picks up her phone to call her father. "It's burning," she screams as she weeps. "It's burning to the ground, it's burning right now." She can do nothing for the church as its spire collapses and it softly dies. She looks up into the night sky filled with white smoke and her childish heart just couldn't believe that the stars were out. She just couldn't believe it.
Listening to this on the day of the fire at the cathedral of Notre Dame, and just letting myself be quiet.
Kathryn Naum That's what brought me here. The cathedral isn't engulfed or even destroyed, but it's damaged. 😢
That voiced figure at 1:39... I've heard it all throughout my life. The church about two kilometers away from us plays it every time someone gets married. It's so rejoiceful for me. :)
The first time I listened to this piece, I liked it, and felt it was ok. And now, the more I listen to it, the more it haunts me. As haunting as would be the ringing bells of a sunken cathedral.
It's my first time listening to this music, and I just let it sink in my head and emotions for now so I can understand this masterpiece
Oh! que c'est beau . J'ai entendu cette oeuvre il y a une cinquantaine d'années...et j'ai rajeuni merveilleusement .
Bubbles emerged out of the piano with every note, floating around the various species of fish and corals. The echoes of the melody resounded inside the cathedral, calling forth memories of her past glory above the surface and impregnating the walls with a sempiternal beauty that will last past it's decay into the voice of the sea.
I had a headache, but then I listened to this song... Debussy is a miracle-worker.
When I hear this, I imagine myself inside a large temple with sandstone and gold embroidery.
As the music goes on, I walk by many large pillars, holding the temple together, and see amber lighting (like September colors).
I walk into this light and see it's source is from the top of a long vertical stairway that goes upwards. I walk up the stairs, the whole temple behind shakes and plunderes as I make it to the top.
I in vision freedom, and find myself looking down over a balcony which stretches down a deep cliff with a desert at the bottom. Though water lies parallel, a lake, bellow the horizon which sits below red sky. It glimmers and leaves with reflection opon the lake, like crystal.
Despite its stylistic diversity, Debussy was above all a composer of expressionist aesthetics, always close to drama, depth, anguish and the deep and tormented vision of life that seems to emanate from the metaphysics of man as of his very deep nature !
The fire at Notre Dame brought me here. 😢
When I've heard this tune, I've imagined the inside of a cathedral in the aftermath of a flood. Wooden pews are covered in water. Some paper and debris float around. A few rays of sunlight penetrate the windows into an otherwise darkened scene. There's a sense of greatness smashed down and destroyed.
⛪ 🔥 💧 🎶 😔
Melanie Lee it’s a European tradition of the cathedral or church that has a tolling bell in what was once land but is now the sea. In the UK there are loads of submerged churches or cathedrals. Isle of Wight has one as do some counties that border the North Sea. You are correct with your analogy. The piece is meant to describe a fog and in that fog a long forgotten cathedral appears from the fog and you hear the bells and choir and monks singing. But the story you have added is another interpretation of what this piece is meant to describe. But yes Notre Dame is most likely the basis of the piece.
@@davidreece6193 no its not its an cathedrale somewhere in france but its not notre dame xD
Bonita foto, que GRAN COMPOSICIÓN.Si la gente seria capaz de valorar y disfrutar de esta música, la sociedad sería distinta. Hasta el que cree que la valora y realiza comentarios que no son mas que quejas burguesas y obsevaciones que sobran.
It's so mysterious, and the picture you chose to go with the song enhanced that feeling.
I can imagine these church spires protruding from the ocean floor and various kinds of colorful fish, maybe even some mermaid swimming harmoniously in this imaginary musical world, the notes and sounds echoing and coming to the surface like air bubbles. Very aquatic sounding composition.
Pray for Notre Dame. What a bad day.
This is so fitting, it has everything. A humbled greatness sitting in a dark place, a sunken atmosphere, the strange calm of a dead world.
beautiful poetic comment
According to legend, one day every century the cathedral rises from the sea, only to sink back beneath the waves at nightfall. This is reflected in the dynamics of Debussy's music.
bodybwan2be1 This sounds like the Brigadoon of cathedrals!
One of the lesser known of Claude Debussy's short works but so haunting and beautiful. . . .
c'est magnifique.....on est dans un monde où le beau et le vrai dominent.
jacques LAHONDERE il y a bach pour ca mdr
Oh man this is a very haunting theme and sets quite the mood and atmosphere.
