Kevin Sutton asks for information about the background of Alberic Magnard. Leaving music aside a moment he died heroically. His house, north of Paris, found itself in the direct line of the German advance in the 1914-18 war. He wasn't having any of this and as the first soldiers advanced up the driveway of his house he let fly with a 12-bore shotgun. The result was his death and the destruction (by fire) of his house and many of his scores. This glorious but somewhat foolish death is perhaps what I found endeared him to the Belgians. The fight to restore Magnard to the catalogue was largely begun, as I recall, c.1967 by the late Thierry Grisar owner of the Domaine du Disque in the Galerie Ravenstein in the Belgian capital (in those days Belgium's No.1 classical retailer). Grisar constantly bombarded EMI Pathe Marconi (later EMI France) over a number of years with requests for recordings - as well as those of Chausson. Today we have them. John G. Deacon