When Maurice Ravel's string quartet bombed with the critics, composer Claude Debussy wrote him saying "In the name of the gods of music … do not touch a single note you have written in your Quartet."
Debussy was speaking from experience, for a decade earlier, his own quartet had made its debut to less than ecstatic reviews.
On this edition of "Connections," an exploration of the links between the two composers and their string quartets.