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Accord (French record label)

French record label

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2024
Entity authorityQ4672710 ↗
Source-derived summary

Accord is a French classical record label, and the main classical imprint of Universal Music France. The brand originally belonged in France to Musidisc, founded in 1995, which incorporated the labels Accord, Adès, Disc AZ, Adda, Vega, Le Club Français du Disque, Sofrason. When Polygram acquired Musidisc in 1999 it began to use the label Accord for releases of Decca France, and for the Euterp series of the Orchestra of Montpellier.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Accord (French record label)” is french record label. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Accord, French and label, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Accord, French and label is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Accord (French record label)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.