Einaudi's first big hit "Le Onde", is the title of his first album but also the piano composition featured in the album.
Einaudi wrote this piece to musically describe the waves and the ocean. Einaudi wrote of the album : "If 'Le Onde' were a story, it would be set on the seafront of a long beach. A beach without beginning and without end. The story of a man who walks along this shore and perhaps never meets anyone. His gaze lingers occasionally to look at some object or fragment brought from the sea. The footprints of a crab or a solitary seagull. I always take the sand, the sky, some clouds, the sea. Only the waves change, always the same and different, smaller, larger, shorter, longer".