Mai kawabata paganini biography

          Kawabata's book looks very interesting - altough it doesn't seem to be a genuine biography.

          Separating fact from fiction, this book explores how the legendary violinist challenged the very notion of what it meant to be a musician.!

          Paganini

          Separating fact from fiction, this book explores how the legendary violinist challenged the very notion of what it meant to be a musician.

          Our inherited image of Nicolo Paganini as a 'demonic violinist' has never been analysed in depth.

          What really made him 'demonic'? This book investigates the legend of Paganini. Separating fact from fiction, it explains how the virtuoso violinist challenged the very notion of what it meant to be a musician.
          Mai Kawabata considers Paganini's performance innovations, violin techniques and musical ethos in the light of contemporary attitudes towards musicand the supernatural, gender, sexuality, violence, heroism and masculinity as well as conceptions of power.

          Paganini: the 'demonic' virtuoso.

        1. The book is written in three parts.
        2. Separating fact from fiction, this book explores how the legendary violinist challenged the very notion of what it meant to be a musician.
        3. Dr.
        4. 8vo.

          5. The many perceptions of Paganini as demonic - Faust, magician, devil, rake/libertine, Napoleon - were inter-related but not equivalent. A swirl of cultural factors coalesced in the performer to create that phenomenon of Romanticism, a larger-than-life Gothic villain.

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