PAGANINI's legend: "The Devil's violin"

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PAGANINI, Niccolò borns in Genoa, in 1782, his studies violin and guitar mandolin. He has only 12 years old when starts to plays concerts writes form himself, to pay his musicians studies, his family wasn't rich. He has 18 when he is knows in all North Italy, but His fame as a violinist was only matched by his reputation as a gambler and womanizer. It's only in 1821 Niccolò Paganini plays in Vienna, and, after, becames famous in all Europe. His technical ability, and his willingness to display them, gained much acclaim from critics across Europe. In addition to his own compositions, theme and variations being the most popular; also his techique becames popular, in North Italy, a legend talks his technique becames from 'a pact with Devil' because is not easy to reproduce all his technique; his seemingly unnatural ability might have been a result of particular syndrome: "Marfan syndrome"; I thinks that story becames from Italian's Catholic Churchs, for his bad style-life. Every concerts his fingers bleeds or the big work supported: in a particular concercert the Turin's Governor ask to Paganini to repeat the last 'concerto', but him answer: "Paganini doesn't repeat" : that answer becames, in Italian language, a tipically "way of saying", used still now, that example to understand to you the big impact to all italian society of Paganini's phenomenon. We can saids, as some musicians saids that in the music exist "before Paganini" and "after Paganini"; the only musician (for me) has had that big impact was for rock music and for electic guitar as paganini has had for classic musica and for Violin strument. Jimi Endrix. Also that musician played his struments with 2 hans, as paganini the violin and also many musiians start to plays the stru,ment in the same way of these big 'virtuosi'. That legend remains still only few years ago. Another particulary alimented Paganini's legend is his violin, called "cannon" for his big power of sound. Now, every 2 years in Genoa, the Paganini's town, there is a Paganini Music Festival for violin's musicians. is a contest: who wins can plays the Paganini's Cannon in the last night show.