Information: - Niccolo (or Nicolo) Paganini (27 October 178227 May 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. His 24 Caprices for Solo Violin Op. 1 are among the best known of his compositions, and have served as an inspiration for many prominent composers. - The 24 Caprices for Solo Violin , were written in groups ( six + six + twelve ) by Niccolo Paganini between 1802 and 1817 . They are also designated as M.S. 25 in Maria Rosa Moretti and Anna Sorrento 's '' Catalogo tematico delle musiche di Niccolo Paganini '' , which was published in 1982 . The Caprices are in the form of etudes , with each number exploring different skills ( double stopped trills , extremely fast switching of positions and strings , etc. ) Ricordi first published them in 1820 , where they were grouped and numbered from 1 to 24 as Op.1 , together with 12 Sonatas for Violin and Guitar ( Op.2 and Op.3 ) and 6 Guitar Quartets ( Op.4 and Op.5 ) . When Paganini released his Caprices , he dedicated them '' alli artisti '' ( to all artists ) rather than to a specific person , also if a sort of dedication can be recognized in Paganini 's own score , where he annotated ( between 1832 and 1840 ) the following ' dedicatee ' for each Caprice ( possibly ready for a new printed edition ) : 1 . Henri Vieuxtemps ; 2 . Giuseppe Austri ; 3 . Ernesto Camillo Sivori ; 4 . Ole Bornemann Bull ; 5 . Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst ; 6 . Karol Jozef Lipiski ; 7 . Franz Liszt ; 8 . Delphin Alard ; 9 . Herrmann ; 10 . Theodor Haumann ; 11 . Sigismond Thalberg ; 12 . Dhuler ; 13 . Charles Philippe Lafont ; 14 . Jacques Pierre Rode ; 15 . Louis Spohr ; 16 . Rodolphe Kreutzer ; 17 . Alexandre Artot ; 18 . Antoine Bohrer ; 19 . Andreas Jakob Romberg ; 20 . Carlo Gignami ; 21 . Antonio Bazzini ; 22 . Luigi Alliani ; 23 . ( no name ) ; 24 . '' Nicolo Paganini , sepolto pur troppo '' ( to my self , regrettably buried ) . Ferdinand David 's first edition was published by Breitkopf and Hartel in 1854 . David , as editor , also issued an edition of '' Caprices '' with piano accompaniments by Robert Schumann . Another edition by Ferdinand David was issued in two books of 12 caprices each '' mit hinzugefugter Begleitung des Pianoforte von Ferdinand David '' ( with an additional piano accompaniment by Ferdinand David ) and published by... - An etude (a French word meaning "study") is an instrumental musical composition, usually short, of considerable difficulty, and designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular musical skill. The tradition of writing etudes emerged in the early 19th century with the rapidly growing popularity of the piano. Of the vast number of etudes from that era some are still used as teaching material (particularly pieces by Carl Czerny and Muzio Clementi), and a few, by major composers such as Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt and Claude Debussy, achieved a place in today's concert repertory. Etudes written in the 20th century include those related to traditional ones (Gyorgy Ligeti) and those that require wholly unorthodox technique (John Cage). - A virtuoso (from Italian "virtuoso" or , "virtuous", Late Latin "virtuosus", Latin "virtus", "virtue", "excellence", "skill", or "manliness") is an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular art or field such as fine arts, music, singing, playing a musical instrument, or composition. This word also refers to a person who has cultivated appreciation of artistic excellence, either as a connoisseur or collector. Virtuoso's plural form is either virtuosi or the Anglicisation, virtuosos, and the feminine forms are virtuosa and virtuose. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which '24 caprices for solo violin ' exhibits the relationship of 'instance of'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - 1 - composition - fine - may - musical composition - october - person - singing - skill - time - violin - virtue - word
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