Artist Info: Grigoras Dinicu

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Grigoraş Dinicu (April 3, 1889 – March 28, 1949) was a Romanian composer and violinist. He is most famous for his often-played virtuoso violin showpiece "Hora staccato" (1906) and for making popular the tune Ciocârlia. Jascha Heifetz once said that Grigoraş Dinicu was the greatest violinist he had ever heard.

He was born in Bucharest. He attended the Bucharest Conservatory, where he studied with Kiriac-Georgescu; the most famous of his teachers was Carl Flesch [read more...]