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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.
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John J. Kimmel (13 December 1866 – 18 September 1942 [1] [2]) was a German-American musician known for playing Irish, Scottish, and American music on the 1-row diatonic accordion (or melodeon). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Though not Irish-American , but rather German-American (born in Brooklyn to German immigrants Margaretha Schmidt and John Kimmel), Kimmel ...
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.
In 1921 he included the harmonium in Kammermusik No. 1, a chamber work in four movements for twelve players, but later rewrote the harmonium part for accordion. Other German composers also wrote for the accordion. [25] In 1922, Austrian composer Alban Berg included a short on-stage accordion part in his landmark opera Wozzeck, Op. 7.
A Steirische Harmonika. The Steirische Harmonika (Austrian German pronunciation: [ˈʃtaɪrɪʃɛ harˈmoːnika]) is a type of bisonoric diatonic button accordion important to the alpine folk music of Croatia (Hrvatsko zagorje), Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Austria, the German state of Bavaria, and the Italian South Tyrol.
La Paloma", "The Dove" in English, is a popular Spanish song that has been produced and reinterpreted in diverse cultures, settings, arrangements, and recordings over the last 140 years. The song was written by the Spanish Basque composer Sebastián Iradier (later Yradier) around 1860 after a visit to Cuba.
A Chemnitzer concertina is a musical instrument of the hand-held bellows-driven free-reed category, sometimes called squeezeboxes.The Chemnitzer concertina is most closely related to the bandoneón (German spelling: Bandonion), and more distantly, to the other types of concertinas and accordions.