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A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Veuve du Malabar, La

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3931788A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — Veuve du Malabar, LaGeorge GroveGeorge Grove


VEUVE DU MALABAR, LA. A French novel, by Lemiere, from which Spohr took the plot of his 'Jessonda.'[1] It has been burlesqued in 'Le Veuf du Malabar' by Siraudin and Busset, music by Doche (Opera Comique, May 27, 1846); and under its own title by Delacour and Cremieux, music by Hervé (Varietés, April 26, 1873).

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  1. See his Selbstbiographie,' ii. 149.