Influence, Quotation and Sampling
Generally speaking, La mer has been influential to many contemporary soundtrack composers because of its highly suggestive and moody atmosphere.
- Luciano Berio quotes the 2nd movement, "Jeux de vagues", in the third movement of his Sinfonia, premiered in 1968.
- Some passages (the 3rd movement, for example) of La mer may have inspired John Williams for the score he wrote for Jaws (1975).
- In 1991, the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, who referred to Debussy as being his "first teacher", based a work, Quotation of Dream: Say Sea, Take Me! on a theme from La mer.
- In 2002, Norwegian composer Geir Jenssen (alias Biosphere) loosely based his ambient album Shenzhou around looped samples of La mer .
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