[stochastic_monk]

It's fitting to me that Debussy would take as a starting point the sonorous/pianistic elements of Liszt and his harmonic/orchestration style from Wagner, who in turn built on/derived from Liszt. A beautiful feed-forward loop.

And I'd have to say that Tristan und Isolde went pretty far toward abandoning traditional laws of harmony, waiting three hours to come to any actual resolution.

(Comics at the time portrayed Wagner as a vampire on Liszt, stealing his ideas and money and running with them. I honestly can't blame them.)

Thank you for pointing out the date.