Accordions are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type. The essential characteristic of the accordion is to combine in one instrument a melody section, also called the diskant, usually on the right-hand keyboard, with an accompaniment or Basso continuo functionality on the left-hand. The musician normally plays the melody on buttons or keys on the right-hand side, and the accompaniment on bass or pre-set chord buttons on the left-hand side. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist.
Angelo Branduardi is an Italian folk/folk rock singer-songwriter and composer who scored relative success in Italy and European countries such as France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Greece.
Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH & Co. KG is a German manufacturer of musical instruments, founded in 1857 by Matthias Hohner (1833–1902). It is a subsidiary of Matth. Hohner AG. The roots of the Hohner firm are in Trossingen, Baden-Württemberg. Hohner has manufactured a wide range of instruments, such as harmonicas, kazoos, accordions, recorder flutes, melodicas, banjos, electric, acoustic, resonator and classical guitars, basses, mandolins and ukuleles. Hohner is known mostly for its harmonicas.
Fabio Vacchi is an Italian composer.
Stefano Bollani is an Italian composer, pianist and singer, also active as a writer and a television presenter.
Giorgio Mainerio was an Italian musician, composer, and occultist. He started his career as a presbyter and would only later start his musical career in the 1560s. Most of the songs he composed were in the 1570s and were mainly church music. He dabbled in occultism and was later investigated for it. Before his death, he suffered from health issues.
Joseph Martin Waters(born 1952) is an American classical composer. He also mounts experimental electronic music festivals attempting to bridge the gap between contemporary popular genres and the avant-garde Western classical tradition.
Come in un'ultima cena is the sixth studio album by Italian progressive rock band Banco del Mutuo Soccorso. The English version of the album was released with the title As in a Last Supper.
The Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia, also known as the Venice Conservatory, is a conservatory in Venice, Italy, named after composer Benedetto Marcello and established in 1876.
Angelo Dos Santos is a Brazilian harmonica player.
Dead Loretta was a psychedelic rock band from Newark, Delaware. Formed in 2004, Dead Loretta got its start when songwriters Danny Boles and Marky Degz decided to expand their acoustic duo project "Bruce Lee's Grave" into a four-piece rock band. Heavily influenced by 1960s British Invasion and local pop heroes The Spinto Band, the original lineup consisted of Degz on lead vocals/guitar, Boles on lead guitar/vocals, Brian Lafferty on bass/harmonica, Andrew Kerstetter on drums, and Alex McGrellis on keyboards.
Claudio Capponi is an Italian film composer, music arranger, orchestrator, music producer and violist.
Massimiliano Frani was an Italian pianist, composer and music pedagogue. He founded the project MET – Music Education Therapy and was director of the Armoniæ Centro Internazionale di Musica e Cultura. He also worked as a musical art teacher at Elevations RTC, a residential treatment center in Syracuse, Utah, and lived in the state.
Efecto Pasillo is a Spanish alternative rock/pop rock band formed in the Canary Islands. Their music also includes elements of funk and Latin sounds.
Giuseppe Veneziano is an Italian painter and one of the leading figures of Italian art groups "New Pop" and "Italian Newbrow".
Umberto Petrin is an Italian jazz pianist, composer and poet. He devoted himself to the study of the piano at the age of 12. After studying Chemistry, he graduated in Piano at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, where he is now Professor of Jazz Piano. From the age of 18 he took an active interest in contemporary poetry and began a long collaboration with literary magazines, winning several prizes and being a finalist in numerous poetry competitions.
Angelo Tumino is an Italian novelist and poet.
The Palazzo Pisani a Santo Stefano is a large palace located facing Campo Santo Stefano, in an alley near the facade of the church of San Vidal, in the sestiere of San Marco, in the city of Venice, Italy. The palace is owned by the city and now houses the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia, founded in 1876.
Rev Rev Rev is an Italian shoegaze and psychedelic band formed in Modena in 2011 by Sebastian Lugli and Laura Iacuzio, then joined by Andrea Dall'Omo and Greta Benatti.
Maria Gabriella Zen is an Italian composer.
