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Niccolò Paganini

Niccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist and composer and was celebrated as the greatest violin virtuoso of his day. He was born on 27th October 1782 in Genoa, Italy and died on 27th May 1840 in Nice, France aged 57.

Major Works

24 Caprices for Solo Violin (1802-1817)  
Violin Concerto No. 1 (1818) 
“Moses Fantasy” (1818) 
Variations on God Save the King (1829)
“Moto Perpetuo” (1835)

Biography Timeline

Niccolo Paganini was born on 27th October 1782 in Genoa, Italy. His father was an unsuccessful trader but made some money by playing the mandolin. Paganini studied early on with his father and then with a local violinist, Servetto, and then finally with the famous Giacomo Costa.

1793: He makes his first concert appearance and then moved to Parma to take lessons with Alessandro Rolla and Gaspare Ghiretti. 

1796: The French invade northern Italy including Genoa during March and the Paganinis take refuge at their country property in Romairone, near Bolza

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24 Caprices for Solo Violin (Paganini)

No. KeyMovementsNotes 1E majorAndanteNicknamed "The Arpeggio", this composition matches chordal playing with ricochet across all 4 strings. The piece opens in E major and then quickly transitions into an E minor development section, where descending scales in thirds are introduced. 2B minorModeratoThe second caprice focuses on detache with many string crossings across non-adjacent strings. 3E minorSostenuto/Presto/SostenutoCaprice No. 3 is a slurred legato exercise with octave trills in the introduction and conclusion. 4C minorMaestosoCaprice No. 4 is an exercise featuring passages with many multiple stops in thirds. 5A minorAgitatoCaprice No. 5 focuses on fast ricochet bowings. It begins and ends with a section of ascending arpeggios followed by descending scales. 6G minorLentoNicknamed "The Trill", the sixth caprice exploits the use of left-hand tremolo on the violin by quickly alternating between different notes in the chord in one of the voices. A melody is played in on
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Niccolo Paganini: 24 Capricci, op. 1

ZKP (2016)

1. Andante
2. Moderato
3. Sostenuto-Presto-Sostenuto
4. Maestoso
5. Agitato
6. Lento
7. Posato
8. Maestoso
9. Allegretto
10. Vivace
11. Andante-Presto-Tempo I
12. Allegro
13. Allegro
14. Moderato
15. Posato
16. Presto
17. Sostenuto-Andante
18. Corrente-Allegro
19. Lento-Allegro assai
20. Allegretto
21. Amoroso-Presto
22. Marcato
23. Posato
24. Tema. Quasi Presto-Variazioni-Finale



Around 1810, a new era commenced in the history of violin performance. It was then that Italian virtuoso Niccolò Paganini, born 27 October 1782 in Genoa, commenced his celebrated and dazzling career. He soon gained the nickname “the devil’s violinist”, as he set new standards for violin perfor- mance, a fact that was noted by the German Romantic composer Robert Schumann. No one before him had succeeded in developing bowing and nger technique to such an extent that it was possible to perform stunning arrangements of opera excerpts on this string instrument, as well as extraordinarily di cult passages and other tech

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