PAGANINI IS ALIVE! Vol II With All The Soul

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From the midst of a Europe convulsed by the Napoleonic wars and from the heart of Classical Music itself, Ignacio Farías’s pen reveals a story full of passion and love; adventures and romances; intrigue, swordsmen and horses; successful concerts and countless romances; the saga of a unique character which with great talent, complemented by extraordinary physical qualities and an inspiration that emanates from the depths of his being, becomes the greatest violinist of all time: Niccolò Paganini.

Few things provide greater inspiration than the story of a great winner, like very few persons in history hold the title: “Greatest of all time”; Here, he is described as a common man, without devilish hoaxes or morbid approaches. Neither holy nor demon, Paganini was an introverted man, sensitive and extremely perceptive, of acute intelligence, complex personality, something intolerant, powerful magnetism and free spirit with which he passionately developed his talent.

From his very humble beginnings as a child prodigy, to his highest achievements in nineteenth-century Europe. While generalized curses describe him as a libertine or stingy, the disbelief of many envious attributes his talent to some diabolical pact even today. His success as an interpreter is unprecedented and is by far the first musical superstar in history.

Paganini implants delirium in its path and controversy which prevails. His sui generis way of playing the violin, starting with the way to tune-up his instrument, in Scordatura, led him to develop his own school of impossible performances that, to date, very few can play. Another way to play the violin.

Women used to scream and groan when they witnessed him on stage wishing to share his bed, for his reputation as a virtuoso on the violin ran in parallel with that of an extraordinary lover. But Paganini was not a simple womanizer, he was an inveterate romantic, constantly in love and wrapped in steamy romances as with Elisa Bonaparte, hence, his spectacular way of playing the violin and with it making women vibrate.

His slender figure became a symbol of the musical virtuoso. For our misfortune, most of his art did it live and never captured it on paper, there were no devices to capture his production, his spontaneity, his peculiar personality and, above all, his wonderful skills to make art on the fly before an audience; his magic.

Theaters were crowded with fans desperate to see him with the systematic appearance of “Paganinimanía.” Long before Rudy Vale, Rodolfo Valentino. Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, the Beatles, etc. Plenty of musicians follow him to date, playing his instruments with virtuosity or imitating his appearance. But talent and, beyond, genius, are intimate phenomena that do not occur in a pot or with diabolical pacts; they are rather a force of Nature which made him to become Paganini, the greatest violinist of all time.

This is the historical biographical novel of that pioneer, who had to live the great adventure traveling the roads in horse-drawn carriages, risking life in countless dangers; its multiple anecdotes and vicissitudes; loves and conflicts; his unknown facets such as a horse rider and swordsman; his fight against death, constantly threatening him with multiple diseases and dangers; his great triumph and his enormous follow-up of all Europe and, ultimately, of the entire world. His relationship with historical figures such as Elisa Bonaparte, Rossini, Metternich, Liszt, the Schumann, Brahms, Mendelsohn, Berlioz, Lord Byron and Goethe. All this, in correct historical chronology soaked with interesting data and anecdotes, guarantees the reader to get strengthened intellectually and spiritually.

Everyone had to see Paganini!