 Few of these works have survived; they were too derivative, their composers were too overwhelmed by the example of their hero to preserve much individuality of their own.Claude Debussy had a much more ambivalent – and ultimately more fruitful- attitude to Wagnerian influence.Initially overwhelmed by his experience of Wagner's operas, especially "Parsifal", Debussy later tried to break free of the spell of the "Old Wizard of Bayreuth".