Alfred Montmarquette

Alfred Montmarquette (6 April 1871 - 24 May 1944) was a Canadian folksong composer and accordionist.

Biography

Montmarquette was born in New York on 6 April 1871, and taught himself the accordion from the age of twelve, and had mastered it while still an adolescent.[1][2] Unable to earn a living as a professional musician, he worked as a mason.[3][4] He moved to Montreal in the 1920s, and was over fifty years old when Conrad Gauthier's Veillées du bon vieux temps made him well known.[2]

Between 1928 and 1932, he recorded more than 110 pieces for Starr Records, and also recorded with Ovila Légaré, Eugène Daigneault and Mary Bolduc.[2]

He died in an insane asylum in Montréal on 24 May 1944.[2]

Songs
  • Rose Alma Polka
  • Marche des collégiens
  • Galop des pompiers
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References
  1. "Alfred Montmarquette". folkways.si.edu. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  2. "Alfred Montmarquette, folksong composer and accordionist (1871-1944)". collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  3. "Alfred Montmarquette (1871 - 1944)". mustrad.udenap.org. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  4. "Alfred Montmarquette". mustrad.udenap.org. Retrieved 10 July 2014.

Discography

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