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1924–2001 United States
Robert Davine (born Aubrey Robert Davine, 5 April 1924 - 25 November 2001) was an American concert accordionist and Professor of Accordion and Music Theory at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music for over three decades. He has been cited as one of the first founders of a collegiate academic program in advanced accordion studies within the United States.
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The accordion fun? ....Sometimes. Not all the time. I find that it can be a frustrating instrument.
Robert Davine Accordionist Robert Davine: A Conversation With Bruce Duffie (1992)
Since the accordion has so many attributes that are conducive to chamber music, it is particularly suitable for this medium of expression. In essence, the accordion has all of the prerequisites essential to small ensemble involvement: sustaining power, dynamic sensitivity, articulated response, timbre, and texture variance, and compatibility of sound with string and wind instruments.
There are instruments known as free-bass instruments, or sometimes called the bassetti, where you have totally complete single pitches, simply like you would in the right hand, and you form your own chords. And you have a greater range in the left hand, some three to four-and-a-half octaves.
Robert Davine Accordionist Robert Davine: A Conversation With Bruce Duffie (1992)
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