Périgueux
Périgueux (, ; oc, Peireguers or ) is a communes of France, commune in the Dordogne departments of France, department, in the administrative regions of France, administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France.
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, 5 May 1904 - Paris, 17 December 1990) was a French composer of
operetta
Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs, and dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, length of the work, and at face value, subject matter. Apart from its s ...
s and popular songs.Benoît Duteurtre L'opérette en France 1997 - 202029902X Page 153 "Musicien raffiné, entre opérette classique et comédie musicale, Guy Lafarge (1904-1990) donnait avant-guerre Niquette (1930), Carabas et Cie (1932) sur des rythmes de rumba ou Monsieur Papillon (1934). Pendant la guerre, il compose La Course à l'amour (1941) où débute le jeune Guétary. Dans les années 1950, il donne plusieurs ouvrages humoristiques: Il faut marier maman (1950) sur un livret de Marc Cab, créé notamment par Denise Grey ; puis un « marivaudage » : La Leçon d'amour dans un parc (1951) ; et une « folie...Lafarge composera encore de nombreuses pièces créées en province : Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (Strasbourg, 1966), L'Œuf à voiles (Nantes, 1977), Le Petit Café (Mulhouse, 1980), composé avec Jack Ledru, et d'autres partitions restées inédites, dans le vent"
Selected compositions
Operettas
*Niquette (1930)
*Carabas et Cie (1932)
*Monsieur Papillon (1934)
*La Course à l'amour (1941)
*Il faut marier maman (1950)
*La Leçon d'amour dans un parc (1951)
*Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (Strasbourg, 1966)
*L'Œuf à voiles (Nantes, 1977)
*Le Petit Café (Mulhouse, 1980) and La Cagnotte (Lille) with
Deauville
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Maurice Chevalier
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and
Colette Renard
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, as well as by
Bing Crosby
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La Belle amour
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", lyrics by Francis Carco, entry of
France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1957
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Film music
*Music for the 1953 film ''
La môme vert-de-gris
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