Gérard Barreaux (1948 – 16 October 2010) was a
French accordionist
Accordions (from 19th-century German ', from '—"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 in a frame). The es ...
,
composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
Etymology and def ...
, and
actor
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. He regularly appeared in performances of
Yiddish music with singer-guitarist
Moshé Leiser and
violin
The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...
ist
Ami Flamer.
[''Musiques traditionnelles: guide du disque'' Laurent Aubert - 1991 "Gérard Barreaux, accordéoniste issu de la meilleure tradition populaire urbaine, et Ami Flammer, enfant terrible du violon classique, réalisent ici une heureuse synthèse de leurs influences respectives, "]
Discography
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:fr:Denis Levaillant
* Yankele, Yiddish songs
References
French accordionists
1948 births
2010 deaths
20th-century French musicians
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