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Stéphane Grappelli
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French jazz violinist (1908–1997)
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Stéphane Grappelli was a French male musician associated with jazz, swing, and gypsy jazz. His musical style is also described as continental jazz and French. He was born on January 26, 1908, and died on December 1, 1997.
Grappelli is credited with three works in Open Library records, including *Stephane Grappelli Violin Play-Along Volume 15* and *Grappelli Story*. Crossref data lists five works for the author. On Last.fm, his music is tagged with jazz, violin, gypsy jazz, swing, and jazz violin. The artist has 120,750 listeners and 843,218 playcounts on that platform.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1908-01-26 ) 26 January 1908, Paris , France
- Died
- 1 December 1997 (1997-12-01) (aged 89), Paris, France
- Genres
- Swing , continental jazz , gypsy jazz
- Occupation
- Musician
- Instruments
- Violin, piano, saxophone, accordion
- Formerly of
- Django Reinhardt , Quintette du Hot Club de France , Yehudi Menuhin , Oscar Peterson , David Grisman
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Stéphane
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- French
- Genre
- Gypsy jazz
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- MPS Records
- Image
- Stephane Grappelli Allan Warren.jpg
- Significant event
- funeral
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- Commons category
- Stéphane Grappelli
- date of birth
- 1908-01-26
- date of death
- 1997-12-01
- name in native language
- Stéphane Grappelli
- member of
- Quintette du Hot Club de France
- copyright representative
- SACEM
- P8168
- John R. McBride
- social media followers
- 7760
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Encyclopedic overview
Stéphane Grappelli ( French pronunciation: [stefan ɡʁapɛli]; 26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997) was a French jazz violinist. He is best known as a founder of the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands. He has been called "the grandfather of jazz violinists" and continued playing concerts around the world well into his eighties.
For the first three decades of his career, he was billed using a gallicised spelling of his last name, Grappelly, reverting to the Italian spelling Grappelli in 1969. The latter is used when referring to the violinist, including reissues of his early work.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stéphane Grappelli” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.