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A piano piece by this composer begins with planed parallel fifths that depict the title building “in a sweetly sonorous (10[1])fog.” Like many of his works, a piece by this composer (10[1])whose title can be translated as “veils” or “sails” is based on the whole-tone scale. This composer included “Dialogue of the wind and the sea” in a set of three “symphonic sketches.” This composer of “The Sunken Cathedral” used (10[2])Hokusai’s print The Great Wave off Kanagawa on the cover of his orchestral suite La Mer (10[1])(“MARE”). A (10[1])poem by (10[1])Paul Verlaine (“vair-LEN”) inspired this composer’s Suite Bergamasque (“berg-ah-MASK”) for piano. For 10 points, what founder of musical impressionism wrote “Clair de Lune?” ■END■ (10[3])

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