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An Albert Saléza fund was created from 21 handwritten notebooks relating the career of the French tenor, excerpts from press articles and photographs, all from the collection of Mylio Saléza (for photographs) and his wife Marie-Louise, who kept the memory of her father-in-law until her death in 1995.
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In 1912, after all these successes abroad, he returned to France and was appointed professor of lyric declamation at the
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At his places of work, his voice was noticed by two Basque music lovers, who introduced him to the director of the music school, Mr. Jubin, and then to his first teacher, Gaston
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where he became an assistant shepherd. But the country sickness forced him to return to his native commune where he became a sandal worker. Difficulty feeding led him to accept a job as a gravel digger on the Pau-Laruns railway, then as a sandaler in
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where he won again the first prize in singing and the second prize in opera before a jury composed notably of
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instead of the Opera which would have been too demanding so quickly. From his first role, Mylio in
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where he recovered his strength. He gained further renown by interpreting
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Biographie dans Bien Vivre à Bruges Capbis
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instruction, diction, singing, music... so much so that he won the
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