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Variations on a theme from the ballet of Salvatore Viganò Il noce di Benevento , music by Franz Xaver Süssmayr. First performed at a solo concert in La Scala on October 29, 1813. The audience was so impressed that they requested a repeat. [4]
By 1800, Paganini and his father traveled to Livorno, where Paganini played in concerts and his father resumed his maritime work. In 1801, the 18-year-old Paganini was appointed first violin of the Republic of Lucca , but a substantial portion of his income came from freelancing.
Nicolo Paganini: His Life and Work. London: E. Shore & Co. ISBN 0-559-80636-1. Philippe Borer, The Twenty-Four Caprices of Niccolò Paganini. Their significance for the history of violin playing and the music of the Romantic era, Stiftung Zentralstelle der Studentenschaft der Universität Zürich, Zurich, 1997
Caprice No. 24 in A minor is the final caprice of Niccolò Paganini's 24 Caprices, and a famous work for solo violin. The caprice, in the key of A minor , consists of a theme , 11 variations , and a finale.
Since Paganini, many variations on the theme have been written, most notably those by Jean-Baptiste Arban, Del Staigers, Herbert L. Clarke for the cornet, trumpet, and euphonium, Francisco Tárrega and Johann Kaspar Mertz for classical guitar, Ignace Gibsone and Louis Moreau Gottschalk for piano, and Giovanni Bottesini for double bass. [3]
The first theme of the majestic first movement, a theme that generates from "Le Streghe" (Witches's Dance) and the beginning of the second are also found in Paganini's "Sonata Varsavia" (Warsaw Sonata). The Andante is perhaps musically the central section of the work. In the third movement the recurrent idea is an ingenious melody "alla ...
The tempo marking here means "brisk and majestic". The movement modulates from D minor → F major → A minor → D minor → D major. The first movement begins with a powerful Beethoven-esque theme with striking similarity to the third movement of Vivaldi's Violin Concerto No. 6 consisting of a six-note melody, played by the viola and violin sections, punctuated by strong and syncopated ...
Rachmaninoff ca. 1933. The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, (Russian: Рапсодия на тему Паганини, Rapsodiya na temu Paganini) is a concertante work written by Sergei Rachmaninoff for piano and orchestra, closely resembling a piano concerto, all in a single movement.