In a cafe in Lucca, my good friend Matteo Moriconi discovered this music sheet from 1933 owned by collector Piero Caniparoli. The music of "Topolino va soldato" was composed in 1933 by Carlo Alberto Pizzini.

According to a site about the composer, Walt Disney heard the music played in Rome on Saturday, July 20, 1935 during the special gala evening in his honor that he attended at the Roman Barberini film theater.

You can listen to a recording of the music at this link.

The blog will be updated again on October 14th.

I will be in Cannes and London most of next week. The blog will be updated again on Monday 15th.

I will be away for work until May 28th. See you all in two weeks (and a few of you slightly earlier).

I will be traveling to Brazil for business reasons until the end of the month. (Celbi, Fernando: no time to meet you this time around, unfortunately) The blog will be updated again on April 2.

We are about to leave on a long deserved vacation to Burma (Myanmar). There will be one automatic update of the blog on Monday (a great shot of Walt which I had never seen before). The blog will then be silent until March 1st.

Please note that I will probably have little or no access to emails until that date.

The blog will be updated again next Thursday.

We are taking a long-deserved vacation starting tomorrow, traveling to the North of Spain and the South-West of France. The blog will be updated again on May 9th.

I will be in LA for 10 days starting tomorrow. The blog will be updated again on February 22.

I am likely to be visiting Disneyland as well as Disney's California Adventures on February 12th and 13th. If this were confirmed, would any reader of the blog want to meet there? Please email me at didier.ghez@gmail.com if you do.

(And if you happen to work at Disneyland, could you please mention it in your email?)

I will be travelling to London on Tuesday and Wednesday. The site will be updated again on Thursday.

We are leaving for a 10-day vacation in Cuba tomorrow. The blog will be updated again on Monday, November 29.

I will be in Cannes from Monday to Wednesday next week. The blog will be updated again next Thursday.

I will be in Rome for the rest of the week for work. The blog will be updated again next Monday.

We will be travelling to Asturias tomorrow until Sunday. The blog will be updated again on Monday.

I am in Milan tomorrow. The blog will be updated again on Thursday.

I will be in London on Monday and Tuesday. The blog will be updated again next Wednesday.

I will be in Lisbon tomorrow and Thursday and Friday are holidays in Madrid, so the blog will probably not be updated until next Monday. Check it on Thursday, though, as I might find some time to post a few things.

I will be in London from Monday to Wednesday next week. The blog will be updated again on Thursday.

I will be in London on Monday and Tuesday. The blog will be updated again on Wednesday.