 Strauss's Opus 60 is unusual among his works in having a distinct Baroque flavor.In fact he based sections 5 to 7 on music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, who had provided the original incidental music in 1670 and was as much a collaborator with Molière as Strauss and Hofmannsthal were centuries later.The few other so-called Neo-Classical works by Strauss also found inspiration in the French Baroque