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Condemnation of Paganini

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This is a book about a genius violinist whose frightening appearance and ability to extract sounds of unearthly beauty "from rough veins" brought the public into ecstasy and confusion. And the Catholic Church into indignation. This is a novel about an incredibly gifted and cruelly wounded soul that lived in a lopsided, sickly body and throughout its entire earthly existence tried in vain to break through humiliation, vindictiveness and slander to love and freedom. This is a story about a society that too easily and carelessly uses its power both to drag through the mud and to elevate to Olympus.

Niccolo Paganini was not the devil or the criminal that the priests tried to make him out to be. He was not an angel either - sarcastic, temperamental, unpredictable. But the magical charm of his playing, skill and music were so beyond human capabilities that people refused to see him as just a virtuoso violinist. This gave rise to many legends, gossip and fiction, some of which still live on.

Anatoly Vinogradov's novel "The Condemnation of Paganini" is based on documentary materials about the life of the great violinist and offers not only an artistic biography of the maestro, but also a broad panorama of European life at the beginning of the 19th century.
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