Marcel Cellier
Marcel Cellier (born October 29, 1925 in Zurich ; † December 13, 2013 in Vevey ) was a Swiss accountant, organist , folk musicologist and music producer .
Since 1950, he and his wife Catherine have been traveling to south-east Europe again and again, bringing folk music there to Central Europe. He became known through the discovery of the Romanian pan flutist Gheorghe Zamfir and the Bulgarian women's choir «Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares». For this he received the Grammy Music Prize in 1990 in the category “Best Traditional Folk Recording”. In 2011, the filmmaker Stefan Schwietert from Basel shot the documentary Balkan Melodie about the lives of Marcel and Catherine Cellier .
Individual evidence
- ^ Swiss Grammy winner Marcel Cellier has died , Grenchner Tagblatt , accessed on December 21, 2013.
- ↑ The origin of the DAJOERI pan flute and the DAJOERI pan flute school , accessed on December 21, 2013.
- ↑ Der-andere-Film.ch ( Memento of December 25, 2013 Internet Archive ), accessed on February 23 2016th
- ↑ Balkan Melody. In: swissfilms.ch. Swiss Films , accessed April 22, 2020 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cellier, Marcel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss accountant, organist, folk musicologist and music producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 2013 |
| Place of death | Vevey |