More than 200 years ago, Niccolo Paganini led the celebrity lifestyle of drinking, debts and dalliances. Today, long after the violinist and composer’s death, one of his violins enjoys its own ...

Back in the late 1820s, Paganini performed in Prague several times and, we read, the audiences got smaller and smaller – it definitely was not a case of Paganini-mania, more of the Czech public being ...

The world’s most famous violin is coming to town this weekend, and all Columbus gets to see and hear it. That violin is the priceless 18th-century Guarnerius del Gesù violin nicknamed “Il Cannone” – ...

The Houston Symphony opens the second half of the 19-20 season with Grammy Award-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich in the all-Italian program, Paganini + "Pines of Rome" at 8 p.m. Jan. 9 and 11 and ...

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 ...

Next to the late great Nicolò Paganini, the most famous violinist of the 19th Century was a fantastic Norwegian named Ole Bull. Ole (rhymes with Café au lait) took scarcely a violin lesson in his life ...

Joanna Frankel has feelings of both excitement and a little anxiety when it comes to playing a famous violin named Il Cannone in a concert Wednesday, May 15, with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. The ...