Simon Gjoni composed the piece in 1946[1] when he was 21 and a teacher at a high school in Shkodër. He was inspired by the beauty of one of his students during a rare snowday in the city.[2] That day he asked poet Zef Pali for a short text for a song to represent the girl as a snowflower in the text itself, and Pali prepared the poem that same day.[2] Gjoni added the music to the words. Since when the song was first played its melody has been one of the most popular themes in the Albanian music and has been considered by critique and composer Çesk Zadeja as an unrepeatable model of the Albanian lyric.[1] The song was an extraordinary success in a 1956 Moscow concert where the trio Avni Mula-Athanas-Ibrahim Tukiqi masterly interpreted it in front of a Russian public. The success repeated itself in a Youth Festival in 1961 in Vienna[1] The song is very often sung by Albanian-American communities in their gatherings.[1]