John Dunn (violinist)

John Dunn (16 February 1866, Kingston upon Hull – 18 December 1940, Harrogate) was the most prominent English violinist at the turn of the 20th century and composer.

After completing the course and returning to Britain he performed as soloist at Covent Garden (in 1882), The Proms, Crystal Palace, Glasgow Choral Union concerts, Royal Amateur Orchestral Society, bur also in Berlin and Leipzig.

In approximately 1900 he took a concert tour in America, during which he used an exotic 'Russian' pseudonym Ivan Donoiewski.

[1] In 1902 he made the first performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in England.

He also wrote a number of cadences to Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Concerto.