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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.
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 ."
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.
She participated in international competitions, won the world championship among accordion players, performing folk Slovenian music. [1] She played on the Zupan firm accordion. [2] [3] Mignacca is married and has three children. She teaches in elementary school. At the present time she does not act as accordion player. [citation needed]
Despite efforts by accordion performers and organizations to present the accordion as a serious instrument to the classical music world, the much-coveted breakthrough into the mainstream of serious musical circles did not take place until after leading accordionists more or less abandoned the stradella-bass accordion (an instrument limited to ...
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
Carmen Carrozza (July 20, 1921 – June 17, 2013) was one of America's premier concert accordionists, before he retired from performing after suffering a stroke. [1] He was born in the village of Solano in Reggio di Calabria, Calabria, Italy, in 1921 and emigrated to the United States of America with his family at age 9, settling with them in Chappaqua, New York.
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 ...