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, but literally ''snowflower'' in
Albanian
Albanian may refer to:
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.
History of the song
Simon Gjoni composed the piece in 1946 when he was 21 and a teacher at a high school in Shkodër. He was inspired by the beauty of one of his students during a rare snowday in the city. That day he asked poet Zef Pali for a short text for a song to represent the girl as a snowflower in the text itself, and Pali prepared the poem that same day. Gjoni added the music to the words. Since when the song was first played its melody has been one of the most popular themes in the Albanian music and has been considered by critique and composer
Çesk Zadeja
Çesk Zadeja (8 June 1927, Shkodër – 15 August 1997, Rome) was an Albanian composer. A native of Shkodër, he studied in Moscow and did much to promote the arts in Tirana. He is known as "The Father of Albanian Music". The song was an extraordinary success in a 1956
Moscow
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concert where the trio
Avni Mula
Avni Mula (4 January 1928 in Gjakova – 29 October 2020 in Tirana) was an Albanian singer and composer. For his contribution to the arts, he received two of the highest awards from the Albanian government: the People's Artist of Albania decorat ...
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Ibrahim Tukiqi
Ibrahim Tukiçi (1926–2004), was an Albanian singer. He was born in Shkodër, Albania. He studied for canto in the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and graduated in 1957. After finishing the studies in 1957 he got a job at the National Theatre of Ope ...
masterly interpreted it in front of a Russian public. The success repeated itself in a ''Youth Festival'' in 1961 in
Vienna
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The song is very often sung by
Albanian-American
Albanian Americans () are Americans of full or partial Albanian ancestry and heritage in the United States. They trace their ancestry to the territories with a large Albanian population in the Balkans and southern Europe, including Albania, Ital ...