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VALSE - Gatien MARCAILHOU(Aix-les-Thermes1807...

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VALSE - Gatien MARCAILHOU(Aix-les-Thermes1807 - 1855, composer, teacher of Gabriel Fauré, said to be the true creator of the French waltz, very famous in his time, he was the lover of George Sand) / Manuscrit musical d'une valse, composed, dedicated and signed in his own hand, 2 ½ pages oblong in-folio (one corner missing, no damage), toMr BARBA(presumably the publisher and bookseller Jean-Nicolas Barba, 1769-1846), on the back, old handwritten note: "Marcailhou inédit".