Beyond the composer: the man

Fro the CD-Book Fernand de La Tombelle (1854-1928). Musique de chambre, chorale et symphonique (collection Portrait, Palazzetto Bru Zane, 2019).

To speak of the music of Fernand de La Tombelle is the essential thing here, and that is the domain of specialists; but to speak of the man, his ideals, his acts, is that not to evoke the elements which nourished that music?