Round 14: Tossup 12

A piano piece by this composer begins with planed parallel fifths that depict the title building “in a sweetly sonorous 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 Hokusai’s print The Great Wave off Kanagawa on the cover of his orchestral suite La Mer (“MARE”). A poem by 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■

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