The list comprises sixty-two opus numbers and one hundred and eighty-six separate compositions,--not a remarkable accomplishment, in point of quantity, yet notable and rare in quality.
He suggested, at his best, no one save himself.

He was one of the most individual writers who ever made music--as individual as Chopin, or Debussy, or Brahms, or Grieg.

His mannner of speech was utterly untrammelled, and wholly his own.

Vitality--an abounding freshness, a perpetual youthfulness--was one of his prime traits; nobility--nobility of style and impulse--was another.

The morning freshness, the welling spontaneity of his music, even in moments of exalted or passionate utterance, was continually surprising: it was music not unworthy of the golden ages of the world.