Interesting Facts:

• He had excessive flexibility in the joints.

• This enabled Paganini to perform the astonishing double-stopping and roulades for which he was famous.

• His wrist were so lose he could move and twist them in all directions.

• In performance he enjoyed playing tricks like tuning his strings a semitone high or playing the majority of a piece of one string after breaking the other three.

His Playings

• His playings were so often so beautiful that his audiences often burst into tears.

• His music was so difficult it was commonly thought he entered into a pack with the devil.

• When he played he would earn large sums of money.

Important Dates:

• Began to perform in public and composed his first sonata in 1790.

• In 1795 he went to Italy to study but the teachers told him they could do nothing more for him.

• In 1797 he started concert tours.

• In 1805-1808 he was the court solo violinist at Luca’s, appointed by Napoleon's sister Elisa Bacciocchi.

• In 1809 Nicolo became a free lance soloist performing his own music and he performed concerts through Italy.

• In early 1828 Nicolo began a 6 and a half hour tour that started in Vienna and ended in Paris In September. 1834.

Life Dates

• Nicolo Paganini was born in Italy on October 27, 1782

• He was one of six children born to Teresa and Antonio Paganini

• He died in Nice, France on, May 27, 1840