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Francescatti made many renowned LPs, including a set of the complete Beethoven violin-piano sonatas with Robert Casadesus, a frequent musical collaborator of his.

Both in concerts and on disc, he performed on the celebrated " Hart " Stradivarius of 1727.

Upon his retirement in 1976, he sold the instrument and established the Zino Francescatti Foundation, to assist young violinists, in La Ciotat.

In 1987 an international violin competition was organized in his honor in Aix-en-Provence.