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Jacqueline’s Tears, Les Larmes de Jacqueline, Op. 76 No. 2 / Harmonies du soir Op. 68, composed by Jacques Offenbach. Performance by Werner Thomas and the Münchener Kammerorchester / Munich Chamber Orchestra. Dedicated to the legendary cellist Jacqueline du Pré.

The images portray nostalgic, romantic, some gothic, mainly Victorian and Edwardian art in old, traditional churchyards full of mysticism and romanticism. These breathtaking, beautiful and moving sculptures and statues can be found at peaceful and majestic Highgate Cemetery in London, Le Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris, and at cemeteries in Rome and other places in Europe and the United States.

The forgotten animals, such as foxes and stray cats who not many care about, are the rightful inhabitants of graveyards. These places are their peaceful sanctuaries. Hopefully, there is always some lady or man with a big and kind heart who gives them something to eat and drink. Perhaps not all of them are good mice hunters.


Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the romantic period. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr. and Arthur Sullivan. His best-known works were continually revived during the 20th century, and many of his operettas continue to be staged in the 21st. The Tales of Hoffman remains part of the standard opera repertory.

Born in Cologne, Offenbach showed early musical talent. At the age of 14, he was accepted as a student at the Paris Conservatoire but found academic study unfulfilling and left after a year. From 1835 to 1855 he earned his living as a cellist, achieving international fame, and as a conductor. His ambition, however, was to compose comic pieces for the musical theatre. Finding the management of Paris' Opéra-Comique company uninterested in staging his works, in 1855 he leased a small theatre in the Champs-Élysées. There, he presented a series of his own small-scale pieces, many of which became popular.

In 1858, Offenbach produced his first full-length operetta, Orphée aux enfers ("Orpheus in the Underworld"), which was exceptionally well received and has remained one of his most played works. During the 1860s, he produced at least 18 full-length operettas, as well as more one-act pieces. His works from this period included La belle Hélène (1864), La vie parisienne (1866), La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (1867) and La Périchole (1868).

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