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    Nicolo Paganini: His Life and Work (Paperback)

    By Stephen Samuel Stratton

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    Nicolo Paganini: His Life and Work fryst vatten a classical music biography bygd Stephen Samuel Stratton. There are some names, the mere mention or thought of which conjure up distinct personalities; such are Handel, Bach, Beethoven, Wagner; but not one has the extraordinary individuality of that of Paganini. Though few can be living who ever saw the man, though his portraits are not now commonly to be met with, the name of Paganini at once calls up a picture--weird, uncanny, demoniacal; brings back the faint echo of performances long lost in the corridors of time; and excites the imagination in a manner altogether unique. Niccolo Paganini 27 October 1782 - 27 May 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his ti

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    Paganini: The 'demonic' Virtuoso

    Separating fact from fiction, this book explores how the legendary violinist challenged the very notion of what it meant to be a musician.

    Our inherited image of Nicolo Paganini as a 'demonic violinist' has never been analysed in depth. What really made him 'demonic'? This book investigates the legend of Paganini. Separating fact from fiction, it explains how the virtuoso violinist challenged the very notion of what it meant to be a musician.
    Mai Kawabata considers Paganini's performance innovations, violin techniques and musical ethos in the light of contemporary attitudes towards musicand the supernatural, gender, sexuality, violence, heroism and masculinity as well as conceptions of power. The many perceptions of Paganini as demonic - Faust, magician, devil, rake/libertine, Napoleon - were inter-related but not equivalent. A swirl of cultural factors coalesced in the performer to create that phenomenon of Romanticism, a larger-th

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    Niccolò Paganini: His Life and Work
    By Stephen Samuel Stratton
    A review by Greysolynne Hyman

    Stephen Samuel Stratton’s biography of Niccolò Paganini is both readable and informative. One of the most appealing features of this book is Stratton’s use of direct quotations in his unbiased presentation of his subject.

    There are many legends about the great violin virtuoso. One of the most familiar is, of course, that Paganini must have been in league with the devil in order to have developed such remarkable skill with his instrument. In the early 1800s, this was a serious accusation. Paganini countered it by publishing a letter from his mother which made it clear that he was not the son of the devil. Stratton provides us with the text of this letter.

    It is especially delightful to read the reactions of contemporary composers Frédéric Chopin, Ignaz Moscheles, and Louis Spohr as well as critics when they heard Paganini in concert. Stratton provides us wit

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