It is a French movement during the late 19th and early 20th century that uses extensive colors and effects, ambiguous melodies, and innovative chords and progressions leading to slight dissonances.

Many of this man’s works describe water in its flowing or stormy moods. He is also famous for human characterizations in music.

He is known for rhythmic inventiveness and nationalistic style of musical works

He is a prominent musician of the impressionist movement and the focal point for other impressionist composers.

He experimented the use of chromatic harmonies and eventually, his tonal preference slowly turned to the dissonant and atonal.