Performances
Sheet Music
Scores
| Publisher. Info.
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Paris: Émile Benoît, n.d.
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| Copyright
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| Misc. Notes
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From the uploader's family archives
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| Purchase
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General Information
| Work Title
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Le Wagon des Nourrices
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| Alternative. Title
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Chansonette
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| Composer
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Teste, Auguste
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| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
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IAT 2
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| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
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6 verses
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| Librettist
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Gaston Villemer (1842–1892)
Lucien Delormel (1847–1899)
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| Language
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French
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| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Romantic
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| Piece Style
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Romantic
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| Instrumentation
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voice (presumably with piano accompaniment)
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Navigation etc.
Scant information from BNF : Auguste Pierre Marie TESTE, composer and singer. Birth date unknown, death : 21-04-1907.
The publisher's catalog on the back page, lists a number of Parisian "successes", among which a number of "comic scenes" and "comic songs" and other genres, tailored for men, and a plentiful list of songs better suited for women. TESTE is mentioned twice as a composer, but only in the first category.
The present song is not listed on BNF, and was sung by the composer himself, at the Café-Concert (or Music-Hall) called Le Concert Parisien, and it went on being sung by various artists in other Music Halls (l'Alcazar-d'Eté, La Scala, l'Eden-Concert, les Folies-Rambuteau), so we can surmise it was a "real" success.
