The libretto was the sixth in Greenaway's Death of a Composer series which explores the deaths of ten 20th-century composers, two real (Anton Webern and John Lennon), and the remaining eight fictional.
Greenaway's Death of a Composer series includes the libretto as its sixth installment, focusing on the demise of ten 20th-century composers, with two being real figures (Anton Webern and John Lennon) and the rest being fictional characters.