As reported, I recently discovered Jean Nicolas Geoffroy's music via IMSLP.  Matthew Daillie and Ewa Mrowca (many thanks to both) pointed me in the direction of  a publisher and book dealer who could supply more sheet music of this excellent composer. This experience and also remembering how much harder it was to find material in the days before internet and a forum like this, started me thinking about the whole topic of repertoire and who gets in, who doesn't and why and how.
Advertising plays a large part - by the composer and by conductors and players. Pachelbel's canon would still be rather obscure if Jean-Francois Paillard hadn`t championed it in the 1970s. Quality? Who decides? Are there famous composers  who in members' opinion should not be played so often (pet dislikes!); fashion - whose music, which playing style suit our post-modern feelings?   Ludwig Landshoff writes in the Preface to the 1933 Peters Edition of Inventions and Symphonies about moving away from  "over-emphasising the expression of feelings towards  capturing the substantial form and bringing out the formal values instead of wallowing in the saturated pastose sound etc, etc" ..... (and other such grand stuff!). He was probably thinking of revivalist instruments!
Geoffroy's music is certainly "minimalist" in the very best sense in that he manages to produce moving music with unusual but not over-complicated ideas.  Why has he been neglected?   

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