In his third year (1898-99) he still gave five courses of two hours a week each, with the exception of a single one-hour course.

For these no less than eighty-six students were registered; and in the following year, fifty-two students were registered in one of the courses.

In 1901-02 he gave six courses: a general course in musical culture, for which he had thirty-seven students; an advanced course in musical culture, for which he had fourteen students; a course in counterpoint, twelve students; in orchestration, twelve students; in practical composition, thirteen students; in free compositions, two students.

This continued to be, in general, his work until he resigned in 1904.

To these labours he added the appalling drudgery of correcting examination books and exercises--a task which he performed with unflagging patience and invariable thoroughness.