Biographical Notice of Nicolo Paganini: With an Analysis of His Compositions and a Sketch of the History of the Violin

by François-Joseph Fétis

Excerpt from Biographical Notice of Nicolo Paganini: With an Analysis of His Compositions and a Sketch of the History of the Violin

Ohne Bunde (violins without band or side pieces), which possessed only three strings, as in the improved Viols, the body of which was formed of belly and back joined by side pieces, as in our Violins, Tenors, and Basses. The smaller kinds also possessed only three strings; the larger kind had four; there were also others with five, six, and seven strings.

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Genres: Music

117 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1851

About the author

François-Joseph Fétis was a Belgian musicologist, composer, teacher, and one of the most influential music critics of the 19th century. His enormous compilation of biographical data in the Biographie universelle des musiciens remains an important source of information today.

Reviews

[Galicius]

This interesting work gives first a brief history of how violin developed in Western Europe. We then have a biography of Paganini bringing to life the artist and dispelling the myths about him that still abound in popular literature. There is much to this writing strengthened by the author’s scholarship and personal knowledge of the artist.