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Saint-Saëns vs. Debussy
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Saint-Saëns: Facts, pronuncation, works and more about the great composer
9. Saint-Saëns vs. Debussy
Saint-Saëns was not on good terms with all of his contemporaries. There was a particular animosity with Claude Debussy who once stated, ‘I have a horror of sentimentality and cannot forget that its name is Saint- Saëns.’
