Talk:Niccolò Paganini

message: This wiki article has been propagating a common misspelling of Paganini's first name.  While this may have become a "conventionally predominant spelling," it is actually a conventionally predominant misspelling.  Both spellings are very common.  However, the more legitimate sources have his name spelled with only one c, as is seen on his tomb on this very page.  A copy of his signature can be seen by visiting https://www.schubertiademusic.com/lots/index/page:6/catalog:12  I have seen his signature on other material as well, and it is always with only one c. I believe he should have know how to spell his own name.  I really don't think it is proper for wikipedia to continue to spell the name incorrectly just because it is spelled incorrectly in other places. Lost Josephine Minor (talk) 03:20, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Kennedy, Michael (2006), The Oxford Dictionary of Music, gives 'Niccolò', but what about Grove? Does anyone have access? --Kleinzach 08:11, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking on the web, I see that both spellings are just about equally common. One source suggests that Paganini himself alternated between them, which would certainly explain the confusion. --Kleinzach 10:38, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There are two entries in Oxford Music Online for "Paganini, Nicolò" (by Edward Neill, Grove Music Online; by Roger Parker, Oxford Companion to Music) and one for "Paganini, Niccolò" (by Michael Kennedy, The Oxford Dictionary of Music).Searching Oxford Music Online for "Nicolò Paganini" gives 15 results, searching for "Niccolò Paganini" gives 3. None of the three biographies mention the other spelling, although the entry by Neill (who uses one "c") gives a bibliographic entry: "G.C. Conestabile: Vita di Niccolò Paganini (Perugia, 1851, rev. 2/1936 by F. Mompellio)". Most of the other-language Wikipedias use "Niccolò". The Italian mentions "Nicolò", the Hungarian, a Featured Article, doesn't. I think a footnote will do. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 12:17, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

text: PS: Google counts in the English Wikipedia 26 results for  "Nicolo Paganini" site:en.wikipedia.org</span> and 363 for  "Niccolo Paganini" site:en.wikipedia.org</span> -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 12:26, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. An explanatory footnote would be a good idea. --Kleinzach 07:55, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The current New Grove uses Nicolò.  Slonimsky's Baker's Biographical Dictionary uses Niccolò. Both spellings are in common use.  I agree with the explanatory footnote idea. Antandrus  (talk) 02:16, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Why don't people just look up how his name is spelled on his grave.  It's only one c!  Here is the link  If I were Paganini, I would not be pleased if people three centuries later spell my name with an extra "c".  --93.223.206.233 (talk) 14:26, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: According to  this site he used both versions of his name. --Kleinzach 06:54, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The site is a music publisher.  Not WP:RS  Wouldn't you say the writing on the tombstone is the final word? Lost Josephine Minor (talk) 05:27, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Absolutely not.  By definition, Paganini did not carve his own gravestone.  Someone else did.  People make mistakes.  The number of factual mistakes on gravestones are legion - we probably should have a whole article on them.  Nor are gravestones necessarily correct about dates of birth etc.  Nor are subjects themselves necessarily reliable sources about when they were born - they may have been there but they were hardly in a position to be the horses's mouth about the date.  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 05:56, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Richard Taruskin uses the spelling Niccolò in The Oxford History of Western Music, so most sources point towards 2 c's, though I agree that an explanatory footnoted should be included. --Ellise19 (talk) 17:24, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling of Nicolo Paganini's name 

message: The article about Paganini states Genoa is in Italy : 
Niccolò Paganini was born in Genoa, Italy
The French invaded northern Italy in March 1796, and Genoa was not spared. The Paganinis sought refuge in their country
According to this very wikipedia, Genoa was an independant state from 1005 to 1797 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Genoa
89.86.131.99 (talk) 22:44, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Not was only Genova independent. Italy itself didn't exist until the middle of the 19th century. --2.245.159.17 (talk) 00:34, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italy or Republic of Genoa ?  

message: The recent addition of video files for all 24 Caprices made this biography quite unbalanced. For a start, the length of the text of the article wasn't sufficient to accommodate all the thumbnails; the article's length was doubled with only white space at the left and thumbnails, starting at No. 9, running all by themselves down the right-hand side. This is seriously bad lay-out. I removed all of them and suggest they may better be shown at the 24 caprices' article. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 13:05, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: All those embedded video thumbnails make for seriously bad layout, both here and at 24 Caprices for Solo Violin (Paganini). I've removed them again from this article; I am willing to live with the layout issues at the article on the caprices themselves, hoping that someone finds a way to collapse the thumbnails. __Just plain Bill (talk) 01:55, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Video files

message: The meta information for the watercolor lists the author as unknown. But a look at the actual picture shows it to be signed and dated quite legibly: A. Wechsler, 1920.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.58.36.36 (talk) 18:31, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Watercolor of Paganini on His Deathbed 

message: "baptized at San Bartolomeo's"? Since there is no parish church "San Bartolomeo" in Palermo, this is a mistake and should be corrected.--178.191.69.170 (talk) 08:42, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Achille Paganini's baptism 

message: There is a photograph of Niccolò Paganini floating around the internet (and various books). Since Paganini died in 1840, it is extremely unlikely that he was photographed and it is believed that this photograph was actually forged in the 1890s. Just posting this as a heads up in case someone decides to add it here. Kaldari (talk) 23:21, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forged photograph 

message: For a while now There has been some commented-out text about Paganini's concert schedule in the article. The commenting was messed up in this edit by InternetArchiveBot and the text was subsequently removed altogether by 72.23.91.190. I think it's probably better to remove the text, but it also seemed like it was worth leaving a note here. I've filed a bug regarding InternetArchiveBot as T249420. Graham87 15:26, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed text about concert schedule 

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message: The section Final years, death, and burial talks about him being denied a religious burial due in part to "his widely rumored association with the devil" - but that specific fact isn't immediately supported by a footnoted ref. What source supports this claim (not that there was a deal, but that there was a "widely rumored association")? I ask because I'm working to improve Crossroads (1986 film), which features a similar deal and quotes Paganini's 5th caprice (so it's certainly apt - if there's an RS). -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 22:04, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deal with the devil - specific ref? 

message: — Assignment last updated by Jmares3218 (talk) 03:41, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: 19th Century Concert Life