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[]Margaret Gallatin Cobb

Centre de Documentation Claude Debussy in St. Germain-en-Laye The Centre de Documentation Claude Debussy came into being in 1972 on the initiative of musicologist François Lesure, in order to promote Debussy studies and provide specialist researchers with the resources for researching, and sharing information about, the composer and his work.

Initially set up at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the composer's birthplace, the Centre was run until 1976 by Margaret G. Cobb, who set up the core collections. Roy Howat took over, followed by Anick Devriès, prior to Myriam Chimènes, who was curator from 1984 to 1988. The Centre de documentation Claude Debussy then moved a number of times before finding a permanent home in the Music Department of the French National Library, where it is today.

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Marriage: Clement B. Cobb Children: Oliver Ellsworth Cobb, Jean Crocker Obituary: COBB--Margaret Gallatin died peacefully at home in New York on March 24 at age 102. A lifelong Francophile and Claude Debussy scholar Mrs. Cobb was appointed in 1972 to head the newly founded Centre de Documentation Claude Debussy in St. Germain-en-Laye (outside Paris). It was here that she gathered an extensive body of primary source material which is now located in the Bibliotheque Nationale of France in Paris. Among her many publications which centered on the literary influences on Debussy are The Poetic Debussy, Debussy's Letters to Inghelbrecht, and the co-translation of the Marcel Dietschy biography A Portrait of Claude Debussy. In 2002, she was honored by the French government with the title of Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. At the time of her death she was working on a book on Debussy's letters with quotations from the poetry Jules Laforgue. An avid collector of Debussy letters she donated over 100 to Morgan Library where she was a Fellow. Prior to opening the Centre, Mrs. Cobb was an editor for thirty-five years at McGraw Hill and editorial consultant there for the Larousse French/English dictionary. She will be greatly missed by her surviving family, her son Dr. Oliver E. Cobb (Pamela) of Seattle and her daughter Jean Gallatin Crocker of New York, five grandchildren, Amy C. van Daalen (Anthony) and Alder H. Crocker of Connecticut, Alison G. Herber (Paul) of Seattle, Dr. Pamela Faulks (Craig) of McLean, VA, and Henry E. Cobb of Salt Lake, and ten great-grandchildren. A family graveside service was held in Southampton on March 27.

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Debussy's Letters to Inghelbrecht: The Story of a Musical Friendship University of Rochester Press ISBN 1-58046-174-3 Poetic Debussy: A collection of his song texts, letters University of Rochester Press 1982 The poetic Debussy : a collection of his song texts and selected letters / collected and annotated by Margaret G. Cobb ; translations by Richard Miller. (Morgan Library: New York, New York) http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=7&ti=1,7&Search%5FArg=debussy&Search%5FCode=SUBJ% 5F&CNT=50&PID=Pg0oqtxsXbTMjEUD7DQ1TR3xcK6H&SEQ=20140213153114&SID=1