The Paganini Competition (aka Premio Paganini or Paganini Concore) is an international violin competition named after the famed virtuoso and founder of...
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Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (Italian: [ni(k)koˈlɔ ppaɡaˈniːni] ; 27 October 1782 – 27 May 1840) was an Italian violinist and composer. He was the most...
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Caprice No. 24 in A minor is the final caprice of Niccolò Paganini's 24 Caprices, and a famous work for solo violin. The caprice, in the key of A minor...
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Eugene Fodor (violinist) (category Paganini Competition prize-winners)
Post Competition in Washington, D.C., and the Young Musicians Foundation Competition in Los Angeles. He went on to win first prize in the Paganini Competition...
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the first prize winner of the 55th edition of the International Paganini Competition in Genoa, Italy, aged just 17. He was also the first prize winner...
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Eugene Sârbu (category Prize-winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition)
the violin). In 1978, he won both the Paganini Competition and the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition. He premiered works from living composers...
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edition of the International Paganini Competition in Genoa, Italy in 2015 and the first prize winner of the Sibelius Competition in Helsinki, Finland in 2022...
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Kinski Paganini, also known simply as Paganini, is a 1989 biographical film written, directed by and starring Klaus Kinski. Based on the life and career...
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composed by Niccolò Paganini and dates from the mid-to-late 1810s. It was premiered in Naples, Italy on 31 March 1819. Paganini intended the Concerto...
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Gidon Kremer (category Paganini Competition prize-winners)
first prize at the Paganini Competition in Genoa, and finally first prize again in 1970 at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Kremer's...
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2 in B minor, Op. 7, was composed by Niccolò Paganini in Italy in 1826. In his Second Concerto, Paganini holds back on the demonstration of virtuosity...
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Ilya Kaler (category Paganini Competition prize-winners)
three of the International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow, 1986); the Sibelius (Helsinki, 1985); and the Paganini (Genoa, 1981). Born into a family of...
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Solo Violin were written in groups (seven, five and twelve) by Niccolò Paganini between 1802 and 1817. They are also designated as M.S. 25 in Maria Rosa...
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Ara Malikian (category Paganini Competition prize-winners)
Paganini, the "Six Sonatas" of Eugène Ysaÿe, and the "Sonatas and Partitas" of J.S. Bach. Malikian has won first prizes in international competitions...
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Salvatore Accardo (category Paganini Competition prize-winners)
at the age of 13 performing Paganini's Capricci. In 1958 Accardo became the first prize winner of the Paganini Competition in Genoa. In the 1970s he was...
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Il Cannone Guarnerius (redirect from Paganini Violin)
Italian violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840), because of its power and resonance. So associated is Paganini with Il Cannone that it is common...
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Isabelle Faust (category Paganini Competition prize-winners)
Violin Competition Leopold Mozart in Augsburg, First Prize 1990: Premio Quadrivio Competition (Rovigo, Italy), First Prize 1993: Paganini Competition in Genoa...
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Leonidas Kavakos (category Paganini Competition prize-winners)
several international violin competition prizes, including the Sibelius, Paganini, Naumburg, and Indianapolis competitions. He is an Onassis Foundation...
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Paganini Horror is a 1989 Italian horror film directed by Luigi Cozzi. The film tells the story of a largely female rock band who acquires an unpublished...
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Sayaka Shoji (category Paganini Competition prize-winners)
violinist. She was the first Japanese and youngest winner at the Paganini Competition in Genoa in 1999. Shoji was born in Tokyo into an artistic family...
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may also refer to: Paganini (operetta), an operetta by Franz Lehár Paganini Competition, a violin competition started in 1954 Paganini Quartet, a string...
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Ilya Gringolts (category Paganini Competition prize-winners)
Sixth Prize 1997: Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, Junior Division, Laureate 1998: Paganini Competition in Genoa, Italy: First Prize 2001-2003: BBC...
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virtuoso violinist Niccolò Paganini in the early 19th century. The piece is known for its fast tempo and technical difficulty. Paganini is said to have been...
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The Devil's Violinist (category Cultural depictions of Niccolò Paganini)
but Paganini refuses and says "I am nobody's servant". The bet stands and Paganini ends up losing his violin. At a practice in London, Paganini borrows...
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Vladimir Spivakov (category Paganini Competition prize-winners)
Vladimir Teodorovich Spivakov (Russian: Влади́мир Теодо́рович Спивако́в; born 12 September 1944) is a Soviet and Russian conductor and violinist best known...
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Jean-Jacques Kantorow (category Paganini Competition prize-winners)
prizes in the Carl Flesch Competition (London), the (Genoa) Paganini Competition, and the Geneva International Competition. Since the 1970s he has been...
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Lü Siqing (category Paganini Competition prize-winners)
He was the first Asian violinist to win the first prize at the Paganini Competition in 1987. Lü was born in 1969 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. As a child...
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13, nicknamed Devil's Laughter or Devil's Chuckle, is one of Niccolò Paganini's renowned 24 Caprices for Solo Violin. It is the only one of the suite...
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Competition (Polish: Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina), often referred to as the Chopin Competition, is a piano competition held...
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Paganini is an operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár. The German libretto was by Paul Knepler [de] and Bela Jenbach. Lehár composed the work as a vehicle...
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