 But he left behind an immense influence on French music and several other foreign composers followed his example and came to Paris to write Gluckian operas, including Salieri ("Les Danaïdes", 1784) and Sacchini ("Oedipe à Colone", 1786).The French Revolution of 1789 was a cultural watershed.What was left of the old tradition of Lully and Rameau was finally swept away, to be rediscovered only in the twentieth century.