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The accordion's popularity spread rapidly: it has mostly been associated with the common people, and was propagated by Europeans who emigrated around the world. The accordion in both button and piano forms became a favorite of folk musicians [35] and has been integrated into traditional music styles all over the world: see the list of music ...
The free-bass accordion didn't exist—it was entirely unknown when I was a child. At that time the accordion world was living in splendid isolation. No contact at all with the outside musical world. He said they heard shows with "Frosini, Deiro repertoire or folkloristic music." However, he found it was not possible to get a good education on ...
The advent of the accordion is the subject of debate among researchers. Some historians credit Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann as the inventor of the accordion, but most others give the distinction to Cyrill Demian, an Armenian-Romanian from the Transylvanian town of Szamosújvár (ancient Armenopolis) living in Vienna, who patented his accordion in 1829, thus coining the name.
Srdjan Vukašinović is a classical and folk accordionist of Serbian-Swiss origin. He was born in Petrovac, Serbia into a musical family. [1] At the age of 16 in 1999, he won first prize for accordion players at the World Trophy Competition in Spain. [2] He has been noted by the classical music community as one of the best accordion players in ...
This is a list of articles describing traditional music styles that incorporate the accordion, alphabetized by assumed region of origin.. Note that immigration has affected many styles: e.g. for the South American styles of traditional music, German and Czech immigrants arrived with accordions (usually button boxes) and the new instruments were incorporated into the local traditional music.
As most diatonic accordions are centered on certain keys, the Schwyzerörgeli is usually tuned in 'flat' keys to fit with the clarinet, with the outer row giving a B ♭ scale, the next row E ♭, and the next giving a mixture of notes allowing music to be played in A ♭, D ♭ and G ♭ when fingered across the rows.
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Ernst was the first Schrammel accordion player, who also arranged music for the quartet and wrote a tutorial for his instrument. Within a very short time, this combination of two violins, accordion, and contraguitar was known as "Schrammelquartett"; their music, up to now in Vienna's chamber music tradition, being called Schrammelmusik.