Here's how to play the famous "Trololo Song" by Eduard Khil ("Mr. Trololo") on piano!

The Trololo Song is actually a Russian song written by Arkady Ostrovsky, which became an internet meme thanks to a video of a performance by Eduard Khil (Эдуа́рд Анато́льевич Хиль).

With this sheet music, you get a piano transcription of the full song - it?s an accurate arrangement which is playable, and sounds beautiful!

The full melody is included in the piano part, so it makes for a perfect instrumental (piano solo) cover.

Composed by Arkady Ostrovsky, the song's original title is "Я о́чень рад, ведь я, наконе́ц, возвраща́юсь домо́й" (Ya Ochen'rad, Ved'ya, Nakonee, Vozvraschayaus' Domoi, "I am very glad, as I'm finally returning back home").

Eduard Khil performed the song in 1976, replacing the song's lyrics with meaningless syllables like "lololo", "lalala", "nanana" and "trololo".
The video of his performance went viral in 2010, and made him a worldwide internet meme - he became known as "Mr. Trololo" or the "Trololo Guy", and everbody knows the song as the "Trololo Song" or just "Trololo".

It's a catchy tune, and fun to play on the piano!

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Thalberg (1812-1871) was a renowned piano virtuoso and composer. His technical specialty, since widely imitated, was to play a central melody with the thumb of either hand and surrounding it with brilliant arpeggios and arabesques.

Sigismond Thalberg was one of the most famous and most successful piano composers of the 19th century. During the 1830s and the 1840s his style was a major force in European piano-playing. He was greatly in fashion and was imitated by others. In 1852, Wilhelm von Lenz wrote:

'The piano playing of the present day, to tell the truth, consists only of Thalberg simple, Thalberg amended, and Thalberg exaggerated; scratch what is written for the piano, and you will find Thalberg.'

Ten years later, in 1862, a London correspondent of the Revue et gazette musicale wrote:

'Nobody in fact has been so much imitated; his manner has been parodied, exaggerated, twisted, tortured, and it may have happened more than once to all of us to curse this Thalbergian school'.
Expressions like "exaggerated", "twisted" and "tortured" indicate that some contemporaries were starting to feel jaded of his style. It was at this time when Thalberg's career as composer and as virtuoso came to an end.

In the late 19th century, Thalberg's fame had come to depend on his association with a single piano technique, the 'three-hand effect'. Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, in his Geschichte des Klavierspiels (1879), wrote about this.

'His bravura pieces, fantasies on melodies from Rossini's Mosè and La donna del lago, on motifs from Bellini's Norma and on Russian folk-songs, became extraordinarily popular through his own, brilliant execution; however, they treat their subjects always in one and the same way, [namely] ... to let the tones of a melody be played in the medium octave of the keyboard now by the thumb of the right, now of the left hand, while the rest of the fingers are executing arpeggios filling the whole range of the keyboard'.

Koroboneiki, the 19th-century Russian folk song commonly known as the Tetris theme song, arranged for piano.