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Although the tune has always been credited to Trrega, the Spanish composer had an inspiration of his own.

Grande Valse, the name of the ringtone, is also the name of a piece of music by Frdric Chopin.

And theres a moment in Chopins composition, around 1:33, that sounds remarkably like the Nokia startup theme.

Why did Nokia choose the Grande Valse A big selling point for using Trregas music was that the composer was long dead.

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Nokia needed a soundbite free of expensive copyright complications, and European law makes music available to the public 70 years after the composers death.

Shaped by an English musician called Thomas Dolby, the ringtone was first heard in a Nokia 1011 advert in 1992.

Seven years later, the Grande Valse was renamed as the Nokia tune, and it quickly became Nokias flagship ringtone and the brands defining soundbite.

Pop artists have sampled it In December 1999, Jimmy Cauty (formerly of The KLF) and Guy Pratt released I Wanna 1-2-1 With You, which heavily samples the theme.

It was released as a contender for the UK Christmas No.

In 2009, a report revealed that the tune is heard worldwide an estimated 1.8 billion times per day which works out at around 20,000 times per second.