Playing a popular classical piece that eventually became about the moon.

Title: Clair de Lune
Composer: Claude Debussy

The sheet music for this piece also says Extrait de "Suite Bergamasque", which means it is taken from a suite of pieces, this one being the third or slow piece. Debussy actually wrote three ‘Clair De Lunes’. The idea is from a poem by Paul Verlaine in his collection entitled Fêtes Galantes, themselves inspired by the paintings of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Debussy set six of these poems to music, including this one, first in 1882, then again in 1891. The piano piece dates originally from 1890 and was revised in 1905. Originally the piece had a completely different title, which was ‘Promenade Sentimentale’, but eventually Debussy decided to switch to the more descriptive and precise ‘Clair De Lune’.