Fame in Other Countries
- The tune, along with the corresponding lyrics used in the movie Valurile Dunării, was very popular in China beginning in the 1960s.
- The melody of "Waves of the Danube" has been well known in Korea, since the 1920s, thanks to the soprano Youn Shim-Deok. It is known there as "The Psalm of Death".
- The interlude of "Jeena Yehann Maranaa Yehann" in the Bollywood film Mera Naam Joker uses this tune.
- In Peru, an instrumental recording from Grady Martin is the best known and the most popular. It is played both at weddings and quinceañeras.
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—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
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