Saaremaa Waltz

Saaremaa Waltz (Estonian: Saaremaa valss) is an Estonian song (schlager) which was created in 1949 by Raimond Valgre. Song's words comes from poem "Talgud Lööne soos" written by Debora Vaarandi. The most notable version is sung by Georg Ots.[1]

Road sign "Birthplace of the Saaremaa Waltz"
Memorial stone of the song

The song is popular also in Finland. Finnish words is created by Ilkka Kortesniemi.

References
  1. "Valgre, Raimond | Estonian Music Information Centre". www.emic.ee (in Estonian). Retrieved 21 April 2020.


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