The work was written in March 1888 for a revue entitled Cent moins un staged at the house of the singer and patroness Madame Henriette Fuchs and was first performed at Fuch's house by Elisabeth Fuchs (her daughter) and Julien Tiersot (a music critic) in April 1888.
Julien Tiersot (5 July 1857, in Bourg-en-Bresse (Rhône-Alpes) – 10 August 1936, in Paris), was a French musicologist, composer and a pioneer in ethnomusicology.
Julien Duvivier | Julien Temple | Thaïs St Julien | Isaac Julien | Pauline Julien | Julien Clerc | Julien Cahn | Julien Kerneur | Saint-Julien-les-Villas | Julien Louis Geoffroy | Julien Lepers | Julien Dubuque | Julien Courbet | Julien Cosmao | Julien Bonnaire | Julien Benda | Julien Balkany | Guy Julien | Fort Julien | The simultaneous destruction of the ''Cordelière'' and the ''Regent'' depicted by Pierre-Julien Gilbert | Saint-Julien-l'Ars | Saint-Julien-en-Genevois | Saint-Julien-en-Champsaur | Saint-Julien-du-Puy | Saint-Julien-de-Coppel | Saint-Julien-de-Civry | Pierre-Julien Gilbert | Julien Tiersot | Julien Simon | Julien Pillet |