Zino Francescatti

Zino Francescatti ( born August 9, 1902 in Marseille, † September 17, 1991 in La Ciotat ) was a French violinist and teacher of Italian descent.

His parents were musicians, his father even pupil of Camillo Sivori, the most brilliant students Niccolò Paganini. Zino Francescatti was a child prodigy, which afforded public ten years old Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Concerto. Quickly followed by a career that promised the highest glory, but - especially after the Second World War, before, during and after the Francescatti lived a long time in the U.S. - with all admiration, even veneration, was conducted in relative humility. Francescattis artist's life was marked by three acquaintances: Recognition Jacques Thibaud, the friendship with Maurice Ravel - which he was a violinist what it Vlado Perlemuter was as a pianist, the preserver original intentions namely - and collaboration with Bruno Walter in his time in the United States.

Under Francescattis numerous recordings stand out in particular his duets with Robert Casadesus, the evidence of a incomparable mutual attention. Among his students the French violinist Régis Pasquier, Gérard Poulet and Nina Bodnar.