Niccolò Paganini
Italian violinist, 1782-1840
"Paganini was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. His 24 Caprices for Solo Violin Op.1 are among the best known of his compositions, and have served as an inspiration for many prominent composers. Paganini was also the inspiration of many prominent composers. Both ""La Campanella"" and the A minor Caprice (No. 24) have been an object of interest for a number of composers. Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Boris Blacher, Andrew Lloyd Webber, George Rochberg and Witold Lutosławski, among others, wrote well-known variations on these themes."
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italienischer Geiger, Gitarrist und Komponist (1782-1840). Eigenh. Brief mit Unterschrift. Paris. 4to. 1 p. Mit Adresse.
$ 4,809 / 4.500 €
(77071)
An Gottfried-Engelbert Anders in Paris. Dankesbrief über das Buch, das Anders dem Virtuosen widmen möchte: „[…] Je vous remercie de tout l'intérêt que vous me témoignez, trop heureux que vous veuillez employer votre plume à parler de moi ; je vous offre tous mes services pour tous les renseignements que vous pourrez désirer […]“ - Noch im selben Jahr wurde die Biographie Anders über Paganini bei Robinson veröffentlicht. Faltspuren. Mit leichtem Papierverlust des Respektblattes.
Italian violin virtuoso (1782-1840). Autograph letter signed. Florence. 4to. 1 p. Double sheet. With address and remains of a red seal. Age toning; folded.
$ 12,823 / 12.000 €
(91901)
Beautiful letter to his close friend, the lawyer Luigi Germi, with news about a successful concert in Siena and his itinerary to Rome via Bologna, where he would meet his father Antonio and Marietta Banti, whom he intended to propose to, and the Marche. The translated letter in full: "I was in Siena as I told you in my previous [letter]. I gave the second Academy [concert], and despite the water the theater was packed. My friend - the speech of the Sienese is so sweet and insinuating, that it cannot be expressed.
Tomorrow I will leave for Bologna where I will stay for two days to give father a hug and see my beloved Marietta again. Afterwards I shall cross the Marche to find myself in Rome for the holidays. Write to me there, tell me how you are, and I will not fail to meet you and correspond with you as a true friend [...]". Two short postscripts read: "The third Academy in Florence went very well"; "You would do me a favor in giving excellent news about me to the family and greet the good Dellepiane from me". - Marietta Banti's father ultimately didn't allow his daughter to marry the famous virtuoso, very likely because of the scandal surrounding his affair with Angelica Cavanna in 1815. When Cavanna was pregnant with Paganini's child, the couple fled to the mountains, which led to his eventual short imprisonment for abduction and seduction of a minor. The child was stillborn and Paganini's vague marriage plans, which he had discussed with his friend Germi, were, of course, shattered. Rumors and exaggerated accounts of the affair would haunt Paganini for the rest of his life. "Fui a Siena come ti dissi nell'antecedente mia. Diedi la seconda Accademia, e nonostante l'acqua il teatro fu pienissimo. Amico – la parlata delle Sienesi è tanto dolce ed insinuante, che non si può esprimere. Domani partirò per Bologna ove resterò due giorni per dare un amplesso al papà e rivedere la mia adorata Marietta. Indi traverserò la Marca per trovarmi nelle feste a Roma. Scrivimi per colà, dimmi come stai, ch'io non mancherò di riscontrarti e corrisponderti da Vero amico [...]", postscript: "La terza Accademia a Firenze andò benissimo."; "Mi farai cosa grata di dare ottime nuove di me alla famiglia e salutarmi il brave Dellepiane"..
Violinist, Gitarrist und Komponist (1782-1840). Autograph letter signed ("Paganini"). O. O. 06.12.1837. ½ S. 4to. Mit eh. Adresse (Faltbrief).
$ 8,015 / 7.500 €
(48329/BN30761)
To his publisher Antonio Pacini in Paris; a side letter to a letter addressed to Pacini which was erroneously sent to himself: "Caro Pacini, Avendo ricevuto dalla posta una lettera con altra a voi diretta, ve le spicco tutte due curioso di sapere, se capite nulla nella mia, e se rilevate qualche cosa dalla vostra!" - Somewhat spotty, some damage to edges; left edge with traces from mounting.
Italian violin virtuoso (1782-1840). Album of 12 autograph manuscripts signed by Paganini, Rossini and others, containing mainly complete songs and piano pieces. Boulogne-sur-Mer, Paris, Calais, Clermont and elsewhere. 22 pages. Oblong 4to (c.17 x 27 cm). 8-stave paper, contemporary brown polished calf, stamped in gilt and blind ("Clara Mangin"), presentation inscription.
$ 58,773 / 55.000 €
(72654/BN46545)
Album of 12 autograph manuscripts signed by Paganini, Rossini and others, containing mainly complete songs and piano pieces. 1) Paganini, Niccolò. Album-leaf comprising two chromatic scale-passages in contrary motion, each spanning two octaves, twenty-six bars music in all, notated for treble & bass in brown ink on three two-stave systems, signed and inscribed ("All' Egregia Madamigella Clara Mangin ... Boulogne, li 15. Agosto 1834 Nicolò Paganini"). - 2) Rossini, Gioachino. Autograph manuscript of "Mi lagnerò tacendo", signed ("G.
Rossini"), comprising a sixteen-bar setting of Metastasio's text, notated in dark brown ink on two three-stave systems per page, [c.1836], 2 pages. Together with: Théodore Labarre (the song "Mathilde", 2 pages) - Georges Mathius ("Andantino" in E minor for piano, 3 pages, 1836) -Jules Godefroy ("Pensée du moment", for piano, 2 pages, 1835) - Henri Bertini ("Téma" for piano, signed and inscribed 14 Mai 1836. HBertini") - Theodore Döhler (Allegro in c minor for piano, signed) - Sigismond Thalberg (musical quotation of an 'Andantino' in G) - George Onslow ('Allegretto con moto' in E-flat, for piano, signed "...23 Janvier 1846 George Onslow", 3 pages) - Eugene Ortolan ('Souvenirs d'auvergne' in F, 3 pages, 2 September 1847), and others in the album of Clara Mangin, 22 pages, oblong 8vo (c.17 x 27cm), the manuscripts all written directly into the album, 8-stave paper, contemporary brown polished calf, stamped in gilt and blind ("Clara Mangin"), presentation inscription, 26 June 1834, Boulogne, Paris, Calais, Clermont and elsewhere, 1836-1847, somewhat worn, with front cover detached. - Autograph music by Paganini is rarely offered for sale. This is a fine album of the 1830s-1840s, containing mainly complete works rather than short quotations. Rossini's song is one of many such settings that the composer made of his favourite Metastasian poem. The volume was given to Clara Stéphanie Mangin of Boulogne in 1834, in recognition of winning a music prize. We learn from the three-page piano work by George Onslow in 1846 that Clara had become Comtesse d'Espinay Theix Royat; the Château de Theix was near Clermont-Ferrand..