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Louis Varney
Person · male · France · New Orleans · born 1844 · died 1908 · recording since 1992
French composer (1844–1908)
Also known as ルイ・ヴェルネー
Timeline
4 events◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1▣ Album 1
1840s
1900s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Les Mousquetaires au couvent
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
Biography
English biography259 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1305308289
Biography
Louis Varney (French: [vaʁnɛ]; 30 May 1844, New Orleans, Louisiana – 20 August 1908, Cauterets, France) was a French composer.
Biography
Louis Varney was the son of Alphonse Varney, a French conductor at the Bouffes-Parisiens and at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, he was also invited to conduct the "French Opera Season" abroad, notably in New Orleans, Louisiana, and this is how Louis came to be born there in 1844.
He studied music with his father, and became first a conductor like him. He was conducting in a small theatre L'Athénée-Comique, while he began composing, he succeeded in having one of his work, Il signor Pulcinella presented there in 1876 with considerable success. He was then proposed by the director of the Bouffes-Parisiens, Louis Cantin, to write an operetta on a libretto by Paul Ferrier and Jules Prével, based on a comédie en vaudeville by St-Hilaire and Dupont from 1835, entitled L'habit ne fait pas le moine. Louis accepted and under a new title Les mousquetaires au couvent, it premiered at the Bouffes-Parisiens on 16 March 1880, and the success was absolute.
Varney went on writing some forty operettas, all of them noted for their musical elegance and good taste, sometimes closer in style to opéra-comique, amongst the most notable are; Fanfan la tulipe (1882), Babolin (1884), Les petits mousquetaires (1885), L'âge d'or (1905), all very popular in their time, some were even presented abroad, but nowadays all but forgotten.
Les mousquetaires au couvent is the only one to have survived total oblivion, and is still occasionally presented in France.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 4 | 75.9th |
| Recording span (years) | -84 | 5.3th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (1 release groups · 1 studio albums)
Albums · 1
1992 · studio album
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Tracklist · 36 tracks · 1:40:53
Disc 11Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act I. Ouverture3:132Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act I. "Sans vous chercher querelle" (Les mousquetaires, Jacqueline)1:543Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act I. Texte0:484Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act I. "Je sais, messieurs..." / "La Ronde des beaux mousquetaires" (Simone)3:545Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act I. Texte1:386Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act I. "Eh! Oui, c'est moi l'Abbé Bridaine" (L'Abbé Bridaine)2:167Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act I. Texte2:198Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act I. "Pour faire un brave mousquetaire" (Brissac)2:169Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act I. Texte1:0210Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act I. "Parle, explique-toi" (Brissaç Bridaine, Gontran)3:5911Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act I. Texte2:1712Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act I. "Quel plaisir" (Simone)4:5813Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act I. Texte4:0414Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act I. "Je voudrais bien savoir" (Bridaine, Simone, Gontran, Brissac, Chœurs)7:1015Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act II. Entr'acte1:4716Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act II. "Allons, mesdemoiselles, du silence!" (Les pensionnaires, Sœur Opportune)2:3117Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act II. Texte1:4918Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act II. "Que dites-vous de mon idée" (Mireille, Marie, les pensionnaires)5:01Disc 21Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act II. Texte1:132Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act II. "Je voudrais, qu'approchant sans crainte" (Gontran, Marie, Brissac)3:053Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act II. Texte4:204Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act II. "Curieuse..." (Louise)2:195Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act II. Texte2:496Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act II. "Il serait vrai, ce fut un songe" (Gontran)2:027Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act II. Texte1:058Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act II. "Gris, suis-je gris, vraiment?" (Brissac)4:049Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act II. Texte0:4010Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act II. "De la cloche qui nous appelle" (Les pensionnaires, Brissaç Bridaine, Gontran, Sœur Opportune, la Supérieure)6:3111Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act III. Entr'acte0:5012Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act III. "C'est inutile, ne te montre pas" (Bridaine, la patrouille)0:4013Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act III. Texte6:3814Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act III. "A la porte des révérends" (Simone)1:3615Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act III. Texte4:0416Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act III. "Prenons l'échelle" (Marie, Louise, Simone, Gontran, Brissac)1:2317Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act III. Texte3:4918Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Act III. "Dans le village..." (Tous)0:49
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Louis Varney head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 4 | 75.9th |
| Recording span (years) | -84 | 5.3th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Knight of the Legion of Honour | won |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_Varney.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/733f1faa-4be4-45df-a3f3-dcea446119cfdiscography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/733f1faa-4be4-45df-a3f3-dcea446119cfcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q445083genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q445083seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Varneybiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Varney
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Image: unidentified photographer · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q445083 · MusicBrainz: 733f1faa-4be4-45df-a3f3-dcea446119cf
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