Janine Andrade

Janine Andrade (born November 13, 1918 in Besançon ; † October 24, 1997 ) was a French violinist .

Janine Andrade performed as a violin soloist at the age of seven, accompanied by her mother, a pianist. At the age of twelve she received the First Prize of the Conservatoire de Paris in the violin category . Her teachers were Jules Boucherit , Carl Flesch and Jacques Thibaud . Her career as a violin soloist was interrupted by the Second World War. After 1945 undertook the concert tours through Japan, South Africa and South America. In 1972 she suffered a severe stroke that resulted in right-sided paralysis and loss of speech. She spent the last years of her life in nursing homes. A CD with Mozart's violin concertos (with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Kurt Masur ) was released on the Berlin Classics label , and an album with recordings of César Franck's , Gabriel Faurés and Franz Schubert's violin sonatas from 1958-60 was released on Meloclassic .

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SURNAME	Andrade, Janine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French violinist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 13, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Besançon
DATE OF DEATH	October 24, 1997