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Cyclopedia of music and musicians, 1888
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1scriptions, works into which the transcribers put far more of their own individuality than they left of Paganini's. Works: Ventiquattro capricci per violino solo, op. 1; Sei sonate per violino e chitarra, op. 2; do., op. 3; Tre gran quartetti a violino, viola, chitarra e violoncello, op. 4 and 5; Concerto in E-flat (solo-part in D, for violin tuned a semitone higher than usual), op. 6; do. in B minor (rondo à la clochette), op. 7; Le streghe, variations on a theme by Simon Mayr, op. 8; Variations on "God save the King," op. 9; Il carnevale di Venezia, burlesque variations on a popular air, op. 10; Perpetuum mobile, op. 11; Variations on "Non più mesta," op. 12; do. on "Di tanti palpiti," op. 13; 60 do., in all keys, on the air "Barucaba." Only the first five raconto storico di Oreste Bruni (Florence, 1873); Elise Polko, N. P. und die Geigenbauer (Leipsic, 1875).
3PAGEN UND DER KÖNIGSTOCHTER, VOM, four ballads for soli, chorus, and orchestra, by E. Geibel, music by Schumann, op. 140, first performed at Düsseldorf, Dec. 2, 1852. Characters represented: Prinzess, Königin, and Nixe (S.); Alto solo; Page (T.); König, Meermann, and Spielmann (B.). This work was given in Leipsic, Nov. 19, 1861. Published by Rieter-Biedermann (Leipsic and Winterthur, 1858). Posthumous works, No. 5. By Breitkopf & Härtel, Schumann Werke, Serie ix., No. 13.—Neue Zeitschr., liii. 27.
5PAGLIARDI, GIOVANNI MARIA, Florentine dramatic composer, maestro di cappella to the Grand Duke of Tuscany during the second half of the 17th century. Works—Operas: Caligula delirante, Venice, 1672; Lisimacco, ib., 1673; Numa Pomplio, ib., 1674.
7opus numbers were published during his life-time; other compositions ascribed to him are spurious.—M. Schottky, Paganini's Leben und Treiben als Künstler und als Mensch (Prague, 1830; translation by Ludolf Vinata, Hamburg); George Harris, Paganini in seinem Reisewagen und Zimmer, etc. (Vierweg, Brunswick, 1830); Ilmenau, Leben, Charakter, und Kunst des Ritter N. P. (1830); M. J. Imbert de la Phalèque, Notice sur . . . N. P. (Paris); Guhr, Über Paganini's Kunst die Violine zu spielen (1829, English translation by Sibilla Novello, London, 1831); G. E. Auders, Paganini, sa vie, sa personne et quelques mots sur son secret (Delaunay, Paris, 1831); Fr. Fayolle, Paganini et de Bériot (Paris, 1831); Bennati, Notice physiologique sur . . . Paganini (read before the Académie Royale des Sciences, Paris, 1831; Revue musicale, xi. 113–116); Giancarlo Conestabile, Vita di N. P. da Genova (Perugia, 1851); F. J. Fétis, Notice biographique sur N. P. (Paris, 1851; English translation by Wellington Guernsey, London, 1852); Niccolò Paganini, etc.,
9PAINE, JOHN KNOWLES, born in Portland, Maine, Jan. 9, 1839, still living, 1890. His first musical instruction was in his native town from H. Kotzschmar. In 1858 he went to Berlin, where he studied the organ and counterpoint under Haupt, singing under Fischer, and instrumentation under Weprecht until 1861, when he returned to the United States. After giving organ concerts in several cities he settled in Boston, where he held the position of organist at the West Church, Cambridge Street, for about a year. In 1862 he was engaged as music teacher at Harvard University, and organist at Appleton Chapel in Cambridge, where he has lived ever since. In 1876 he was invested with a full professorship of music at Harvard, the first chair of the sort created at
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