 After a brief period of formal musical study in Germany beginning in 1886, he embarked on a full-time career as a composer in Paris and then in nearby Grez-sur-Loing, where he and his wife Jelka lived for the rest of their lives, except during the First World War.Delius's first successes came in Germany, where Hans Haym and other conductors promoted his music from the late 1890s.In Delius's native Britain, his music did not make regular appearances in concert programmes until 1907, after Thomas Beecham took it up.