Deșteaptă-te, române!
The name of this song was first "Un răsunet" (meaning "An echo"). The words of the song was written by a poet from the region of Transylvania named Andrei Mureșanu during the Wallachian Revolution of 1848. Later that same year, it was published in a Romanian magazine. After hearing about the poem, a composer from the region of 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 his song many times.