The score of this polka,
never played for more than a century,
was found by chance,
as scattered pages and covers,
in a pile of hundreds of scores
in the flea market of Athens, Greece.
"L' Amour Constant" is a lively polka
for piano, rather of the French type.
It was publiced in Corfu, Greece
in the late 19th, or in the early 20th century,
probably by the "Philarmonic Society of Corfu",
established in 1840,
and it is a manuscript transferred
to lithograph by "J.G.Lupis, Corfou".
The composer is mentioned as "P.Caravana".
He was the Greek Corfiot music teacher
and composer Petros Caravanas,
who was born in the second half
of the 19th century, and lived in Corfu.
His father was Frangiscos Caravanas,
a Corfiot of Italian ancestry,
a student of Nicolaos Mantzaros,
also a music teacher and a composer.
Petros Caravanas was a music teacher
of the "Philarmonic Society of Corfu"
in the late 19th century,
and the bandmaster from 1903 to 1918.
He probably died childless,
in Corfu, around 1940.
One of the many forgotten composers.
COMPOSER : P. CARAVANAS
RECORDING : COSTAS-X
IN MEMORY OF THE UNKNOWN COMPOSERS
