It's probably no surprise that Niccolo Paganini loved food, because as a youngster he was deprived of it. When he was five, he began to play the mandolin; two years later he switched to violin, all ...

Some thought he was a metaphorical musical God, others thought he literally got his virtuosity from a deal with the Devil. But what was the real story behind Niccolò Paganini’s genius? Born on 27 ...

As Sherlock Holmes once observed, there's nothing new under the sun. We may live in the internet age but aspects of life online have certainly been around before. Take music piracy, for instance.

The life story of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso in the early 19th Century.

An archive treat from the 1990s, as Tom Baker plays Beelzebub in Hattie Naylor's play about Niccolò Paganini, regarded as one of the world’s greatest ever violinists. Born in Genoa in 1782, some ...

The long lines of rapid-fire semi-quavers in Niccolò Paganini's Moto perpetuo demands the greatest precision and dexterity from nimble-fingered violinists. But tell that to Albert Wieder… and his tuba ...

A human and artistic portrait of Niccolò Paganini told by violinist Uto Ughi with I Filarmonici di Roma, who perform some of his most famous pieces, including: Capriccio No. 1 for solo violin; ...

The virtuoso violinist Niccolò Paganini was one of the world’s first performer idols. With his dramatic sense of fashion, fondness for gambling and women, and programs of pieces that would have left ...