Émile Vacher (May 7, 1883 - April 8, 1969) was a French
accordionist
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed i ...
associated with, and often deemed the creator of, the
bal-musette Bal-musette is a style of French instrumental music and dance that first became popular in Paris in the 1880s. Although it began with bagpipes as the main instrument, this instrument was replaced with accordion, on which a variety of waltzes, polkas ...
genre.
[''World Music: Africa, Europe and the Middle East'' Page 113 Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, Richard Trillo - 1999 "Emile Vacher Once the accordion took over from the cabrette in the bals-musette, Vacher (1883-1969) was the star of the new style. He didn't write music, but kept hundreds of tunes in his head and played with a light and rhythmic ..."]
Discography 78s
* ''Sous les toits de paris / Rêve d’amour'', Odéon 238.101
* ''Nous deux / Un baiser'', Odéon 238.163
* ''Albert / Meunier tu dors'', Odéon 165.796
* ''J’ai ma combine / C’est Rosalie'', Odéon 238.291
* ''On me suit / La java de Doudoune'', Odéon 165.311
* ''Julie...c'est Julie / Tout ca c'est pour Vous'', Odéon 165.312
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Music on Spotify
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Musicians from Tours, France
1883 births
1969 deaths
French accordionists
20th-century accordionists
Deaths from cancer in France