Avis de décès de Margaret Cobb

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 (Wendy) of Salt Lake, and ten great-grandchildren. A family graveside service was held in Southampton on March 27.