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Everything progresses at the speed of communication. Recorded music and radio broadcasts started to affect classical composers during the 1920s-30s. Of course, this is the first time anyone could hear music at their own discretion. One thing that made the early twentieth-century classical music fragment was the impact of Richard Wagner. It wasn't a Beethoven revolution from Classical to Romantic where everyone jumped on the bandwagon. It was composers reacting to Wagner by embracing him or rejecting him. One example is the prelude to Wagner's prelude to "Parsifal and then Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of the Faun". On the surface, they sound little alike, however, focusing on the rhythm and tonality, they have a lot in common.
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