When Baker said "that such a work could only have been composed by a 'German philosophical mind'" Willan was challenged to write a composition of the same structure, completed in 1916.
Bakers Bemerkung, such a work could only have been composed by a ‘German philosophical mind’ („ein solches Werk konnte nur von einem Deutschen philosophischen Kopf komponiert werden“), forderte Willan heraus, ein Werk ähnlicher Struktur zu schreiben, das er 1916 beendete.