But in our marketplace its value is nonetheless based on standards of invention, individuality, authenticity and so on.

Even by the high standard of invention Weber maintained elsewhere in the score, he outdid himself in the Wolf's Glen scene, which has never been bettered as a musical representation of the relationship between the natural and the supernatural.

Causton's contemporary Julian Anderson (former Head of Composition at the Royal College of Music) has described him as being one of "the most original of his generation" and of possessing "exceptionally high standards of invention and imagination."