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The Devil's Violinist is a 2013 film written and directed by Bernard Rose. It is based on the life story of the 19th-century Italian violinist and composer Niccolò Paganini. The film had its US premiere on 10 March 2014 at the Miami International Film Festival.
Paganini in 1836 by John Whittle. Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (/ p æ ɡ ə ˈ n iː n i, p ɑː ɡ ə-/; Italian: [ni(k)koˈlɔ ppaɡaˈniːni] ⓘ; 27 October 1782 – 27 May 1840) was an Italian violinist and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique.
Caprice No. 13, nicknamed Devil's Laughter or Devil's Chuckle, [1] is one of Niccolò Paganini's renowned 24 Caprices for Solo Violin. It is the only one of the suite that is in the key of B-flat major. [2] This solo violin piece starts out with scale-like double-stopped passages at a moderate speed.
The Devil (Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Iblis) appears frequently as a character in literature and other media. In Abrahamic religions , the figure of the Devil or Satan personifies evil. [ 1 ] Depictions of the devil first became prominent in Christianity in the 6th century when the Council of Constantinople officially recognized Satan as ...
The development of Paganini Horror was based on the premise that the film Paganini, a pet project of actor Klaus Kinski, was going to be a great success. [1] Cozzi came up with the title for the film and producer Ugo Valenti hired Enzo Sciotti to illustrate a poster for the film, after which a script began to be developed. [1]
The folklore of the "Devil's violin", classically exemplified by a similar story told of Niccolò Paganini, is widespread; it is an instance of the deal with the devil. A modern variant is the country song The Devil Went Down to Georgia; the PBS segment on violin in its series "Art" was titled "Art of violin: the devil's instrument".
Alexander Rosenblatt – Variations on Theme of Paganini, for solo piano (1988) Poul Ruders – Paganini Variations: Guitar Concerto No. 2 (1999–2000), 22 variations for guitar and orchestra; Fazıl Say – Paganini Jazz in Say Plays Say, for solo piano (1988) Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Concerto Nicolò, for piano left hand and orchestra (2003)
In 1886, the tale was translated as The Old Man and the Devils [4] by James Curtis Hepburn. [5] [a]Hepburn translated the oni as "devils" where a more modern editions might give "demons" or "ogres", but it was commonplace during this time period to replace native Japanese concepts with equivalent Christian ones in these translated stories.