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Paganini caprice 19
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5 minutes, 33 seconds long
Published 3 January, 2010
Keywords: Jack Glatzer The 19th caprice can be compared with the 17th, because it to is a conversation caprice and it too had examples of Paganini's maybe sardonic humour. It begins with two fanfares but there is a gracenote slide which shows that this is a silly fanfare, bizarre, strange not a noble fanfare in the least. [Music] And then what happens is not a noble conversations because the upper voice chatters and is rather caustic, the female voice, and again the lower voice is grumpy. [Music] I wonder if this is not a picture of Paganini's stormy relationship with his mistress Antonia Bianchi, that high strong and rather mediocre singer who was his mistress for quite a few years in rather an unhappy relationship most of the time buy she was the mother of the beloved son of Paganini, Achille Sirus Alexander Paganini, that magnificent noble name. In any case the middle section is a wild tantrum on one string as if Paganini here is so angry he can't control himself. [Music] And the fingers go up almost with the speed of lightening to the very top notes of the violin all played on one string. [Music] And we know that he used to break his strings and amaze audiences by playing on one string. The way in which he was led to explore playing this one string playing is worth recalling. He was at the court in Luca, the court of the sister of Napoleon where he was employed and there was a beautiful woman whom he loved and he wanted to relate his love by playing a famous piece 'The cena amorosa for two strings' and princess was so amazed by this she said 'You've done the impossible on two strings, could you do it on one?', and then he said 'I promised on the spot to make the attempt, the idea intrigued my imagination and some weeks later I composed a sonata called 'Napoleon: for the fourth string alone'. My predilection for the G string dates from that evening.' The technique of the Napoleon sonata and of the Moses fantasy is seen in this short but wonderful and wild passage of the 19th caprice. [Music]
