 Sullivan willed to Cellier the original manuscript scores for "The Pirates of Penzance" and "Patience".Bridgeman, and the anonymous author of "The Era's" profile, considered, as Lytton did, that Cellier's natural talent could have equipped him to rival the creative success of at least one of his two musical idols, but that indolence and lack of ambition prevented it.Both those sources agree that Cellier's conducting technique was unshowy and strictly practical, and he took pleasure in being known as "the musician who conducts in English".