ANDRE RIEU - ELVIRA MADIGAN THEME (MOZART PIANO CONCERTO 21 ANDANTE)

“...And every winter (to)change to spring...“. Theme from the 1967 film “Elvira Madigan“ based on the love tragedy of the Danish tightrope dancer Hedvig Jensen (born 1867), working under the stage name of Elvira Madigan at her stepfather’s travelling circus, who ran away with the deserter Swedish lieutenant Sixten Sparre (born 1854) to Denmark in June 1889, When they ran out of money, they packed a picnic basket, went out to the Nørreskov (“North forest“) on the island Tåsinge, Denmark, and had a last meal, after which Sparre shot Madigan and himself with his service revolver (Wikipedia).
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