Her family moved abroad shortly after her birth and her father had to make a special trip to collect her in June.

[4] In 1930 she sang John Dowland's "Awake Sweet Love" from 1575 on Columbia's first volume of their "History of Music" edited by Percy Scholes.

[5] In 1948 she was a founder of the Viola da Gamba Society and her sister, Nathalie, served for many years as President.

Dolmetsch also used her time to find lost music for the pardessus de viole in French libraries.

The music collection she curated included solo compositions by Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Thomas Marc and Caix d'Hervelois.