 He mixed very little with French musicians, although Florent Schmitt arranged the piano scores of Delius's first two operas, "Irmelin" and "The Magic Fountain" (Ravel later did the same for his "verismo" opera "Margot la rouge").As a result, his music never became widely known in France.Delius's biographer Diana McVeagh says of these years that Delius "was found to be attractive, warm-hearted, spontaneous, and amorous."