🎻Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840)

 🎻Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) rightfully bore the title of the most virtuoso violinist of all time and people.

🎻Contemporaries described the violinist as a rather gloomy person.

🎻The violinist's father was an ordinary loader who worked in the port.

🎻Already at the age of 8, Paganini wrote a sonata for violin.

🎻From early childhood, the despotic father forced young Niccolo to constantly study music, not letting him even go for a walk outside. From such stress, the boy fell into a coma and was almost buried alive, because he was considered dead.

🎻The violinist gave his first concert when he was only eleven years old.

🎻When young Niccolo's father brought him to the famous violinist Alessandro Rolla, he heard the child playing and said that he could not teach him anything, because he already knew everything

🎻Once Paganini made a bet that he could conduct an entire orchestra using a violin with only two strings. And, of course, he won the bet.

🎻There were stormy romances between the violinist and two sisters of Napoleon Bonaparte, but both of them did not last long.

🎻On Napoleon's birthday, Paganini also played on a bet on just one string.

🎻The violinist was never particularly healthy and was often ill.

🎻For three years, Paganini lived with some noble lady on her estate in Tuscany, but he hid her name so carefully that it never reached us.

🎻Gambling for money was Paganini's main passion throughout his life.

🎻At one time, Paganini held the position of captain of the personal guard of Eliza Bonaparte, the sister of the French emperor.

🎻Paganini claimed that the secret of his mastery was in a complete and undivided spiritual fusion with the violin.

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