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Niccolò Paganini

Niccolò Paganini. The Greatest Violinist of the Victorian Age. Paganini ’ s Childhood. Niccolò was born in Genoa (Italy) 27 ’ th October 1782, the third of six children of Antonio and Teresa Paganini.

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Niccolò Paganini

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  1. Niccolò Paganini The GreatestViolinist of the Victorian Age

  2. Paganini’s Childhood • Niccolò was born in Genoa (Italy) 27’th October 1782, the third of six children of Antonio and Teresa Paganini. • His father was an unsuccessful trader, but managed to add on his income of money by playing music on the mandolin. • At the age of five Paganini started to learn how to play the mandolin from his father and at the age of seven he moved to the violin.

  3. The beginning of his career • By 1800 Paganini and hisfathertravelled to Livorno, where Paganini played in concerts and hisfatherrestartedhis marine work as a trader. • At the age of 18 Paganini waspayedas the first violinist of the orchestra of the Republic of Lucca but he made more money by playing private concerts, but he spentthismoney for gambling and women

  4. HIS GREAT SUCCESS • For the next few years Paganini came back in the areas surrounding Parma and Genoa where he was very well known but wanted to be known in other parts of Europe. • In 1813 he played a concert in Milan and was a great success and thanks to this he attracted the attention of other famous European musicians.

  5. The end of his career • At cause of hisweakhealth in 1834 he put an end to hisconcerts and turned back to Genoa. His first incomebecame music lessons. • In 1836 he went to Paris to set up a casino butlostallhismoney and had to auction off allhisinstruments.

  6. Death and burial • In the year 1838 he went to Nice where his health worsened. • In 1840, after refusing the sacrament of the Last Rites he died from internal hemorrhaging. Although he wasn’t buried with catholic Rites because people thought he made an agreement with the devil because they thought he was so amazing at playing the violin. • So at the end he was buried in the cemetary of Parma in 1876.

  7. REMEMBER: “PAGANINI NON RIPETE”

  8. PAGANINI’S operas • 24 Capricci for Violin • La Primavera • Il Carnevale di Venezia • Le Streghe • Tarantella in la minore

  9. I hopeyoulikedit By Giacomo Mancini

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