His essay "About Conducting" (1869) advanced Hector Berlioz's technique of conducting and claimed that conducting was a means by which a musical work could be re-interpreted, rather than simply a mechanism for achieving orchestral unison.
O seu ensaio Über das Dirigieren (1869) avanza a técnica de dirección de Hector Berlioz e reivindicou que a dirección era un medio polo cal podía reinterpretarse unha obra musical, en lugar dun simple mecanismo para lograr a harmonía orquestral.