Paganini
"I have heard the angels sing" proclaimed Franz Schubert upon hearing music from Niccolo Paganini, composer of 24 violin caprices, Witch's Dance, Perpetual Motion, the orchestral Concerto in D Major, Carnival of Venice, and La Capanella. . Niccolo Paganini has been called the greatest violin player of all time. He was not only the toast of all Europe, he was a legend in his own time. His fab- ulous command of his instrument was no legend, nor was it legend that no au- dience failed to succumb to a kind of spell in the presence of his musical genius. Not only his playing but his cadaverous appearance on the stage aroused awe and terror. His pale , long face with its hollow cheeks and lips curled into a sardonic smile, the piercing expression of his eyes, fed the rumor that he was the son of the devil. The word spread that the G string of his violin was made from the intestines of a murdered mistress. Despite all of this he was worship- ed wherever he went. Women pursued him, musicians followed him from Paganini's father raised his son with cruelty a
a peculiar trait- shyness, and not much else, leaving olny his legacy of music and mystery. he was forever in demand. By the age of thirteen he was known as the "won- ger to go with unusually long fingers. He disappeared from the public eye at the turn of the century, and until a child! He inspired other famous musicians. Franz Liszt was swept off tyrannical bonds of his father. his Strativarias. This violin had been placed in his hands by a painter with Napoleon's sister Eliza, who made him conductor of the orchestra. play in public and took up the guitar, for which he composed two sets of duets to cough. By 1838 he had lost his voice and on the last night of his life he Around 1815 Paganini met a dancer, Antonia Bianchi, whose life was Copyright 1981 New York, NY Paganini desired no funeral of pomp and gave his famous Guarneri
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