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Waves of the Danube

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Iosif (Josef) Ivanovici

Born: 1845 in Timişoara, Romania
Died: September 28, 1902 in Bucharest, Romania


Ivanovici wrote over 350 dance pieces and marches, and his works
were published by no less than 60 publishing houses around the world.

Except for his waltz, 'Valurile Dunari' (The Waves of the Danube),
which won the coveted composition prize at the World Exhibition in
Paris in 1889, none of his other music is known today.

In 1946 its distinctive main theme gained renewed familiarity when
adapted by Al Jolson and Saul Chaplin as the 'Anniversary Song'
('Oh! how we danced on the night we were wed') in the film
'The Jolson Story'.

Ivanovici's music is very much in the style of Johann Strauss and
his contemporaries, but is strongly influenced by Romania's own
musical traditions, which makes it refreshingly different.

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