13 Facts About Florian ZaBach

Florian ZaBach was an American violinist and TV personality.

Florian ZaBach's recording of "The Hot Canary" sold a million copies and reached the top 15 on the Pop charts in 1951.

Florian ZaBach hosted a television show in 1954 that was aired in cities around the world.

In 1960, for his work on television, ZaBach was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6505 Hollywood Blvd.

Florian ZaBach studied music and learned to play the violin with his father and at the Chicago Cosmopolitan Conservatory of Music.

Florian ZaBach went to the Prague Conservatory in Czechoslovakia to further his violin studies.

Television's Arthur Godfrey discovered him there, and Florian ZaBach appeared on Godfrey's show several times.

Florian ZaBach appeared on most of the television shows emanating from New York at the time: Ed Sullivan, Milton Berle, Ken Murray, Red Skelton, Steve Allen, Jack Paar and 25 appearances on The Tonight Show.

ZaBach then moved to Hollywood, where he filmed the "Florian ZaBach" show, a weekly half-hour television series that was syndicated nationwide in more than 90 markets and in major cities throughout the world.

Florian ZaBach appeared with major symphony orchestras as soloist and conductor on their pops concerts in the United States and in London, Vienna, Genoa, Venice, Australia and Beijing, among other concert halls.

Florian ZaBach recorded many albums for Mercury and Decca using his 1732 Guarnerius del Gesu violin, created in Cremona, Italy.

Florian ZaBach spent the later years of his life living and working in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania.

Florian ZaBach died at Scranton, Pennsylvania on February 25,2006.