[HANASHIR:4876] Re: hatikvah

[Adrian Durlester <durleste...>]

Actually, Shimon Cohen and others discredit the "Moldau" theory. Shimon, who
belongs to one of Israel's founding families, claims the original source is
a Roumanian folk tune called, I believe, the Donkey and the Cart. Smetana's
"The Moldau" simply utilized this and other folk melodies.

The author of HaTikvah is, most assuredly, N. H. Imber.

Adrian

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Janeen,

You do know that a major part of the melody of Hatikvah was taken from
Smetana's
Moldau .  The Moldau is the 2nd of 6 symphonic poems written by Smetana
around 1872.
The entire cycle of 6 poems is titled Ma Vlast and the second movement was
called Vltava --
the name of a river which in German is called the Moldau.  The melody which
is the
predominant theme in this movement is based on an old Czech folk song.  This
folk melody is
what Hatikvah was based on.

Judy :)


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