Dates

• Existence: August 9, 1902 - September 17, 1991

Biography

Zino Francescatti was a violin prodigy born in Marseilles, 1902. After a very successful teenage touring career he eventually made the acquaintance of Maurice Ravel, with whom he formed a duo and toured Britain in 1926. He taught at the Ecole Normale de Musique from 1927 to 1929 and steadily developed a solo career in Europe and the USA. In 1939 he settled in New York, though after the war he continued to teach in France where he retired in 1976.