Early Life
Francis Vivian Dunn was born in Jabalpur, India. His father, William James Dunn, was bandmaster of the Second Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps and later director of music of the Royal Horse Guards. Dunn studied piano with his mother, Beatrice Maud, and choral studies in Winchester. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik Köln in 1923, and two years later attended the Royal Academy of Music. He studied conducting with Henry Wood and composition with Walton O'Donnell. As a violinist, he performed in the Queen's Hall Promenade Orchestra under Wood, and in 1930 was a founding member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra under several conductors.
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