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Solving performance problems in Debussy's: La Cathedrale Engloutie.
Debussy's La Cathedrale Engloutie--from Preludes, Book 1, written in 1910--is typical of the kind of tone poem found in all his Preludes. Debussy was inspired to write this piece by an ancient legend of the Cathedral of Ys, told by the people of the Brittany section of France. In the legend, the ocean engulfed the cathedral 1,500 years ago as punishment for the impious population. It was allowed to rise out of the water at sunrise to remind the people of their sins, then slowly return to the depths and enchanted sleep.
Daniel Ericourt notes in his Masterclasses in Debussy that on Mt. St. Michel, a very small island just off the Brittany coast of France, stands an ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) January 5, 2004 700+ words
...commemorating the 1939 Thetis submarine disaster, that sounds like a grossly inflated version of Debussy's La Cathedrale Engloutie - suggested an inability to self-censor. Its only point seemed to be its massive, post-Lisztian technical...
Source: HighBeam Research, Solving performance problems in Debussy's: La Cathedrale Engloutie.