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Boydell Press
Language
English
Pages
291

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Subjects
Violinists, Influence, Biography, Paganini, nicolo, 1782-1840, Violin music, history and criticism
People
Nicolò Paganini (1782-1840)
Places
Italy

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Paganini: the 'demonic' virtuoso
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Paganini's historical context as a violinist ; Demystifying virtuosity ; The 'Paganini cult' ; On theorising virtuosity and 'performance studies' ; Demythologising Paganini
'Demonic' violinist, magical virtuosity. Constructions of Paganini as 'demonic' ; Paganini on Paganini ; Conditions for 'demonisation'
Hypereroticism and violence. Hypereroticism ; Gendered power dynamics in performance ; Paganini as rock star
Sovereignty, domination, and conquest. Self-advancing entrepreneurialism ; 'Napoleonic' conquests ; Soloistic domination
Paganini's legacies. Paganini's misconstrued legacy of technique fetishisation ; Werktreue and virtuosity ; Paganini's legacy of self-expression ; Coda
Epilogue. Paganinian mythology : The fate of virtuosity among nineteenth-century Italian violinists ; The 'secret red book' ; Paganini's 'demonic' mythology after 1840 ; Paganini in film ; Paganini today
Appendix : Paganiniana in the British press (1840-1900). Paganini / Leigh Hunt ; The fancy concert / Leigh Hunt ; The violin (abridged from Blackwood's magazine) / Anonymous ; The devil's frills : a Dutch illustration of the water cure / Anonymous ; Paganini / Anonymous ; The wandering fiddler / Abraham Elder ; The fiddler's fate / Anonymous ; The mazed fiddler / W.J. Prowse ; Paganini's false teeth / Anonymous ; Paganini / Anonymous ; A vision of Paganini / Norman Oliphant ; Paganini's first love / Elise Polko ; The magician on the G string. A musical reminiscence of Weimar / Marian Millar ; The dead violin. An account of a strange occurrence / Walter Spinney ; New story of Paganini / Anonymous ; The violin of human strings / R.E. Andrews.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-278), discography (page 278), filmography (page 278), web resources, and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
787.2092
Library of Congress
ML418.P2 K28 2013, ML418.P2, ML418.P2 K39 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 291 pages
Number of pages
291

ID Numbers

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OL26922949M
Internet Archive
paganinidemonicv0000kawa
ISBN 10
1843837560
ISBN 13
9781843837565
LCCN
2013565017
OCLC/WorldCat
849248495

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