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Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer (1862'1918) and alongside Maurice Ravel was one of the most prominent and important figures associated with impressionist music movement. His use of non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many other composers and made him one of the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The literary style of this period in France was known as Symbolism and this directly inspired Debussy as a composer. At the age of ten in 1872, Debussy entered the Paris Conservatoire, where he spent 11 years. From the outset of his conservatoire training although obviously talented, Debussy was argumentative and continually challenged the rigid teaching there, experimenting with dissonance and untraditional intervals that were often frowned upon. In addition he was a brilliant pianist and in particular an outstanding sight reader, who could have perhaps had a professional career as a pianist if he had so wished. In 1884 he was th

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