Niccolò Paganini

Niccolò Paganini's (1782-1840) wrote two installments (Op. 2 and Op. 3) of six sonatas each for violin and guitar between 1805 and 1809 while he lived in Florence with a guitar-playing noblewoman. Pag...

Niccolò Paganini's (1782-1840) lovely Sonata Concertata for Guitar and Violin, Op. 61, MS 2, written in 1803, is more reminiscent of Mozart or Haydn rather than the Paganini of his 24 Caprices or Viol...

Paganini’s compositions for a trio comprising strings and guitar form a small but significant corpus consisting of five works of differing length, formal structure and weight of scoring such as the Se...

In all movements, which are quite extended at times, the virtuoso violin is leading the ensemble whereas the other parts share the accompaniment. This composition requires an excellent violin player-...