Music and the Ocean

Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), an opera about a ghost ship by Richard Wagner. The overture starts with the depiction of a storm at sea.

Billy Budd Peter Grimes An opera by Benjamin Britten about a fisherman in Suffolk England. There are four Sea Intervals which are often performed as concert pieces

Concert Pieces

La Mer (The Sea) is a symphonic poem in three sketches by Claude Debussy. The three depict different aspects of the sea. The first is called "From dawn to noon on the sea" or "From dawn to midday on the sea"; the second is "Play of the Waves" and final sketch is called "Dialogue of the wind and the sea" or "Dialogue between wind and waves"

Scheherazade: The Sea and Sinbad's Ship is the first of four movements of Rimsky Korsakoff's Sheherazade. The fourth movement depicts the destruction of the ship in storm.