Au Clair de Lune (In the moonlight)

The early 20th century was characterized by a greater influence of music from the Far East on European music. In this atmosphere, many composers wrote pieces that openly tried to have an Asian color. Indonesian "Gamelan" music had a special and tremendous effect on French composers, who, at the time, found a great interest in it, both in repetitiveness of musical patterns and the many unique and diversified percussion, wooden and string instruments, with their exotic, floating sound.

In this musical scenery, Debussy wrote his magical "In the Moonlight", which immediately won staggering popularity, perhaps more than any of his other works. Debussy, who gave the impressionist school its characteristics, wrote a small, lovely piece that does not stand on the same ground with his other important works, and yet it is full of magic and beauty that captured the hearts of the masses more than any other impressionist piece.