The period that Belgian organist Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (1823-81) spent in Britain has up to now been shrouded in obscurity.  However almost half of Lemmens' oeuvre was published for the first time in England.  Annelies Focquart has investigated some new sources which cast a brighter light on the ten years Lemmens spent in Britain, as organist, concert performer and teacher, before his return to Belgium in the late 1870s.

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