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Violinists, Influence, Biography, Paganini, nicolo, 1782-1840, Violin music, history and criticismPeople
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-278), discography (page 278), filmography (page 278), web resources, and index.
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