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Waves Of The Danube
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Browse piano sheets by Iosif Ivanovici on Zen Virtual Piano. Iosif Ivanovici was born in Temesvár, today Timișoara, Romania, and his interest in music began after he learned to play a flute given to him as a child by a sympathetic old man. On growing up he enrolled in the 6th Army Regiment based in Galați, where he also learned to play the clarinet under Alois Riedl, and he continued to study in Iași under Emil Lehr. A flute given by an old man and a place in a military band show music reaching him through very different doors. He played flute and clarinet in a Galați military band and organized his own band there in 1880, rose to become a bandmaster and toured around Romania, and conducted several military bands. His waltz “Waves of the Danube” (“Valurile Dunării”) was composed in 1880 and first published in Bucharest that year, dedicated to Emma Gebauer, the wife of the music publisher Constantin Gebauer. A band of his own and a waltz both tied to 1880 make that year a central point in his story. Émile Waldteufel made an orchestration of the piece in 1886, which was performed for the first time at the 1889 Paris Exposition and took the audience by storm. In 1889 Ivanovici won the march prize to mark the World Exhibition in Paris out of 116 entries, and he conducted at the Paris Exposition. An orchestration by Émile Waldteufel and a prize for a march at a world’s fair show his name moving beyond the band rooms of Romania. In the United States “Waves of the Danube” is frequently called “The Anniversary Song,” a title given by Al Jolson when he and Saul Chaplin released an adaptation of it in 1946, with Jolson and Chaplin writing the lyrics and Chaplin adapting Ivanovici’s music. He wrote over 350 dance pieces and marches, and his works were published by over sixty publishing houses throughout the world. Hundreds of pieces and dozens of publishers stand behind a single waltz, a reminder of how much of a composer’s output can go unremarked. He was appointed general inspector of military music in 1900, settled in Bucharest in 1901 and died there a year later.
Browse piano sheets by Iosif Ivanovici on Zen Virtual Piano.
Iosif Ivanovici was born in Temesvár, today Timișoara, Romania, and his interest in music began after he learned to play a flute given to him as a child by a sympathetic old man. On growing up he enrolled in the 6th Army Regiment based in Galați, where he also learned to play the clarinet under Alois Riedl, and he continued to study in Iași under Emil Lehr. A flute given by an old man and a place in a military band show music reaching him through very different doors.
He played flute and clarinet in a Galați military band and organized his own band there in 1880, rose to become a bandmaster and toured around Romania, and conducted several military bands. His waltz “Waves of the Danube” (“Valurile Dunării”) was composed in 1880 and first published in Bucharest that year, dedicated to Emma Gebauer, the wife of the music publisher Constantin Gebauer. A band of his own and a waltz both tied to 1880 make that year a central point in his story.
Émile Waldteufel made an orchestration of the piece in 1886, which was performed for the first time at the 1889 Paris Exposition and took the audience by storm. In 1889 Ivanovici won the march prize to mark the World Exhibition in Paris out of 116 entries, and he conducted at the Paris Exposition. An orchestration by Émile Waldteufel and a prize for a march at a world’s fair show his name moving beyond the band rooms of Romania.
In the United States “Waves of the Danube” is frequently called “The Anniversary Song,” a title given by Al Jolson when he and Saul Chaplin released an adaptation of it in 1946, with Jolson and Chaplin writing the lyrics and Chaplin adapting Ivanovici’s music. He wrote over 350 dance pieces and marches, and his works were published by over sixty publishing houses throughout the world. Hundreds of pieces and dozens of publishers stand behind a single waltz, a reminder of how much of a composer’s output can go unremarked. He was appointed general inspector of military music in 1900, settled in Bucharest in 1901 and died there a year later.
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The waltz “Waves of the Danube” (“Valurile Dunării”), composed in 1880 and first published in Bucharest that year; in the United States it is often called “The Anniversary Song.”
The march prize to mark the World Exhibition in Paris, out of 116 entries.
He was appointed general inspector of military music in 1900 and held the post until his death in 1902.