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PAGANINI, Niccolò (1782-1840). Autograph letter signed with flourish ("Nicolò Paganini"), to Luigi Bartolomeo Migone, Marseilles, 4 September 1839. 1 page, small 4to, small hole touching two words, otherwise a fine example, framed with a portrait in giltwood frame.
PAGANINI TALKS BUSINESS WITH HIS BANKER
Writing to his Genoese banker the year before he died, Paganini instructs him on a number of business matters, including bank transactions and payments to and from his account. He informs Migone "I shall probably leave with the steamboat for Genoa on the 16th and stay, together with my son and a servant, at the Four Nations Hotel. At home we will talk, chatter and have a good time." One of the greatest virtuoso instrumentalists of the 19th century, Paganini extended the breadth of the violin by his imaginative use of harmonics, perfected the use of double and triple stops, and successfully revived the practice of scordatura (variant tunings). After a period spent as court violinist to the Princess of Lucca from 1805, his ensuing success in Milan carried his fame throughout Europe. He officially retired in 1835.
Published in Paganini intimo, ed. A. Codiguola (Genoa, 1935), letter 265, p.610.
PAGANINI TALKS BUSINESS WITH HIS BANKER
Writing to his Genoese banker the year before he died, Paganini instructs him on a number of business matters, including bank transactions and payments to and from his account. He informs Migone "I shall probably leave with the steamboat for Genoa on the 16th and stay, together with my son and a servant, at the Four Nations Hotel. At home we will talk, chatter and have a good time." One of the greatest virtuoso instrumentalists of the 19th century, Paganini extended the breadth of the violin by his imaginative use of harmonics, perfected the use of double and triple stops, and successfully revived the practice of scordatura (variant tunings). After a period spent as court violinist to the Princess of Lucca from 1805, his ensuing success in Milan carried his fame throughout Europe. He officially retired in 1835.
Published in Paganini intimo, ed. A. Codiguola (Genoa, 1935), letter 265, p.610.