It's probably no surprise that Niccolo Paganini loved food, because as a youngster he was deprived of it. When he was five, he began to play the mandolin; two years later he switched to violin, all ...

Cultural Route of the Council of Europe” certified in 2026. Niccoló Paganini was a talented Italian violinist and composer, born in 1782 in Genoa. Within the panorama of Eur ...

Rising Star pianist Amiri Harewood plays the 18th variation of Sergei Rachmaninov's texturally-rich romantic work, 'Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini' arranged by Iain Farrington. Set to an inversion of ...

With permission from masters such as Yehudi Menuhin, Pablo Sarasate, Joseph Joachim, Eugène Ysaÿe, and perhaps a more modern one—let’s say Jascha Heifetz or Itzhak Perlman—there is one musician who is ...

French experts fired X-rays at a 18th-century violin worth millions this weekend hoping to discover the secret of its magical sound, they said Monday. The violin, dubbed "Il Cannone" (the cannon) ...

If sonata form is about the process of reaching a destination, variation form is more about taking pleasure in the journey itself. While sonata form explores material through argument – contrasting ...

Some thought he was a metaphorical musical God, others thought he literally got his virtuosity from a deal with the Devil. But what was the real story behind Niccolò Paganini’s genius? Born on 27 ...

It seems the devil had a hand in this disc. Not only is the Tartini work his “Devil’s Trill” Sonata, but the other pieces by Sciarrino, Paganini and Berio are so fearsomely challenging for the ...