The Waves of the Danube
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The Danube Waves (Romanian: Valurile Dunării)(— listen here — a waltz) a waltz by Ion Ivanovici is perhaps the most famous Romanian tune in the world. It was performed at the 1889 Paris Exposition and took the audience by storm.
The waltz has become extremely widely known around the world. In the US it is most often known only as the Anniversary Song thanks to addition of words and an arrangement attributed to Al Jolson and Saul Chaplin. It features in the film The Jolson Story.[1]
The melody of the Waves of the Danube is well known in Korea thanks to the famous soprano Youn Shim-Deok. It is known there as The Psalm of Death.
A film dealing with World War II titled Valurile Dunării and directed by Liviu Ciulei was produced in Romania in 1959, and the tune was used in the film.
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- ^ From James J. Fuld's Book of World-Famous Music (5th ed., 2000, pp. 622-623): Waves of the Danube
