Claude Debussy instead "an exquisite, pellucid style" capable of conveying "not only gaiety and whimsicality but emotion of a deeper sort". In a 2004 study, Mark DeVoto comments that Debussy's early works are harmonically no more adventurous than existing music by Fauré; in a 2007 book about the piano works, Margery Halford observes that "Deux arabesques" (1888–1891) and "Rêverie" (1890) have "the fluidity and warmth of Debussy's later style" but are not harmonically innovative. Halford cites the popular "Clair de Lune" (1890) from the "Suite Bergamasque" as a transitional work pointing towards the composer's mature style. Musicians from Debussy's time onwards have
Suite Gothique Suite Gothique Suite gothique, Op. 25 is a suite for organ composed by Léon Boëllmann in 1895. The suite consists of four movements: The first movement (Introduction - Choral) is in C minor and is made up of harmonized choral phrases that are first played in block chords on the great and pedals, and then repeated, piano, on the Swell. The second movement ("Menuet gothique") is in 3/4 time and in C major. The third movement ("Prière à Notre-Dame") is in A-flat major. It rarely uses dynamics above 'piano'. The final fourth movement (Toccata) is the best-known of the suite.