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Old Mar 1 2008, 1:52 PM
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OK, then to clear up a misunderstanding: it largely depends on your definition of "influenced".
True. Although, my wife and I were listening to the 11th symphony recently and we both commented that the trumpet calls in the first movement sounded rather "Mahler-ian". Of course that just may be the nature of trumpet calls...

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Debussy despised, loathed, hated, reserved-a-special-place-in-hell, for all things Wagnerian.
I did not know that. Maybe that's why I like Debussy so much.
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