Word: mignon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...listening to the improvisations of a bright young student named Claude Debussy, Franck cried, "Modulate, modulate!" Debussy replied: "Why should I when I am perfectly happy in this key?" and forthwith changed teachers. He enraged such enemies as Camille Saint-Saëns and baffled occasional defenders like Ambroise (Mignon) Thomas. Said Thomas: "How can you describe a symphony as in the key of D minor when the principal theme at the ninth bar goes into D flat, at the tenth C flat, at the 21st F sharp minor...