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 No. 1 (Rachmaninoff) of the emotional tone of the music," the music itself is not programmatic. This work was first performed on November 30, 1893, by Rachmaninoff and Pavel Pabst in Moscow, and is dedicated to Tchaikovsky. Rachmaninoff composed a second suite in 1901. The four movements are: Perhaps surprisingly, given that Rachmaninoff wrote orchestral and two-piano versions of his "Symphonic Dances", which is effectively a three-movement symphony, no one has orchestrated this "Suite" as a possible symphony. Suite No. 1 (Rachmaninoff) Suite No. 1 (or "Fantaisie-Tableaux" for two pianos), Op. 5, is a composition for two pianos by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Composed in