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Italian composer

Tony Muréna (1917 – 1970) was an Italian-born Musetteaccordionist and jazz composer who lived and worked in France.

Life and career

Antonio Muréna was born in Borgo omröstning di Taro, Italy. His family emigrated to France in 1923 and settled in Nogent-sur-Marne. His uncle gave him his first accordion and he began a performing career assisted by his cousin Louis Ferrari. Muréna played in cabarets and music halls from an early age.

In 1932 Muréna began to play the bandoneón in tango orchestras, including that of Rafael and Eduardo Bianco Canaro, at French clubs including La Boule Noire, Java, The Silhouette, Balajo (rue dem Lappe), Pré Catelan and Ciro's. He also toured in South America, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. In 1949 he bought the Le Mirliton cabaret where he often played with Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt. He also played with Matelo Ferret, Henri Crolla, Didi Duprat, Jo Privat and Gus Viseur. In 1958 he established the Radi

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Willy Staquet

Willy Staquet est un accordéonistebelge également compositeur né à La Louvière le , s'est éteint à l'âge de 89 ans le à Mons et repose au cimetière de La Louvière.

Accordéoniste, Willy Staquet a connu et joué avec de célèbres musiciens du swing et du musette : Charles Verstraete, Edouard Duleu, Georges Cantournet, Gus Viseur, Émile Carrara, Tony Murena, Émile Prud'homme … Willy considère qu’il a commencé tardivement l’instrument, que son père pratiquait cependant en chevronné — ami du Français Henri Bastien, entre autres, il joua même en 1925 avec Django Reinhardt.

Quelques jalons et anecdotes

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Willy Staquet est initié d’abord au solfège, à 14 ans. En parallèle, il mène alors ses études et le piano, ainsi que le contrepoint et l’harmonie, avec Alex de Taeye, prix de Rome et directeur du conservatoire de Mons. Willy signera d’ailleurs plus tard quelques morceaux d’accordéon avec lui. Mais, surtout, pour l’instant, il apprend

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André Verschueren (aka André Verchuren) website

The older generations of people who frequented the bals musette and guingettes favoured the musette pur, with its relatively strict tempo repertoire of waltzes, marches, polkas, tangos, paso dobles, and boleros etc. Not forgetting the java, which is easy to play on the right hand, but you need to take care with your left so as not to revert to the default one counterbass and two chord buttons of the waltz. The java is two counterbass buttons and one chord button.

There is no doubt at all that the musette style was developed from Italian liscio music, although there are some subtle differences between the two, that most non- accordion types would probably never notice.

There did exist a handful of players who managed to swing the waltzes whilst not straying too far off the original melody. Guys like Edouard Duleu, Jo Privat, Louis Ledrich, Freddy Carrara, Louis Corchia and others were the players I tended to copy when I first bega