 At a dinner party in London in April 1888, Grieg finally convinced Julius Delius that his son's future lay in music.After leaving Leipzig in 1888, Delius moved to Paris where his uncle, Theodore, took him under his wing and looked after him socially and financially.Over the next eight years, Delius befriended many writers and artists, including August Strindberg, Edvard Munch and Paul Gauguin.