Debussy La Mer
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Debussy’s *La Mer* is a landmark early 20th-century orchestral work that evocatively depicts the sea through innovative harmony, coloristic orchestration, and impressionistic textures.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Debussy La Mer canonical | 1 |
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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1009582 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Debussy La Mer Context triple: [Charles Munch, hasNotableRecording, Debussy La Mer]
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A.
Three Musicians
Three Musicians is a famous 1921 Cubist painting by Pablo Picasso depicting three abstracted, brightly colored figures playing musical instruments.
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B.
“La Valse”
“La Valse” is a darkly atmospheric ballet set to Maurice Ravel’s waltz, famously choreographed by George Balanchine and noted for its themes of glamour and impending doom.
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C.
Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite Scheherazade
Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite Scheherazade is a lush, programmatic orchestral work that vividly evokes the tales of the Arabian Nights through colorful orchestration and recurring musical themes.
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D.
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy was a pioneering French composer whose innovative harmonies and impressionistic style profoundly reshaped Western classical music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Blue Waters
Blue Waters is a petascale supercomputer system designed for large-scale scientific and engineering research, formerly operated at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Debussy La Mer Target entity description: Debussy’s *La Mer* is a landmark early 20th-century orchestral work that evocatively depicts the sea through innovative harmony, coloristic orchestration, and impressionistic textures.
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A.
Three Musicians
Three Musicians is a famous 1921 Cubist painting by Pablo Picasso depicting three abstracted, brightly colored figures playing musical instruments.
-
B.
“La Valse”
“La Valse” is a darkly atmospheric ballet set to Maurice Ravel’s waltz, famously choreographed by George Balanchine and noted for its themes of glamour and impending doom.
-
C.
Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite Scheherazade
Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite Scheherazade is a lush, programmatic orchestral work that vividly evokes the tales of the Arabian Nights through colorful orchestration and recurring musical themes.
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D.
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy was a pioneering French composer whose innovative harmonies and impressionistic style profoundly reshaped Western classical music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Blue Waters
Blue Waters is a petascale supercomputer system designed for large-scale scientific and engineering research, formerly operated at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
orchestral composition
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symphonic work ⓘ |
| approximateDuration | 23–25 minutes ⓘ |
| catalogueNumber | L. 109 ⓘ |
| composer | Claude Debussy ⓘ |
| composerNationality | French ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| dateComposed | 1903–1905 ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
Eduard von Hartmann
ⓘ
surface form:
Nikolai von Hartmann
|
| EnglishTitle | The Sea ⓘ |
| genre |
orchestral music
ⓘ
symphonic sketches ⓘ |
| harmonicLanguage |
extended tonality
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modal inflections ⓘ whole-tone sonorities ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century orchestral writing
ⓘ
French symphonic music ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
seascapes of J. M. W. Turner
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seascapes of Katsushika Hokusai ⓘ |
| inspiration | the sea ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | French ⓘ |
| movement |
De l’aube à midi sur la mer
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Dialogue du vent et de la mer ⓘ Jeux de vagues ⓘ |
| movementNumber1Title | De l’aube à midi sur la mer ⓘ |
| movementNumber2Title | Jeux de vagues ⓘ |
| movementNumber3Title | Dialogue du vent et de la mer ⓘ |
| musicalEra | Modern ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
coloristic orchestration
ⓘ
complex rhythmic textures ⓘ innovative harmony ⓘ use of motivic transformation instead of traditional thematic development ⓘ |
| numberOfMovements | 3 ⓘ |
| orchestration | large symphony orchestra ⓘ |
| period | early 20th century ⓘ |
| placeOfComposition | France ⓘ |
| premiereCity | Paris ⓘ |
| premiereConductor | Camille Chevillard ⓘ |
| premiereCountry | France ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1905-10-15 ⓘ |
| premiereEnsemble | Orchestre Lamoureux ⓘ |
| publisher | A. Durand & Fils ⓘ |
| status | landmark of 20th-century orchestral repertoire ⓘ |
| style | Impressionism ⓘ |
| subtitle | Trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre ⓘ |
| texture | impressionistic ⓘ |
| title | La Mer ⓘ |
| uses |
divided strings
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expanded woodwind section ⓘ large percussion section ⓘ |
| yearCompleted | 1905 ⓘ |
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