"In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist."

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When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, "Let's go. He's starting to develop.

— Claude Debussy