Claude Debussy completed his String Quartet in G minor, Op.
The work consists of four movements: Its sensuality and impressionistic tonal shifts are emblematic of its time and place and its cyclic structure constitutes a divorce from the rules of classical harmony into a new style.
After its premiere, composer Guy Ropartz described the quartet as "dominated by the influence of young Russia; there are poetic themes, rare sonorities, the first two movements being particularly remarkable.
"[1] Debussy said that "Any sounds in any combination and in any succession are henceforth free to be used in a musical continuity.
"[citation needed] Maurice Ravel, another impressionist composer, wrote a string quartet that is modeled after Debussy's.