Lonely Accordion

Lonely Accordion (Russian: Одинокая гармонь) is a song by the composer Boris Mokrousov.

[1] Text of the song, the poet Mikhail Isakovsky wrote in 1945, soon after the war.

The first song for these verses was written by composer Vladimir Zakharov and was called Harmonist.

[1] The Song was performed by Georg Ots,[1] Sergey Lemeshev, Efrem Flaks, Georgy Abramov, Victor Vuyachich, Gleb Romanov, Lyudmila Lyadova and Nina Panteleyeva, Vera Vasilyeva and Nikolai Rybnikov, Yury Okhochinsky, Alena Sviridova,[2] Nikolai Nikitsky, Dmitry Khvorostovsky, Valentina Tolkunova, Eduard Khil, Vladimir Troshin, Lyudmila Gurchenko and others.

In the performance of Alexander Krivik, the song sounded in the 1956 film The Rumyantsev Case.