Lule Bore is a song composed in 1946 by Albanian

Albanians

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 composer Simon Gjoni

Simon Gjoni

Simon Gjoni was an Albanian composer of many popular pieces for piano and orchestra.-Life:Gjoni was born on October 28, 1925 in the city of Shkodër, Albania. He was educated in a rank and file urban family and graduated from the "Illyricum" High School of the city...

. Lule bore means Hortensia in English

English language

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, but literally snowflower in Albanian

Albanian language

Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...

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History of the song

Simon Gjoni composed the piece in 1946 when Gjoni was a teacher at the high school in Shkoder. He fell in love with 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

Çesk Zadeja was an Albanian composer. A native of Shkodër, he studied in Moscow and did much to promote the arts in Tirana.He is also called "The Father of the Albanian Music".-Discography:...

 as an unrepeatable model of the Albanian lyric. The song was an extraordinary success in a 1956 Moscow

Moscow

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 concert where the trio Avni Mula

Avni Mula

Avni Mula is a famous Albanian singer, composer and musician. For his contribution, he has received some of the highest recognition medals from the Albanian government, the People's Artist of Albania decoration and the Honor of the Nation decoration.-Personal life:His family moved from Gjakova to...

-Athanas-Ibrahim Tukiqi

Ibrahim Tukiqi

Ibrahim Tukiqi is a well known 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 Opera and Ballet of Albania....

 masterly interpreted it in front of a Russian public. The success repeated itself in a Youth Festival in 1961 in Vienna

Vienna

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 The song is very often sang by Albanian-American

Albanian-American

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communities in their gatherings.

External links

• Instrumental interpretation of Lule Bore