Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Gioconda de Vito (26 July 1907 - 14 October 1994) was an Italian-British classical violinist. She was born, one of five children, in the town of Martina Franca near Lecce in southern Italy, to a wine-making family. Initially she played the violin untaught, having received only music theory lessons from the local bandmaster. Her uncle, a professional violinist based in Germany, heard her attempting a concerto by Charles Auguste de Bériot when she was aged only eight, and decided to teach her himself.