Louise Hanson-Dyer

She and her husband moved to London 1927, then Paris in 1928, where they commenced what was to become a remarkable collection of printed music, scores and scholarly material from the 15th to 19th centuries.

She founded Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre in 1932, printing impeccable historical editions of the music of Lully, Couperin, Jacopo da Bologna and Purcell, then branched out into recorded performances, which became their major focus.

She helped promote modern composers including Georges Auric, Benjamin Britten, Joseph Canteloube, Gustav Holst, Jacques Ibert, Vincent d'Indy, Charles Koechlin, Darius Milhaud, Albert Roussel and Henri Sauguet She was appointed chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1934 and promoted to officier in 1957.

The following year she married 30-year-old British literary scholar Joseph Birch "Jeff" Hanson and moved to England, where he was studying at Balliol College, Oxford.

[2] A volume of essays on Hanson-Dyer, Pursuit of the New, was issued in 2023, in advance of an exhibition at the Holst Museum in Cheltenham, which runs from June to December 2024.