His output was small – only 31 works, and many of them miniatures (about 3 hours of music in all) – and his audience is also at a minimum due to the inaccessibility of his music which, despite (or perhaps, because of) possessing a degree of intellectual delicacy of form and intensity of manner, is almost impossible for the average music-lover to appreciate, despite the efforts of a small number of devoted apologists. | His output was small – only 31 works, and many of them miniatures (about 3 hours of music in all) – and his audience is also at a minimum due to the inaccessibility of his music which, despite (or perhaps, because of) possessing a degree of intellectual delicacy of form and intensity of manner, is almost impossible for the average music-lover to appreciate, despite the efforts of a small number of devoted apologists. |