Edward Jakobowski

[2] At age six, he moved to Vienna, Austria, where he lived for some 15 years and was given a musical education.

It was revived extensively and toured internationally,[4] playing with extraordinary success on Broadway from 1886.

[3] For two Victorian burlesques, The Three Beggars (1883) and Little Carmen (1884), Jakobowski used the pen name Edward Belville.

[8] Two short operettas in 1893 with libretti by B. C. Stephenson, The Improvisatore and A Venetian Singer, made little impact.

[9] Jakobowski was married twice, the second time in New York in 1895 to Clara Brown,[10] which ended in a London divorce in 1901.