Jeanette Dincin | |
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Born | August 26, 1902 Brooklyn, New York |
Died | November 1967 |
Other names | Jeannette Dincin Ysaÿe |
Occupation | Violinist |
Spouse | Eugène Ysaÿe |
Relatives | Theo Ysaÿe (brother-in-law) |
Jeanette Dincin Ysaÿe (August 26, 1902 – November 1967), also seen as Jeannette Dincin Ysaÿe, was an American violinist and violin teacher. She was a student and personal secretary of Eugène Ysaÿe, and became his wife in 1927.
Dincin was from Brooklyn, the daughter of Herman Dincin and Lena Tietze Dincin.[1] Her father was a physician.[2] She studied violin as a child at the New York College of Music,[3] and later with Leopold Auer, Otakar Ševčik, and Ysaÿe.[4]
Dincin made her concert debut in Paris in 1923,[4] and performed in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium and England in the 1920s.[2] She taught violin at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and in private lessons for Queen Elisabeth of Belgium.[5] She cared for her husband in his last years at their home in Brussels, and after his death promoted his work, while performing and teaching in the United States.[6][7][8] She played his Guarneri violin in at least one concert, in New York in 1932;[9] the same violin was played by Isaac Stern from 1965 to 1998.[10][11]
Dincin married her widowed Belgian violin teacher, Ysaÿe, in 1927.[2][12] Her husband was in ill health for much of their marriage,[13] and died in 1931.[14] She died in 1967, aged 65 years. The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace Library holds a collection of Dincin's papers, including unpublished compositions and arrangements by her husband.[15][16]