Ruggiero Ricci

Ruggiero Ricci
Ruggiero Ricci, 1961
Born(1918-07-24)24 July 1918
Died5 August 2012(2012-08-05) (aged 94)
Occupation(s)violinist, pedagogue
External audio
audio icon You may hear Ruggiero Ricci performing Antonin Dvorak's Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Minor, Op. 11 with Walter Susskind conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in 1974 Here on archive.org
audio icon You may hear Ruggiero Ricci performing the Preludio from Johann Sebastian Bach's Violin Partita No. 3, in E Major, BWV 1006.1 circa 1966 Here on archive.org

Ruggiero Ricci (24 July 1918 – 5 August 2012)[1][2][3] was an American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Paganini.[4]

  1. ^ As told by Julia Ricci, his wife: „Ruggiero died on August 5th, and because of Gianni's (Ruggiero's son, the Australian pianist) that gave the message to The Strad magazine from Australia, already a day after (on 6th), the mistake happened...“
  2. ^ "Ruggiero Ricci dies at 94; violin virtuoso began as child prodigy" by Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 22 August 2012
  3. ^ "Ruggiero Ricci obituary" by Anne Inglis, The Guardian, 7 August 2012
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ricci-papers-LOC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).