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The tonality of "Tristan" was to prove immensely influential in western Classical music. Wagner's use of musical colour also influenced the development of film music. Bernard Herrmann's score for Alfred Hitchcock's classic, "Vertigo", is heavily reminiscent of the "Liebestod", most evidently in the resurrection scene. The Liebestod was incorporated in Luis Buñuel's Surrealist film "L'Age d'Or". Not all composers, however, reacted favourably: Claude Debussy's piano piece "Golliwog's Cakewalk" mockingly quotes the opening of the opera in a distorted form, instructing the passage to be played ". However, Debussy was highly influenced by Wagner and was particularly fond of "Tristan." Frequent moments of "Tristan"-inspired tonality mark Debussy's early compositions.