Debussy’s Suite Bergamesque is arguably his most famous work. He composed it at a young age in 1890, and published it fifteen years later in a revised version. It is most famous for the Clair de lune, a super romantic tune that everybody, and I mean everybody knows. It has been made famous by film music and is cited in many pop tunes.
The whole suite is called Bergamesque after the Italian city of Bergamo, and it is supposed to portray a dance from that region. The Clair de lune is inspired by a poem by the French poet Verlaine, and gives an impression of the moon on water. Debussy composed a song in 1882 with the same name, but in a different key. The melody is entirely his own, though rooted in the much bigger French song tradition and impressionistic songs from Chopin and Fauré.