The Archive · 1899

The Value of Music

Some curious statistics have been worked out with reference to Lecocq's famous comic opera La Fille de Madame Angot, which was revived here last year and is still gain; merrily on, The piece has been playa more than 1,200 times in Paris and 20,000 times in the world. It has been translated of adapted into fourteen different languages and has earned more than 90 million francs, or about 4,000,000 francs for each of the 24 Numbers. This represents about £2,000 for every note in the melody.

10th March.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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