This documentary is just delightful! Great insights into the legend "Paganini".
Superbly presented by Christopher Nupen & brilliantly performed by Gidon Kremer! Thanks for the post. Jamshed Delvadavala from Mumbai.
paganini was suffering from congenital syphilis. It is the consequences of this illness that in many ways helped him in his career, i.e. his physique - his long fingers, and his mental state e.g. delusions of grandeur - causing him to produce exceptional music for the violin and with his exceptional physique produced extraordinary technique not seen before. So it is obvious that to be "creative" you need to be "abnormal". But nowadays his secrets have been uncovered and that is good for the violin world.
Why couldn't they comprehend that it was something beyond the norm. Yet was magnificent to the ear...Something new, that they couldn't yet understand at the time. Perhaps playful, yet completely and undoubtedly something magnificent to the ear. I believe it's because the could not yet understand how his music was a bit before it's time....Perhaps a jealousy of those who hadn't an ear for his playing, but eventually caught on to be some of the most magnificent music, ever heard at it's time.....
Quite telling the point of view of Zelter. It encapsulates the sick view of jealousy that Paganini may have aroused, not only on musicians, but also at the entire artistic self-esteem of entire nations at his time: his art embodied what no one else dreamed of before (and possibly after).
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