Paganini: Music For Violin And Guitar, Vol. 2

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Cat No: 8550759

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: PAGANINI

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Nicolo Paganini (1782 - 1840)Music for Violin and Guitar Vol. IISonata per la gran viola e chitarraDuetto amoroso6 Sonatas Op. 2Cantabile - ValseVariazioni di bravursPaganini's popular reputation rested always on his phenomenal technique as aviolinist, coupled with a showman's ability to dominate an audience and tostupefy those who heard him by astonishing feats of virtuosity. His playingserved as an inspiration to other performers in the nineteenth century,suggesting to Chopin, in Warsaw, the piano Etudes, and to Liszt the material ofthe Paganini studies that he wrote in 1838. The very appearance of Paganiniimpressed people. His gaunt aquiline features, his suggestion of hunchedshoulders, his sombre clothing, gave rise to legends of association with theDevil, the alleged source of his power, an association supported by the frequentappearance by his side on his travels of his secretary, one Harris, thought bysome to be a familiar spirit or a Mephistopheles watching over his Faust.Stories of a pact with the Devil were denied by Paganini himself, who, withcharacteristic understanding of the value of public relations in a morecredulous age, told of an angelic visitation to his mother, in a dream,foretelling his birth and his genius.Paganini was born in Genoa in 1782 and was taught the violin first by hisfather, an amateur, and then by a violinist in the theatre orchestra and by thebetter known violinist Giacomo Costa, under whose tuition he gave a publicperformance in 1794. The following year he played to the violinist and teacherAlessandro Rolla in Parma, and on the latter's suggestion studied Compositionthere under Paer. After are turn to Genoa and removal during the Napoleonicinvasion, he settled in 1801 in Lucca, where, after 1805, he became soloviolinist to the new ruler, Princess Elisa Baciocchi, sister of Napoleon. At theend of 1809 he left, to travel during the next eighteen years throughout Italy,winning a very considerable popular reputation. It was not until1828 that hemade his first concert-tour abroad, visiting Vienna, Prague and then the majorcities of Germany, followed by Paris and London in 1831. His internationalcareer as a virtuoso ended in 1834, when, after an unsatisfactory tour ofEngland, he returned again to Italy, to Parma. A return to the concert-hall inNice and then, with considerable success, in Marseilles, was followed by anunsuccessful business venture in Paris, the Casino Paganini, which was intendedto provide facilities equally for gambling and for music. With increasing illhealth, he retired to Nice, where he died in 1840.Although he is popularly known principally for his violin music, Paganiniwrote a large number of compositions for the guitar, an instrument of which healso demonstrated mastery. He left no less than 140 shorter pieces for guitar,28 duos for violin and guitar, with four trios and nine quartets that make useof the instrument. He had had some familiarity with the instrument as a child inGenoa. When in 18
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