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Waves of the Danube" (Romanian: Valurile Dunării) is a waltz composed by Iosif Ivanovici in 1880, and is one of the most famous Romanian tunes in the world. The song has many variations throughout the piece, reminiscent of the music of Johann Strauss. Through the Viennese style variations, there is still a distinct Slavic style.
Ion Ivanovici (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Ивановић) (alternatively: Jovan Ivanović, Iosif Ivanovici, Josef Ivanovich) (1845 – 28 September [O.S. 16 September] 1902) was a Romanian military band conductor and composer of Banat Serbian origin, best remembered today for his waltz Waves of the Danube.
The "Beautiful Blue Danube" was first written as a song for a carnival choir (for bass and tenor), with rather satirical lyrics (Austria having just lost a war with Prussia). [1] The original title was also referring to a poem about the Danube in the poet Karl Isidor Beck's hometown, Baja in Hungary, and not in Vienna.
The song is set to the tune of "Waves of the Danube" by Ion Ivanovici. [4] Two films have been made about Yun. The first, a 1969 film titled Yun Sim-Deok, was directed by An Hyeon-cheol (안현철) and starred Moon Hee. [5] The second was a 1991 film called Death Song, directed by Kim Ho-sun and starring Chang Mi-hee.
the waves of the Danube were swinging me, the wheat of Vojvodina was caressing me. Srem, Banat and Bačka are connected there, three heroic hearts embrace each other there, there even a child loves the farm where it was born, there a heart fights against steel. The wolves attacked my farm, the Germans and Turks burned my farm,
After all, what is the meaning of "Auld Lang Syne"? "Auld Lang Syne" has its origins in the Scottish language, which explains why so much of it may as well be Greek to most of us.
The Waves of the Danube (Romanian: Valurile Dunării) is a 1960 Romanian film irected by Liviu Ciulei and based on a screenplay by Francisc Munteanu and Titus Popovici. Cast [ edit ]
[5] [6] A year later, in 1966, those two recordings, alongside versions of a theme from Charles Gounod's opera Faust and Ion Ivanovici's waltz "Waves of the Danube", were released by Yugoslav record label Jugoton on the EP Humoreska (Humoresque). [1]