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Famous violinists and fine violins : historical notes, anecdotes, and reminiscences, 1896
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1attempted to play the Seventh Concerto of Pierre Rode, and, we are assured, the performance was beneath mediocrity!
3All these little details must be taken into account to enable me to elucidate the object I have in view, namely, to exhibit the cause of Paganini's wonderfully successful career; in other words, to make known his secret.
5Generally speaking, when a student of music proceeds from one professor to another, if the latter is really the more eminent in his profession, all the teaching of the former is laid aside or forgotten, but not entirely lost. It was no doubt the twanging of his father's mandoline which originated Paganini's love of pizzicato passages, and led to his proficiency as a guitar player, for which instrument he forsook the violin for about three years.
7When twelve years of age his father took him to Alessandro Rolla, who was a well-known professor of the violin at Parma; and although the latter said that the boy already knew all he could teach him, it was agreed that he should remain with him as a pupil for a twelvemonth, during which time he studied the art of composition under Ghiretti and his pupil Paër (afterwards a celebrated composer of operas), who was very kind to him; and in 1797, when thirteen years old, Nicolo Paganini returned to Genoa.
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