Émile Carrara (musician)

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Émile Carrara (born August 2, 1915 in Paris , † March 11, 1973 ibid) was a French musician and composer .

Émile Carrara, called "Milo", came from a family of musicians who came to France from Italy in the 19th century. At the age of six, he suffered a foot injury that handicapped him for life. As a child he played the accordion ; He made his first public appearance at the age of nine on the French National Day . In the years that followed, Carrara performed all over Paris as an accordion player. From 1933 to 1935 he was the orchestra leader of the Moulin Rouge and subsequently made music in famous places in Paris such as the big hotels, the casinos and the Maxim’s .

The peculiarity of Carrara's music was that he took the popular accordion off the street as a solo instrument, played with orchestras and recorded jazz and swing elements. He was called Le Poète de l'Accordéon and wrote songs for popular singers like Lucienne Delyle . In 1951 he opened a music store in Faubourg Saint-Martin ( 10th arrondissement ), published his own sheet music and represented the German accordion manufacturer Hohner . Carrara's most popular work “Mon amant de Saint-Jean” was and is used as the soundtrack in films such as François Truffaut's The Last Metro (1980), and adapted by Patrick Bruel , among others .

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SURNAME Carrara, Émile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1973
Place of death Paris