Paganini
[pag-uh-nee-nee, pah-guh-; Italian pah-gah-nee-nee]
- Nic·co·lò [nik-uh-loh; Italian neek-kaw-law] /ˈnɪk əˌloʊ; Italian ˌnik kɔˈlɔ/, 1784–1840, Italian composer and violinist.
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Contemporary Examples of paganini
We might not look like Jordan or play like Paganini or paint like Toulouse-Lautrec.
Historical Examples of paganini
My heart relented; I gave him the order, and paid Paganini the dividend.
He was as legendary even among the common people as Paganini.
He also arranged the second set of Paganini's caprices, Opus 10.
A Popular History of the Art of MusicW. S. B. Mathews
They say that Paganini sold his soul to the Ashmodai for a fiddle.
Jewish ChildrenSholem Naumovich Rabinovich
This explains in a measure Paganini's inferior rank as a composer.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by YearEdwin Emerson
Paganini
- Niccolò (nikkoˈlɔ). 1782–1840, Italian violinist and composer
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