Respighi was an Italian violinist, composer, and musicologist, best known for his three orchestral tone poems-Fountains of Rome (1916), Pines of Rome (1924), and Roman Festivals (1928).

For director Bernard Rose, making a film about 19th Italian violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini would be pointless without a master violinist to play the part. The producers of “The Devil’s ...

Charlotte Symphony's celebration of Italy with music by Berio, Berlioz, Paganini, and Mendelssohn's ITALIAN SYMPHONY actually peaked with Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1, thanks to the ...

Niccolo Paganini News from United Press International.Wiki Niccolò Paganini (27 October 1782 – 27 May 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was one of the most ...

David Garrett’s musicianship is the sole virtuosic element of “The Devil’s Violinist,” a creaky drama in which the world-renowned German violinist assumes the role of real-life 19th-century Italian ...

Alternately greedy and generous, Paganini made and spent a deal of money, slept in many an illicit bed, achieved the patronage of Napoleon’s sister Elisa (Princess of Lucca and Piombo).

In 2015, a delegation of city leaders from Columbus, Ohio, went to Italy's Genoa, where they heard a performance of the famed Paganini violin. The contingent spent the next four years working to ...

The hour wraps up with a full bodied performance of music by Sergei Rachmaninoff that's based on music written by Italian composer and violinist Nicolo Paganini ...