River Flows In You by Yiruma
River Flows in You is a piano piece by Yiruma, released in 2001 on his second album, First Love. The album recording lasts about three minutes and is written in A major. Yiruma, who moved to England at the age of ten and studied at King's College London, has described how it began. Staying in London, he was playing notes on an upright piano while a television advert for the dance show Riverdance was on, and he noticed that the fingers of his right hand seemed to dance on the keys, which is how the word river entered the title. He has said the piece came together almost spontaneously, with a repeating left-hand figure underneath an Irish-style melody in the right hand, and that he did not expect much of it. More generally, he has said he likes simple, catchy melodies that can appeal to many people. The piece is built on recurring patterns and repetition, and Classic FM's writer compares its structure to a pop song more than to a classical piano work. By 2020 it had passed 100 million views on YouTube, according to Billboard. Twilight is often tied to it in viewers' minds, but the piece was not on the film's original soundtrack. His SOLO project, released in 2021 for the 20th anniversary of his debut as a composer, includes it, and Faber Music publishes his own authorised scores in Yiruma SOLO: Original.
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River Flows in You is a piano piece by Yiruma, released in 2001 on his second album, First Love. The album recording lasts about three minutes and is written in A major. Yiruma, who moved to England at the age of ten and studied at King's College London, has described how it began.
Staying in London, he was playing notes on an upright piano while a television advert for the dance show Riverdance was on, and he noticed that the fingers of his right hand seemed to dance on the keys, which is how the word river entered the title. He has said the piece came together almost spontaneously, with a repeating left-hand figure underneath an Irish-style melody in the right hand, and that he did not expect much of it. More generally, he has said he likes simple, catchy melodies that can appeal to many people.
The piece is built on recurring patterns and repetition, and Classic FM's writer compares its structure to a pop song more than to a classical piano work. By 2020 it had passed 100 million views on YouTube, according to Billboard. Twilight is often tied to it in viewers' minds, but the piece was not on the film's original soundtrack. His SOLO project, released in 2021 for the 20th anniversary of his debut as a composer, includes it, and Faber Music publishes his own authorised scores in Yiruma SOLO: Original.