24 Caprices, Opus 1 帕格尼尼 隨想曲 作品

帕格尼尼的聲譽始終取決於他作為小提琴家的驚人技藝，再加上他的表演能力，他能以驚人的精湛技藝征服聽眾，令聽者目瞪口呆。他的演奏為十九世紀的其他演奏家帶來了靈感，在華沙向蕭邦推薦了鋼琴練習曲，並向李斯特推薦了帕格尼尼研究的素材，李斯特於 1838 年創作了帕格尼尼研究。帕格尼尼的外表給人們留下了深刻印象。他憔悴的五官、駝背的肩膀和陰沉的衣著，都讓人聯想到他與魔鬼的關係，據稱魔鬼是他力量的源泉，而他的秘書哈裡斯在他的旅行中經常出現在他身邊，也證實了這種聯想。帕格尼尼本人否認了與魔鬼簽訂契約的說法，他以其特有的對公共關係價值的理解，在一個更加輕信的時代，講述了天使在夢中拜訪他的母親，預言了他的出生和他的天才"

作曲家: Paganini Niccolò
出版社: Alfred Music
風格: Masterwork
原文簡介:
Paganini's popular reputation rested always on his phenomenal technique as a violinist, coupled with a showman's ability to dominate an audience and to stupefy those who heard him by astonishing feats of virtuosity. His playing served as an inspiration to other performers in the nineteenth century, suggesting to Chopin, in Warsaw, the piano Etudes, and to Liszt the material of the Paganini studies that he wrote in 1838. The very appearance of Paganini impressed people. His gaunt aquiline features, his suggestion of hunched shoulders and his sombre clothing, gave rise to legends of association with the Devil, the alleged source of his power, an association supported by the frequent appearance by his side on his travels of his secretary, one Harris, thought by some to be a familiar spirit or a Mephistopheles watching over his Faust. Stories of a pact with the Devil were denied by Paganini himself, who, with characteristic understanding of the value of public relations in a more credulous age, told of an angelic visitation to his mother, in a dream, foretelling his birth and his genius.