BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Franco Gulli, an internationally known violinist 
and a distinguished professor at the Indiana University School of Music, died 
Tuesday. He was 75. 

Gulli, born in Trieste, Italy, performed his first concert as a child in 1934. He 
became a concertmaster with the Milan Chamber Orchestra and a soloist with 
the renowned ensemble I Virtuosi di Roma. 

His performances included the Niccolo Paganini's Fifth Violin Concerto, which 
he premiered in 1959. 

Gulli was a jury member of major violin competitions worldwide and held 
positions at international festivals in Vienna, Paris, Dubrovnik, Lucerne, 
Venice and Sienna. 

Gulli joined the IU School of Music faculty in the early 1970s. He eventually 
held the Dorothy Richard Starling Chair in Violin Studies, the first fully 
funded endowed chair in the music school. 

He made two recordings of Beethoven sonatas with his wife Enrica Cavallo. He 
recorded the complete cycle of Beethoven string trios with the Trio Italiano 
d'Archi, an ensemble he co-founded.