A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers. 1.09
a witty badinage to the brilliancy and coquetry of which is added a pizzicato, while the power and felicitous application belong to himself alone. It would be impossible to follow through the details of execution an artist so original as Paganini in his manner of treating the violin. Nevertheless the novelty of some parts of his playing is so striking, that they require notice. We should first signalize the agility and force which lie displays in the pizzicato even in volate prestissime, which he plays half with the bow, half pizzicato, without ever slackening the time. Lately he has succeeded in making the shake pizzicato ; but this is more astonishing than agreeable. Those flageolet notes or harmonics, which, producing the poorest effects, have, until now, been considered as mere trickery, Paganini has so improved, and employs so happily, that he has rendered them one of the legitimate resources of the violin. The grace and expression of the melody he produces, cannot be described, but there are facts which can be stated. One of the most surprising is, that he not only stops double in the harmonics with as much accuracy, purity, and rapidity, as in the usual position, but that he draws powerful effects from these sounds, which hitherto no violinist has been able to employ otherwise than
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