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Éditions de l’Oiseau-Lyre (commonly referred to as L’Oiseau-Lyre) is a music publishing company financed and established in Paris in 1932 by Louise Dyer (later Hanson-Dyer) an Australian pianist and philanthropist.She had settled in France two years earlier and energetically amassed a collection of manuscripts and printed music lyrics and dissertations of the Early Baroque and Classical music periods.L’Oiseau-Lyre the French name for the Australian lyrebird was chosen by her; the company logo was a representation of the (displaying male) bird’s tail.Her aim was to produce historical editions of European composers of the 15th to 19th Centuries.