Tell me about it..
We listened to this in class today. Very peaceful, beautiful song.
The original Devil's Lake, North Dakota is submerged.
Many people dive on the old steeple there, frozen in time.
Many others fish the depths, safely from the surface.
All the childhood memories, dreams, buried in ice...
In my mind's eye, the cathedral lies in a warm part of the sea, bathed in green and gold light that filters down from the sun through a kelp forest. My limbs, my hair and my mind drift with the current, carressed and buoyed up by the undulating kelp fronds, utterly at peace.
very descriptive. I just hear bells in the higher but also more interestingly the lower register resonate with such a rich, fluid and sustained nature as if underwater (created by the extensive pedal use) but also as if standing in the resonant and achoustic interior of a normal cathedral. and the punched chords just reflect the firm standing of such a massive and glorious building. love the way the piece ends as we leave the cathedral somewhere in the deep dark depths. that's just my take. so deep ;)
That chord progression from around 4:00-4:15 is just eargasmic. Amazing...
It's all major minor 7th chords... They are a bitch to play, but sound lovely
+Hailey Haring
Thanks for the info. I love Debussy's harmony, so unusual, sensual and ethereal.
I am doing this piece in my school orchestra and it just sounds even more beautiful with violins and piano. the first time I heard this I thought 'wow'
i cant explain the profound emotion i feel when i listen to this song. in my mind i imagine the mystique and terror of coming face to face with a long-forgotten god.
wow! nicely put.
I just heard this incredible piece played by a visiting pianist to our retirement community (I hired him) who explained the mythological story of the sunken cathedral. What an amazing work. I'm glad I could find it here to listen again. Many thanks.
It's my first time listening to this music and I wanna learn and understand this masterpiece that made Impressionism.
I heard this played in a performance class at the Royal Conservatoire by one of my piers and it is stunning
Impressionism, Impressionism, you ALL have got it wrong. Debussy had a moment of clarity, a revelation of sorts. The Legend of Ys may have been the inspiration, but the music told and still tells a larger story. Impressionism is just a pigeon hole for a work of genius. The title of the song was put at the end so that the musician could play what he felt and read. The music was a conduit for the imagination, not a predetermined conclusion. Impressionism is the precise opposite. It assumes you already have a picture in mind, and simply fills in the details.
I agree 👍
I've heard "symbolist" as a more accurate description, if a description could even be applied to Debussy
Very well said. Kudos
I'm in an years task: to find a bad music from Tchaikovsky, Debussy and Ravel. Still can't find a single one!
@Juan Richart Ruiz For me, it's Bach, Haydn, and Mozart. Their consistency amazes me.
Recommend some for me please!!!
how is it now? still can't find a bad music from them?
@@gregking4142 how about Beethoven?
Talking about Debussy I think it's easier, mainly about the preludes
And the bells, yes, the piano resonates like the bells of the church.
Já vi pessoas chorando durante uma execução dessa música.Era uma preparação para uma prova de Bacharelado em Piano.O estudante errou no final,mas todos já haviam derramado suas lágrimas
qual era a faculdade ?
Nice and full music. Very beautiful music.. For solo piano. It was published in 1910 as the tenth prelude in Debussy’s first of two volumes of twelve piano preludes each. It is characteristic of Debussy in its form, harmony, and content
The Japanse musician Tomita made a beautiful electronic version of this.
Thanks
And his version is simply amazing. Probably Debussy would love it, too.
Thanks for the info-very interesting. The 19th century was such a rich time for the arts.
I want to thank you for making this beautiful music available to the people of youtube, this is by far the best recording i have heard.
Thinking of sunk Hyrule in The Legend Of Zelda: Windwaker...
Yesssss
Don't forget the Tower of the Gods, emerging from the center of the Great Sea for the first time.
the music and the picture of sunken chthedral match each other so goooood!
Vin Mitchell & Guitar Madness (an outgrowth of the Berklee Guitar Department Ensemble Program), five "line" guitars, a rhythm guitar, bass, and drums (I was Guitar V), had a glorious arrangement of this piece, by Vin, in its book...
...and it was the only piece in our repertoire that we never recorded.
Impressionism at its most Impressionistic, and although it's not his best-known work...
...this may be Debussy's masterpiece.
Sometimes this piece brings tears to my eyes, but I don't know why.
