LC control no. | n 81028028 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Varney, Louis, 1844-1908 |
Birth date | 1844-05-30 |
Death date | 1908-08-20 |
Place of birth | New Orleans (La.) |
Place of death | Cauterets (France) |
Profession or occupation | Composers |
Found in | His Princesse Bébé ... 1902. Wikipedia, October 22, 2020 (Louis Varney; Louis Varney (30 May 1844, New Orleans, Louisiana--20 August 1908, Cauterets, France) was a French composer; Varney wrote forty operettas, all of them noted for their musical elegance and good taste, sometimes closer in style to opéra-comique, amongst the most notable are; Fanfan la tulipe (1882), Babolin (1884), Les petits mousquetaires (1885), L'âge d'or (1905), all very popular in their time, some were even presented abroad, but nowadays all but forgotten; Les mousquetaires au couvent is the only one to have survived total oblivion, and is still occasionally presented in France) |