Re: 980912 MMDigest, Song Titles of G. Perlee 22-Key Organ Books
"Les Cloches de Corneville" is an operetta by (Jean) Robert Planquette,
who lived from 1848 until 1903. The piece dates from 1877 and its
music features on many music boxes. I think the title correctly
translates as the bells, rather than the clocks, of Cornville.
Michael Woolf
New Zealand
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