Two Guitars

Two Guitars (Две гитары) is a popular Russian Gypsy folk-song composed by Ivan Vasiliev with lyrics by Apollon Grigoriev. It appears in the 1943 comedy movie His Butler's Sister where it was sung by Deanna Durbin.

Ivan Vasiliev (1810 - 1870) was choir director of a famous nineteenth-century Gypsy ensemble in Russia. After hearing the ensemble play, the poet Apollon Grigoriev (1822 - 1864) was inspired to write a poem, which he named Two Guitars, and for which Vasiliev was inspired to compose a lively melody.

Tutorial

• At Tempo, then Slow

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