Rezső Seress

I remember when I was five, my dad was playing the piano in the next room from my bed, and I heard that beautiful melody that just touched me immediately.

The next morning, I said, what was that song that you were playing yesterday?

He said, you are still a little one, so please don't even think about it.

Forget it.

When you will be an adult, it will be okay, but now it's not.

Rezo Seres was growing up in a very poor Jewish family in Hungary, but he didn't go to school to learn the piano.

He himself just was sitting from the piano and with the right hand started to discover the keyboard, what kind of sound is coming from what note.

paintings, arts, theater, everything.

Paris was the center.

He had a girlfriend with him, so he thought that the doors of life are opening for him.

Everyone thought, who is this amateur?

He didn't really succeed in Paris.

He did not succeed at all.

When she saw that he didn't become famous, he didn't get the money, he didn't succeed the way how they expected.

So she just said, okay, bye-bye.

And that moment, in that gloomy afternoon, on that Sunday, a sad and mysterious melody started to appear in the mind of Seres.

The beginning of the song, a beautiful, inviting, dark sound with those ascending arpeggio of a minor chord.

All together, the melody, the phrasing, the text that he uses there to describe his pain and his sadness is just so lovely.

And it's a very sympathetic way stated everything, no complaining, still offering the love.

I know that you left me, I know this all, but please know that I love you forever and