“Composer in Belgium – that’s setting off fireworks in your own cellar,” is a statement in which Paul Gilson (1865 – 1942) could certainly have agreed. Reviled by the French-speakers, opposed by the people of Brussels and hugged to death by the Flemish – these were the battlefields on which the “father of Belgian windContinue reading “Paul Gilson: the uneasy fatherhood of Belgian wind music”