A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers. 1.09
the Cathedral at Genoa, under whom he made rapid progress. He also studied harmony and counterpoint under Gnecco. Scarcely nine years of age young Paganini composed his first sonata, which production is unfortunately lost. He was also desired by his violin master to perform every Sunday in church a violin concerto, a circumstance to which Paganini himself attached much importance, as having forced him to the constant study of fresh pieces. In 1793, the young virtuoso appeared in public for the first time, in a concert of the principal theatre of Genoa, on which occasion he played variations of his own composition on the French air " La Carmagnole," with immense success. About 1795 Paganini the elder took his gifted son to Parma with the intention of placing him under Allessandro Rolla, then famous as a conductor and composer. Paganini in a Vienna periodical thus relates their first meeting. " On arriving at Rollas house, we found him ill and in bed, and appeared little inclined to see us. His wife, however, conducted us into a room adjoining the bedroom until she had communicated with her husband. Finding on the table of the room into which we had been ushered, a violin and the music of Rolla's last concerto, I took up the instrument and played the piece
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Dictionary Fiddlers Cathedral Genoa Gnecco Paganini Sunday Paganini Genoa French La Carmagnole Paganini Parma Allessandro Rolla Vienna Rollas Rolla About Paganini His Finding
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