It was originally a poem called Un răsunet ( "An echo") written by the Transylvanian poet named Andrei Mureșanu during the Wallachian Revolution of 1848, and it was published in the same year in a Romanian magazine nameed "Foaie pentru minte, inimă și literatură". After hearing about the poem, a composer from Wallachia named Anton Pann made a melody for it. The author Andrei Mureșanu later chose this music for his poem after he asked a church singer named Gheorghe Ucenescu to sing a melody that would fit for him many times.