Niccolo Paganini, the violinist of the devil
Appeared to play with fire lighting up the stage. Notes of his violin out prodigious and back it all seemed to burn in flames. Then the figure grew further. Became a veritable colossus. They saw the public. Skinny, tall, erect, with hands that seemed to come to the knees; of costumes disjointed, often tattered, fluttering her long hair while the arc described parables in the air. No one explained how he could play so brilliantly. His long fingers ate the violin. In fact, always had the feeling that played in violin toy. As a child, his father, Mr. Paganini, dealer bad been ambitious, he said: "Nicolas, you're gonna be the greatest violinist in the world, my mind runs, and ran. Because the hard way, the youngster would play like nobody has done nor will do.
But there who said she saw him. One night, long before his legend grew. There was someone who claimed to have seen invoke the devil worship the Devil and repeat the oath. "He said his soul was his return to play like an angel. A light that blinded me, Paganini stood up and kept going "and that witness said. There were those who believed him and he did not believe him. More that version was growing and people to riot to see, and hear him play. Tickets were snatched. Everyone had heard of him, not just religion. Even the beggars and prostitutes bought their tickets just announced he would play Nicolò Paganini, "Fiddler of the devil", as they started to call him.
The truth is that life Paganini smiled where passed, nor could it be otherwise: such genius. Ugly as hell, their presence impacted the women to the point of throwing himself at her feet. And if not enough glamor, there was his way of playing (the violin, say). One of them who refused to love him, who was locked in his room and had given orders that under no circumstances let in at home Paganini, the virtuoso he managed to reach the balcony of the room and improvise a sonata for a single rope! When the lady realized the violin feat made him a genius in his bed.
So Paganini went from woman to woman, from bed to bed. Was what appealed to him, along with money to spend, to play. Maybe because during his childhood he had suffered poverty and misery, money he could lay his hands money spent. And just as quickly returned to spend more. With the advantage of sometimes not spent on violins. Ever going to play at a palace and he forgot his own instrument, the host of noble birth and philanthropist, he pulled his staff Guarnerius cabinet where I had it in view of everybody, and lent it to Paganini to out of trouble. After violinist was playing, the prince, duke, marquis or whatever it was, was not able to keep the violin in place. Paganini gave it a kiss while his hands.
Perhaps the legend of the devil violinist was based on what ever story about his Tartini sonata "The Devil's Trill":
"One night in 1713, I dreamed I had made a pact with the Devil and was under my orders. Everything was going wonderfully well, all my desires were more than anticipated and satisfied by my new servant. It happened that, in one point, I gave my violin and challenged him to play for me any romantic piece. My surprise was great when I heard him play, with great bravery and intelligence, a sonata so unusual and romantic like never heard before. That was my wonder, ecstasy and delight that I was stunned and violent emotion aroused me. Immediately I took my violin wishing to remember at least part of what had just heard, but in vain. The sonata I wrote then is, by far the best I have ever written and still call it "The Devil's Sonata", but it was so inferior to what he had heard in the dream that I would have liked to break my violin music pieces and leave forever ...."
Niccolo Paganini died in Nice, France on May 27, 1840, but the bishop of Nice refused permission for his funeral and his coffin remained several years in a basement. The fame that had been woven around his person and his talent, forged in a possible deal with the devil, was decisive in this ecclesiastical decision, especially since Paganini himself refused to come to church and refute those comments. Only in 1876 was allowed to the funeral and his remains were transferred to the Parma cemetery.
Welcome the devil, if the one who illuminated Paganini to play as he did, to give him the violin that magical connotation to allow him to leave his legacy violin par excellence: Twenty-Four Caprices for solo violin, unenforceable ...