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Unknown Tunes on 10-tune Musical Box
By Richard Dutton

[ Ref. 191027 MMDigest & https://youtu.be/k8sQK5Dm8gs
Attachment thumbnail I have listened to all of the unidentified cylinder music box tunes that Eric Stott inquired about in 191027 MMDigest and the only one that I recognize is the eighth one. It appeared on roller ("cob") #182 for the 20-note cob roller organ under the title "Life Let Us Cherish", and a list of cobs available in 1885 that appeared in a catalog of that year and in many cases included composers' names listed the composer of the tune as "W. A. Mozart" (the great classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791). Also, there is undated sheet music in the Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection at Johns Hopkins University (online at http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/ ) with a date assigned of "1799-1803" that is headed "Life Let Us Cherish. A Favorite Ballad Composed by Mozart. Arranged also with Variations by the same Author". H. C. Colles, Ed., Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 3rd Ed. (New York, MacMillan, 1935), Theodore Baker, comp., A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (New York, G. Schirmer, 1900). Other sources, however, instead attribute the tune to the well-known Swiss composer, teacher, author and music publisher Hans Nageli (1773- 1836), who wrote and published a large number of songs with piano accompaniment. Its title in German was "Freut euch des Lebens" and it was published in 1794. Richard Dutton

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