Nokia’s then-Vice President of Corporate Design, Anssi Vanjoki, reportedly pulled the phrase from the composition in the early 1990s. The specific segment used by Nokia is the 13th bar of the piece. By extracting those few seconds, Nokia bridged a gap between 19th-century Spanish romanticism and 21st-century mobile technology.
While it sounds like a product of pure digital synthesis, the melody actually belongs to the world of 19th-century classical music. old nokia ringtone