The Werner Icking Music Archive is justly named in honour of the man who devoted years of time and effort to hosting, maintaining, and enlarging this Internet repository of quality sheet music. However, none of us who have contributed to the Archive or who read the TeX-Music list (or its predecessor, MuTeX) can fail to be aware that, without Daniel Taupin, the Archive might never have existed at all and would certainly not exist in its present form; for Daniel was the creator of the music typesetting system with which much of the Archive's contents was produced.Daniel Taupin held a Doctorate in Physics and worked at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides de l'Université de Paris-Sud at Orsay. He was the author of "Probabilities data reduction and error analysis in the physical sciences" (Editions de physiques 1988).In the world of TeX, Daniel Taupin's contributions included work on ltx2rtf and the conversion of TrueType fonts to Metafont. His major legacy in this field, however, is his monumental music typesetting system, MusiXTeX. It is a tribute to his achievement that even Donald Knuth acknowledged its quality with a link on his own Web site leading to the MusiXTeX information on the Icking Archive site.

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