born in Trieste in 1926, died in December 2001, Franco Gulli was one of the most important artists of the Twentieth Century. He studied violin with his father, a pupil of Sevcik and Marak at the Conservatory of Prague. He graduated in 1944 with a "Summa cum Laude" from the Conservatory of Trieste. Gulli furthered his studies with Arrigo Serato at the Accademia Chigiana of Siena, winning the Academy prize, and later studied under Joseph Szigeti in Switzerland. 　　Franco Gulli was the soloist with the most prestigious international symphony orchestras and played with conductors of great fame at La Scala (Milan), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Musikverein (Vienna) and Carnegie Hall (New York) to name a few. He worked intensively in chamber music as well, playing in duo with Enrica Cavallo, and he founded the Trio Italiano D'Archi with Bruno Giuranna and Giacinto Caramia. His discography is very extensive and includes Concerts by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Paganini, Prokofiev, Vivaldi (The Four Seasons) and the complete works of Mozart Concertos. With Enrica Cavallo he recorded Sonatas by Respighi, Ghedini, Strauss, the FAE Sonata (Dietrich, Schumann, Brahms) and two editions of the complete works of Beethoven Sonatas. With the Trio Italiano he recorded the Mozart Divertimento and the entire cycle of Beethoven Trios for Strings......... 　　........Gulli, who passed away in 2001, was an extremely gifted violinist who made a professorship at Indiana University and played some 16 times with Michelangeli in Italy. When I heard him in Atlanta, he played an exquisite Baal Shem of Bloch with the orchestra under Louis Lane. When I asked Gulli straight out whether Michelangeli were a drug-addict, he replied no, but that "Michelangeli is so very strange. He will cancel a concert-like that! Any reason: too hot, too cold, the piano, the acoustic. But when he plays. . .amazing!" So, too, when Gulli plays.......