French violinist and pedagogue Jacques Thibaud died on this day in 1953, in a plane crash – aged 73.
The dedicatee of Ysaye’s 2nd Solo Sonata, his famed students
Austrian-born American violinist Eric Rosenblith was born on this day in 1920 - 98 years ago.
A student of Jacques Thibaud, Carl Flesch and Bronisław Huberman, Mr Rosenblith