 So this piece is a sonata, which is a soloistic composition that often features one or more instruments, so in this case fluguella and harp. Debussy's sonata for fluguella and harp is not a very creative title. During the Impressionist art movement, it was premiered at Jordan Hall in Boston, which is the New England Conservatory's performance hall. Similar to painters like Monet, who did the painting on this slide, the composer Claude Debussy expressed his intense patriotism and appreciation for individuality during World War I. During the First World War, the globe experienced a loss of human life at a previously unfathomable magnitude. As such, the importance of the individual was lost to shrapnel and machine guns. Debussy himself described the piece as terribly sad, not knowing whether it went off to laugh or cry at it. This piece is not traditionally melodic like Mozart or Beethoven, but its beauty lies in its imprecision, much like Monet's delicate and disembodied brushstrokes.