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The Merry Widow is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz
Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story â concerning
a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality
by finding her the right husband â on an 1861 comedy play, L'attaché d'ambassade
(The Embassy Attaché) by H