After a promising start—while a student he won the prestigious Prix de Rome for composition—he devoted his early

years to honing his compositional skills and seeking an original style, yet at the age of 31 he noted with characteristic
irony that he still had not written a masterpiece. A year later he did just that with his Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun.

a. Schoenberg
b. Ravel
c. Copland
d. Varèse
e. Debussy

ANSWER: e