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Joan Fresco (1886 - 1964)
Joan (Johan, Jonas, John, Joen) Fresco was born on 18 August 1886 in The Hague as the son of the Jewish tailor Moses Fresco and Regina Frank. At a young age, he showed already an interest in music. At the Conservatory in The Hague he studied piano, violin and composition. His violin teacher was the internationally renowned Belgian violinist Laurent Angenot (1873-1949), who introduced him as a trainee at the Residentie Orchestra, where he was second concertmaster, and with whom he passed the … more