J'adore debussy, c'est magnifique
Debussy's La Cathedrale Engloutie inspired a remarkable extended series of paintings by Ceri Richards, painted between 1957 and 1962. Three were shown at the 1962 Venice Biennale - Richards represented Britain and won the Einaudi Painting Prize. Paintings from the series are held by the Tate, the British Council, the Welsh National Museum, the Ulster Museum, the New South Wales Art Gallery, the Glynn Vivian Gallery in Swansea, Pallant House in Chichester and the Aberdeen Gallery.
goose bumps. I love this piece.
Debussy spent the last years of his life trying to write an opera based on Poe's Fall of the House of Usher. Debussy claimed he "lived in the House of Usher". An important part of French artistic culture was Poesque, eg Baudelaire, Mallarme, Redon, Huysmans, Debussy. Like yourself, the first thing I thought of on hearing this was City in the Sea.
I am immersed in sorrow while listening to this famous tune .
When I listen to this - it's all I ever want to hear.
My favorite impressionist composer
toothless toe yah he is
I am learning about 20th century composers in school and Claude Debussy is the main impressionist composer. He didn't like being called an impressionistic composer but he was one.
He's my favorite composer in general. He did something unique, original, and very clever in a way that is beautiful and touching and easily accessible. To do all those things at once is an astonishing feat.
A mighty tune indeed.
That is the best thing I have ever heard.
Incredible. Beatiful. Majestiuc. Congratulations. Piece of art. Love it.
Chills. Always. this, and Beethoven sonata Pathétique are my two reach pieces. once I can play these, I will be truly happy.
John Carpenter created a very good synthesized version of this for "Escape From New York".
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Is any more performance possible ？
It isn't possible to wish for any more performance ！
It is the best music that shakes person,s soul .
This is a fairly particular piece to me personally. I often have vivid imagination and I also can interrupt a piece such as this clearly. However, since this piece is made to reflect being “underwater,” I can’t help but notice that I don’t necessarily picture it that way. I interpret the piece as a solemn one, one proposing many “answer-like” ideals. It’s just a piece that is meant to show that we need know knowledge of the future, for we can endure the present with every sweet sense of beauty imaginable, step by step, song by song, person by person, and love by love.
This freezes my blood and brings cold tears to my eyes
I am remembered by this.
A temple that under the dam now.
my childhood memory.
I hope, some time I meet that temple and village again.
from japanese countryside...
This really captures a cathedral underwater and up and back down again, heh. I'll have to revisit this piece sometime soon. I've let myself become rusty, heh... like a sunken ship underwater. Le bateaux engloutie, hehe.
Notes of piano sound like if they were played into the sea. Great.
"If music followed the sophistication of the technology, we'd all be listening to Debussy right now." -- Steely Dan
I first heard this as played by Isao Tomita. I imagined a cathedral engulfed in ice siitting on an icy snowy plain. Very haunting.
just beautiful..
thanks to the book The Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker i have heard this haunting music and i love it
I can think of a really good animation for this right now: the pianist is playing in an underwater cathedral and as he nears the pieces end to glass in the cathedral starts to break and as he goes into the final few minute he water rushes in and the pianist s playing underwater and when the piece ends he drowns and drifts away from the piano.
Wow, thats actaully a really powerful mental image
I can almost hear the church bell in this piece. Debussy, you genius!!
I listen to this, close my eyes and see heaven. :)
soooo beautiful the depth..into my heart..
Simplemente ,una Maravilla.
Beautiful rendition! Lots of depth. Perfect.
A wonderful piece by a remarkable composer of many works. I believe the title is "The Engulfed Catherdral".
Great perform.
Was turned onto this particular song when I read it mentioned in the Murakami book, "Norwegian Wood". Personally, out of the Debussy I've listened to, this is my favorite as it is so contemplative.
Thanks, will check them out!
I played this in college, too. It is one of my favorite pieces.
Beautiful Quartal Harmony.
always so beautiful
My definition of Impressionism. ...
It's a great piece and the image reminds me of cathedral Notre Dame (París), and Victor Hugo's novel...lo!
Esmeralda Morales im glad you liked... Esmeralda
Douglas Smith It is very beautiful ....and the novel also.
Esmeralda Morales Les Miserable? Hunchback?
Douglas Smith No...Notre-Dame de Paris...The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Esmeralda Gypsy ....:))
The music is so magical I forget I'm listening to a piano.