Paganini's 1734 Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ violin is mostly kept under lock and key, a priceless artefact of one of the world's greatest performers. The fact that Francesca Dego was given permission to ...
Back in the late 1820s, Paganini performed in Prague several times and, we read, the audiences got smaller and smaller – it definitely was not a case of Paganini-mania, more of the Czech public being ...
The 18th-century violin, nicknamed ‘the cannon’ thanks to its powerful sound, is undergoing scientific tests to diagnose the root cause of its brilliance. Paganini’s favourite violin has been X-rayed ...
New York? When Regina Carter’s pianist suggested the jazz musician play Paganini’s world-famous violin — so valuable that it’s kept under lock and key in Italy — she figured it would be a difficult ...
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'Il Cannone' was Italian composer and violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini's favourite The world's most famous violin, "Il Cannone", made in 1743 and played by the great virtuoso Niccolo Paganini, being ...
In 2015, a delegation of city leaders from Columbus, Ohio, went to Italy's Genoa, where they heard a performance of the famed Paganini violin. The contingent spent the next four years working to ...
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