 he never outgrew his precocious youthful style . [ ... ] He remained stylistically conservative [ ... ] feeling no need to attract attention with a display of ' revolutionary ' novelty . Throughout his short career he remained comfortably faithful to the musical status quo – that is , the " classical " forms , as they were already thought of by his time . His version of romanticism , already evident in his earliest works , consisted in musical " pictorialism " of a fairly conventional , objective nature ( though exquisitely wrought ) . 
