An inventor, not an innovator. If there is a down side to all this, it is his unflinching pleasantness. No profundities here. Everything is in its place, and sometimes brilliantly stated. And with great humor, too.
Generalizations are dangerous.
Hell give us no break-throughs. But simply by doing things his way, he puts our musical past in fresh perspective. And allows us to again appreciate its glories. Judging from record catalogs, interest is booming in secondary composers of the Romantic era. Thats good new for contemporary composer Robert Baksa, because anyone who enjoys music by the likes of Spohr and Reinecke should find much of interest is Baksas works.