Kantorzysta: Polka na fortepiano, op. 68
Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld
ca. 1870
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This sheet music is for a humorous song in the style of a polka, an example of the popular music that Warsaw composer Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld was famous for.
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Courtesy Warsaw Public Library.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 6.
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