 While there he conducted at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens.Again returning home, he astonished the musical community with the production in Antwerp of a sacred tetralogy, consisting of his "Cantate de Noël", the above-mentioned Mass, a Te Deum and a Requiem, in which were embodied to a large extent his theories about Flemish music.Benoit passionately pursued the founding of an entirely separate Flemish school, and to that purpose even changed his name from the French "Pierre" to the Dutch equivalent "Peter".