La cathédrale engloutie
About this Piece
And finally, water as myth, Claude Debussy’s (1862-1918) majestic and mysterious La cathédrale engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral), from his first book of preludes. The legendary cathedral of Ys rises from the depths of the sea, great bells tolling, priests chanting – a vision, a mirage, receding now, to be subsumed again beneath the infinite waves.