Paganini: Music For Violin And Guitar, Vol. 1

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Cat No: 8550690

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 730099569026

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: PAGANINI

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Nicolo Paganini (1782 - 1840) Music tor Violin and Guitar Vol. 1 Sonata Concertata in A Major 6 Sonatas Op. 3 Variations on Barucaba, Op. 14Cantabile in D MajorPaganini's popular reputation rested always on his phenomenaltechnique as a violinist, coupled with a showman's ability to dominate an audience and tostupefy those who heard him by astonishing feats of virtuosity. His playing served as aninspiration to other performers in the nineteenth century, suggesting to Chopin, inWarsaw, the piano Etudes, and to Liszt the material of the Paganini studies that he w rotein 1838. The very appearance of Paganini impressed people. His gaunt aquiline features,his suggestion of hunched shoulders, his sombre clothing, gave rise to legends ofassociation with the Devil, the alleged source of his power, an association supported bythe frequent appearance by his side on his travels of his secretary, one Harris, thoughtby some to be a familiar spirit or a Mephistopheles watching over his Faust. Stories of apact with the Devil were denied by Paganini himself, who, with characteristicunderstanding of the value of public relations in a more credulous age, told of an angelicvisitation to his mother, in a dream, foretelling his birth and his genius.Paganini was born in Genoain 1782 and was taught the violinfirst by his father, an amateur, and then by a violinist in the theatre orchestra and bythe better known violinist Giacomo Costa, under whose tuition he gave a public performancein 1794. The following year he played to the violinist and teacher Alessandro Rolla inParma, and on the latter's suggestion studied composition there under Paer. After are turnto Genoa and removal during the Napoleonic invasion, he settled in 1801 in Lucca, where,after 1805, he became solo violinist to the new ruler, Princess Elisa Baciocchi, sister ofNapoleon. At the end of 1809 he left, to travel during the next eighteen years throughoutItaly, winning a very considerable popular reputation. It was not until1828 that he madehis first concert-tour abroad, visitingVienna, Prague and then the major cities of Germany, followed by Paris and London in 1831.His international career as a virtuoso ended in 1834, when, after an unsatisfactory tourof England, he returned again to Italy, to Parma. A return to the concert-hall in Nice andthen, with considerable success, in Marseilles, was followed by an unsuccessful businessventure in Paris, the Casino Paganini, which was intended to provide facilities equallyfor gambling and for music. With increasing ill health, he retired to Nice, where he diedin 1840. Although he is popularly knownprincipally for his violin music, Paganini wrote a large number of compositions for theguitar, an instrument of which he also demonstrated mastery. He left no less than 140shorter pieces for the instrument, with 28 duos for violin and guitar, and a number oftrios and quartets that make use of the instrument. He had had some familiarity with theinstrument as a child in Genoa
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