As a conductor, Ostrčil had a significant influence on his younger contemporaries in the interwar period.

By simply developing along the lines we had already established with the lesser known young contemporaries.

Contrary to some younger contemporaries, like the Andokides Painter, whom he perhaps influenced, he held to the black figure style and did not change over.

In the early 1960s, he became a regular exhibitor with the young contemporaries annual group show in Dublin.

Here he delivered a series of literary lectures which had an extraordinary effect on his younger contemporaries.

He was considered something of a hermit, preferring the books in his library to the usual sports of his young Spanish contemporaries.

This made him alien to his younger contemporaries and to all the later part of the century, which identified poetry with sentiment.

Schulenberg adds, "he was evidently less willing than most younger contemporaries to compose fashionable, readily accessible music".

Near the end of his life Ramm was honored with a book of essays by his colleagues and younger contemporaries.