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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. Unable to earn a living as a professional musician, he worked as a mason. 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.

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

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

Songs

  • Rose Alma Polka
  • Marche des collégiens
  • Galop des pompiers

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. 11 April 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  4. "Alfred Montmarquette". mustrad.udenap.org. Retrieved 10 July 2014.

Discography

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