# Gypsy Jazz: Great Technique Building and Maintenance Piece

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**Created:** [January 12, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/gypsy-jazz-great-technique-building-and-maintenance-piece/73927 "2024-01-12T20:45:30Z")
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[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2Sasi9-MSRQ/hqdefault.jpg "Hora Martisorului on guitar with Tablature ! played by Daniel Beja") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sasi9-MSRQ)

> **[HORA MARTISORULUI](https://www.soundslice.com/slices/P1xMc/)**
>
> Hora Martisorului transcription ! Version on my new album "Adieu Paris"..
> Listen / Buy here the album, digital or cd ... with pdf transcriptions: https://www.guitarsession.net/product/adieu-paris/
> I'll post new transcription each week !! Hope...

Igor Paspalj also has a cover of this song from along time ago.

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CDIrDxDY_K8/hqdefault.jpg "Igor Paspalj - Hora Martisor (Romanian Dance)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDIrDxDY_K8)

History of the piece.

[Composer: Grigoraș Ionică Dinicu (Violin & Composer)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigora%C8%99_Dinicu)

> **Grigoraș Ionică Dinicu** (Romanian: [[ɡriɡoˈraʃ joˈnikə diˈniku]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Romanian); April 3, 1889 – March 28, 1949) was a [Romanian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania) [violin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin) virtuoso and [composer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composer) of [Roma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people) ethnicity. He is most famous for his often-played virtuoso [violin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin) showpiece “[Hora staccato](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hora_staccato)” (1906) and for making popular the tune [Ciocârlia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cioc%C3%A2rlia_(folk_tune)), composed by his grandfather Angheluș Dinicu[[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigora%C8%99_Dinicu#cite_note-1)[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigora%C8%99_Dinicu#cite_note-2) for “nai” (the Romanian [pan flute](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_flute)). It is rumored that [Jascha Heifetz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz) once said that Grigoraș Dinicu was the greatest violinist he had ever heard. In the 1930s he was involved in the political movement of the [Romanian Roma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_in_Romania) and was made honorary president of the “General Union of the Romanian Roma”.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigora%C8%99_Dinicu#cite_note-3) **Other well known compositions are: _Hora mărțișorului_ (_Mărțișor_, literally “little March”, is a major Romanian seasonal holiday on March 1),** _Ceasornicul_ (_The Clock_) and _Căruța poștei_ (_The Post Wagon_).

![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4C-ZA_uga74/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/4C-ZA_uga74?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque