Notes and text of a Brazilian folk song “And the Danube escaped…”(O Danube azulou …)
Brazil ,
June 1953
МЗСБ КП 4858
29 х 20 cm
paper, typographic printing, pencil, ink
Notes and text of a Brazilian folk song "And the Danube escaped..."(O Danube azulou ...), performed during the war in connection with the victory at Stalingrad and the capture of Berlin. Recorded in a music notebook by a pianist Ionisie Katunda, who visited Stalingrad in June 1953. The notes and lyrics in a fake book (published in the USSR in 1952) were written by Eunice Katunda, a Brazilian pianist, who visited Stalingrad in June 1953. The inscription on the first page reads: “Marcha popular brasileira / Cantado durame a guerra por ocasiáo da vitoria de Stalingrado, alé a tomada de Berlim”
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