A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers. 1.09
many towns, the scenes of former triumphs, and in the latter year Pope Leo XII. decorated him with the Order of the Golden Spur, as a mark of appreciation of his great talent. He now decided to visit Vienna, and arrived there on the 16th March, 1828. He gave his first concert on the 29th of that month, an event which threw his audience into "an indescribable paroxysm of enthusiasm." M. Schilling thus describes the scene. " The first note he played on his Guarnerius—indeed, from his first step into the room—his reputation was decided in Germany. Acted upon as by an electric spark, a brilliant halo of glory appeared to invest his whole person ; he stood before us like a miraculous apparition in the domain of art." Even the shopkeepers vied with each other in rendering homage to the wonderful Italian, and the pitch of enthusiasm was carried to so great an extent that goods in the windows were labelled a la Paganini. Hats, gloves, shoes, in fact all articles of dress and fashion were named after him ; any extraordinary stroke at billiards was called tin coup a la Paganini; snuff-boxes, cigar cases and the heads of walking sticks were embellished with his portrait ; verses appeared in every publication, in fact, the name of Paganini seemed the all absorbing topic of the time. At the
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