A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers. 1.09
once he wasted in one evening the proceeds of several concerts, and was obliged to borrow money on his violin, the source of his livelihood, in order to pay his gambling debts. On one occasion he was announced for a concert at Leghorn, but he had gambled away his money and pawned his violin, so that he was compelled to get the loan of an instrument in order to play in the evening. In this emergency he applied to M. Livron, a French merchant of Leghorn, and an excellent amateur performer, who possessed a Guarneri del Jesu violin, said to be one of the finest in the world. This valuable instrument was readily lent to young Paganini. After the concert, when Paganini returned the instrument to M. Livron, the latter who had been to hear him„ exclaimed, " Never will 1 profane the strings which your fingers have touched ! That instrument is yours.'' The astonishment and delight of the young artist may be more easily imagined than described. This instrument Paganini used at all his concerts, and at his death he bequeathed it to his native town, Genoa, where it is preserved in a glass case in the museum. The possession of this violin had the effect of causing Paganini to relinquish for a while the allurements of the gaming-table. Paganini himself tells us that a certain
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