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Music portal The main articles for this category are Accordion and Music of Italy . This is a collection of articles on nationals of Italy who played accordion at a level that it is defining for them.
Alessandra Mignacca (born c.1977/78) – Italian accordion player, teacher; Joey Miskulin (born 1949) American accordionist, also member of western music and comedy group Riders in the Sky; Brian Mitchell – member of Fatboy Kanootch, Levon Helm Band; Aniceto Molina (1939–2015) – Colombian musician
This is a list of articles describing popular music acts that incorporate the accordion. The accordion appeared in popular music from the 1900s-1960s. This half century is often called the "Golden Age of the Accordion." Three players: Pietro Frosini, and the two brothers Count Guido Deiro and Pietro Deiro were major influences at this time.
George Antheil—of Ballet mécanique fame: Accordion Dance for accordion and orchestra (1951) John Serry, Sr.: American Rhapsody (1955), to name a few. [32] [33] In 1937 the first accordion concerto was written and played in Russia. Other notable classical accordion performers include Pauline Oliveros, and Rob Reich of the Tin Hat Trio.
Pietro Frosini (9 August 1885 – 2 September 1951) professionally known mononymously as Frosini, was an Italian vaudeville performer, musician, and composer. Based in the United States, he was one of the first famous "stars of the accordion ."
After a long and intense period of study (he took up lessons on the trombone, harmony, and counterpoint at the Academy of Music in Nice), at 14, in a search to expand his ideas on the accordion, he began listening to jazz and heard records by the trumpet player Clifford Brown.
The two have worked together to (1) create a website dedicated to Deiro which went online in 2001, (2) record the complete works of Deiro: Vaudeville Accordion Classics, Bridge Records 9138 A/B (2003), (3) release The Complete Recorded Works of Guido Deiro, Vols. 1, 2, 3 and 4, Archeophone Records 5012, 5014, 5018 and 5019) (2007-2010), and (4 ...
Pietro Deiro. Pietro Deiro (1888 – 1954) was one of the most influential accordionists of the first half of the 20th century. [1] [2]Born on August 28, 1888, in Salto Canavese, Italy, the younger brother of Guido Deiro, Pietro Deiro emigrated to the United States as a steerage passenger on the S/S La Savoie in 1907 and went to live with his Uncle Frederico and work in the coal mines of Cle ...