GRENOBLE, France — French experts fired X-rays at a 18th-century violin worth millions this weekend hoping to discover the secret of its magical sound, they said on Monday. The violin, dubbed “Il ...

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 Moscow-based Violin Art Foundation bought the rare violin – the first from Paganini’s legendary collection to come up for auction – for 568,000 pounds ($1.01 million) on Tuesday, auctioneers ...

Some thought he was a metaphorical musical God, others thought he literally got his virtuosity from a deal with the Devil. But what was the real story behind Niccolò Paganini’s genius? Born on 27 ...

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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 ...

For Regina Carter, it was the chance of a lifetime. Carter, a classically trained jazz violinist, is one of the few people in the world who have been allowed to play a closely guarded violin ...

French experts fired X-rays at a 18th-century violin worth millions this weekend hoping to discover the secret of its magical sound, they said recently. The violin, dubbed "Il Cannone" (the cannon) ...

The violin, dubbed "Il Cannone" (the cannon) because of its powerful sound, was Italian composer and violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini's favourite. The maestro from the Italian city of Genoa played it ...

'Il Cannone' was Italian composer and violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini's favourite The world's most famous violin, "Il Cannone", made in 1743 and played by the great virtuoso Niccolo Paganini, being ...