The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-30
PAGANINI's PRIDE.
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 Seventy years or so ago, in box in the Theatre of Sant' Angostina, in Genoa, woman listened as Paganini, the violinist, performed one of his marvellous, weird improvisations. She became ill after he had finished, and hurriedly left the theatre. Within half an hour she bore a child, and, as if the spell of the mysterious player
 nd his music had been cast upon the m;oung life about to be, that child be- stame Camille Sivori, favorite pupil of w'aganini, the famous master of the briolin. Fifty years ago he completed reis studies in musical composition
 nder Giovanni Serra, and began his professional career, and now he cele- ourates his jubilee, and to crown his lo}iumph the city of Genoa permits
 i'm to use on that occasion its price, w.ss treasure, the violin of Paganini, thnder whose strains he was SO nearly caorn.
 a, It is told as legend that the violin pFas presented to Paganini about or coon before 1904 by a Frenchman sramed Livron. Paganini was about tfo perform in Leghorn, and he had tIambled away all his money and ewels and even the violin he had ex- Pected to use. He applied to Livron, swho was we'll known locally as an itmateur, and obtained the loan of the sine Guarnerius which that gentleman twas known to possess. The amateur sheard Paganini play upon the instru- ment, and then refused to take it back, Il saying that no other hands should ever profane the strings touched by such master. The gift was not so great then, for the instrument was not valued at more than than S100 or $50, being new and it's maker far less celebrated than he has since become.
 The violin cured Paganini of gam bling, it is said, for once when he had but six dollars left, and needed money to pay debt incurred at the gaming table the night before, certain noble man offered to buy the violin for $400. Paganini was sorely tempted and nearly yielded, but first determined to try his luck again with the little money he had left. He won, and lett the table with enough to meet his inn mediate necessities. The thought that gambling had so nearly led him to sac- rifice his darling violin gave him permanent distaste for gaming that prevented him from ever running into a similar danger again.
 Paganini purchased many other violins, particularly several Strada- vari, and was continually buying and selling fine instruments, but nothing could induce him to part with his "Joseph del Jesu." He kept it con- stantly with him, and watched it as father might watch delicate child. Once it was sick, appearing suddenly to lose all it's quality, and he took it to Vuillame, known as the most fa- nous repairer of fiddles in Europe. The expert said that it must be taken apart. Paganini insisted that it must not go out of his sight, and compelled the work to be done in his own apart ments. Vuillame told afterward that Paganini watched him, as he put in the knife and pried the delicate wood apart, and started at every fresh thrust as though the knife were going into his own body. Afterward Vuil- lame had to take it to his shop to put 1t together. When the work was done Paganini gave him gold box set with precious stones, which Paganini said was exactly the same as one he had to give to his physician, and that the doctor of his body and the doctor of his violin were entitled to equal consideration. The box was worth several hundred dollars, probably ten times as much as the original maker received for the violin when it was new.
 While the violin was in his shop Vuillame made measurements of it's exact dimensions down to the very unevenness of the varnish, and from these he subsequently, made another violin that was the exact duplicate of Paganini's, but when the latter heard of it he insisted that it should be sold to him, and so no one ever had vio- lin like that of Paganini until, dying, Paganini bequeathed the copy to Ca millo Sivori, who has ever since played upon it. The original violin Paganini left to his native city, Genoa, to be kept forever in remembrance of him. It is kept with +scrupulous care, and only the most famous artists are or have ever been allowed to touch it. Once before the honor has been ac- corded to Sivori. This time Leandro Campanati, the director of the Mi lanese Quartette, shares the honor with Sivori.
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