It also speaks of a waltz rather than a march. “The other version gives the composer a different first name – Feodor – and calls him a Russified German.Later, with a slightly changed rhythm, it became the melody of ‘Dark Eyes’.” Napoleon was banished from Russia, but the music stayed. According to this version, he was an army bandleader, invading Russia with Napoleon’s army to the tune of his own military march. One version said that the tune’s author was a French composer Florian Hermann, who lived at the beginning of the 19th century. Curious, I searched further and got some confounding results. There were no comments, no biography – nothing. “I first saw this name when browsing the sheet music of Old Russian waltzes.Pianist Alexander Zlatkovski tells two stories about the composer: All that is known is the composer’s name, some F. The composer of the song is not well known.
Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Dmitri Hvorostovsky – Dark Eyes (Japan 2005) HD () Dmitri Hvorostovsky sings Ochi Chyornye (Russian-Ukrainian folk song, Chaliapin’s version)Īlthough often characterized as a Russian-Romani song, the words and music were written respectively by a Ukrainian poet Evheniy Grebenka.
