That he did not undertake adventures in all of the forms of music, has been said.

There is no symphony in the list of his published works, no large choral composition.

Yet he was far from being a miniaturist,--he was, in fact, anything but that.

His four sonatas for the piano are planned upon truly heroic lines; they are large in scope and of epical sweep and breadth; and his "Indian" suite is the most impressive orchestral work composed by an American.
He wrote two piano concertos,--early works, not of his best inspiration,--a large number of poetically descriptive smaller works, and almost half a hundred songs of frequent loveliness and character.
The three symphonic poems, "Hamlet and Ophelia," "Lancelot and Elaine," and "Lamia"; the two "fragments," "The Saracens," and "The Lovely Alda," and the first orchestral suite, op.

42--which he might have entitled "Sylvan"-- complete the record of his output, save for some spirited but not very important part-songs for male voices.