Rey completed the score by reusing extracts from Sacchini's previous operas [REF].
In Giorgio Pestelli's view, Sacchini's music did not attempt to match the early Romanticism of the libretto: "Guillard had very promptly presented Sacchini with a libretto full of early romantic sensibility, embracing the ideas of nature and night [..], the attraction of terror, Ossian, and the Breton forests.