Classical Music and History
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Taken from my collection of old sheet music. These little pieces of paper have such a history.
"If we look at his full list of works, we can notice that Paganini actually wrote a lot of compositions comprising the guitar. Among the 134 opuses listed in Moretti and Sorrento’s catalog (MS numbering from Catalogo tematico delle musiche di Niccolò Paganini, Genoa, 1982) 77 of them include the guitar, totalizing more than 200 pieces for solo guitar, mandolin and guitar, violin and guitar, and guitar and strings. Paganini’s passion for the guitar was genuine besides his works, as shown for instance by his Jean-Nicolas Grobert guitar given to his friend, famous French composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) after Paganini passed away. Berlioz played the guitar too – “The guitar is a small orchestra” he wrote in his famous book Traité d’instrumentation et d’orchestration – and admired Paganini very much."