Artist: Giacomo Puccini
Author: Giacomo Puccini/Giacosa/Illica
Year: 1896
From his opera La Bohème. French title: Valse Musette; English title: Musetta's Waltz.
Covers:
Della Reese [n°2 US as Don't You Know]
Puccini started working on La Bohème the moment he heard his rival Ruggero Leoncavallo was writing a similar opera and finished it one year earlier. See also: Un Bel Di and E Lucevan Le Stelle.
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