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Unknown Composition on Welte Licensee Roll
By Hans-W. Schmitz

Peter Phillips mentioned in his posting the Welte roll 2905 with the
opera "Mireille".  The Welte T-100 roll was released for the first
time in the British Welte catalogue of Oct. 1913 (see the German
catalog by Dangel/Schmitz).  The composer is indeed Gounod and the
artist, B. Goodall, apparently is a pseudonym of Richard Epstein.

Gounod's 1864 premiere performance in Paris of "Mireille" did not
succeed.  Therefore the December performance was altered with another
ending of the overture, and a valse-arietta, "O légère hirondelle", was
added to the revised first act.  A score of the second version should
include the valse.

Hans Schmitz
Stuttgart, Germany

 [ Hear the waltz aria, "O légère hirondelle", from "Mireille",
 [ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxfG5XuUby0  -- Robbie


(Message sent Mon 10 Jul 2017, 19:54:08 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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