Neveu was born on 11 August 1919 in Paris into a musical family.[3] Her brother Jean-Paul became a classical pianist (and her eventual accompanist) and the composer and organist Charles-Marie Widor was their great-uncle.[3] Neveu’s mother was her first teacher.[3]
Neveu made her solo debut at the age of seven with Bruch‘s Violin Concerto No. 1 at the Salle Gaveau in Paris.In the same year she performed Mendelssohn‘s Violin Concerto in E minor with the Colonne Orchestra under Gabriel Pierné.
Neveu gave her last concert in Paris on 20 October 1949. On 28 October, she was on board an Air France flight from Paris to New York when it crashed on a mountain after two failed attempts to make a landing at the Santa Maria Airport in the Azores. All 48 people on board the flight died, including Ginette and her brother Jean Neveu.
