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La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein is an opéra bouffe (French comic opera), composed by Jacques Offenbach when his career was at its height. It premiered in 1867 and had performances at the Paris…
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Jacques Offenbach
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1867
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Interlocutors: Massimiano, Santino, and VeridicoSantino:What, does it seem to you, is a comedy, who was its first author, what is its purpose, is it rendered in verse or in…
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Judah Sommo
Places:
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1565
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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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Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1870
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So let’s drink whisky, brothers—
let’s hope we live to drink again.
Let’s drink now—enough of eating.
How can you forget about whisky for so long!
If we didn’t have whisky,
how would we live in this…
Contributor:
Mikhl Gordon
Places:
Žagarė, Russian Empire (Žagarė, Lithuania)
Date:
ca. 1868