Paganini, Niccolò

Paganini lists the following compositions: "Preludio, e Rondò brillante", "Sonata sulla Preghiera di Pietro l'Eremita", "Variazioni sul tema Nel Cor più non mi sento", and "Variazioni sulla Canzonetta Napolitana detta il Carnevale di Venezia", all but the last to be played on the G string alone ("...il tutto Composto ed eseguita sopra la quarta Corda del G...")

1 page, small 4to (c.23 x 18.5cm), no place or date [probably London, 1831 or 1833], worn at folds, some paper restoration on verso

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RARE. This is probably a draft concert programme for one of Paganini’s concerts on his tours in England between 1831-1833. The second work, the “Sonata sull Preghiera di Pietro l’Eremita”, is better known as his “Introduction and Variations on “Da tuo stellato soglio’”, based on the aria from Rossini’s Mosè in Egitto. As operas with biblical subjects were banned in London, the work had been retitled. Paganini played both the Sonata sentimentale and the Variations on Paisiello’s `Nel cor più non mi sento’ in Winchester on 4 March 1831. The Carnevale di Venezia is well known but the first work listed is unidentified.