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The accordion is one of several European inventions of the early 19th century that use free reeds driven by a bellows. An instrument called accordion was first patented in 1829 by Cyrill Demian in Vienna. [notes 4] Demian's instrument bore little resemblance to modern instruments. It only had a left-hand buttonboard, with the right hand simply ...
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]
Throughout her life, Yvette Horner remained nostalgic for her first instrument, [6] with which she recorded her prize-winning recital of classical works Le Jardin secret d'Yvette Horner, as well as performing many times as a pianist on TV shows. However, she made her débuts at the "Théâtre Impérial" in Tarbes (later renamed "Théâtre des ...
The first chromatic piano-like accordions in Russia were built in 1871 by Nikolay Ivanovich Beloborodov. [21] In 1907, St. Petersburg master accordion maker V. S. Sterlingov created a chromatic button accordion for the player Ya. F. Orlandskiy-Titarenko featuring 52 melody keys and 72 chords of the Stradella bass system.
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 ...
In the early-1960s Ellegaard began working with Lars Holm at the Malmö Sweden Accordion Studio where he taught free-bass accordion. He wrote "Comprehensive Method for the Chromatic Free Bass System" which was published by Hohner in New York City in 1964. In 1970 he founded the accordion department at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in ...
Count Guido Pietro Deiro (1 September 1886 – 26 July 1950) was a famous vaudeville star, international recording artist, composer and teacher. He was the first piano-accordionist to appear on big-time vaudeville, records, radio and the screen. he usually performed under the stage-name "Deiro".