With permission from masters such as Yehudi Menuhin, Pablo Sarasate, Joseph Joachim, Eugène Ysaÿe, and perhaps a more modern one—let’s say Jascha Heifetz or Itzhak Perlman—there is one musician who is ...

Nineteenth-century Italian violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini was rumored to have made a Faustian pact in order to play like the devil, though the flexibility that enabled him to cover three octaves ...

David Garrett’s musicianship is the sole virtuosic element of “The Devil’s Violinist,” a creaky drama in which the world-renowned German violinist assumes the role of real-life 19th-century Italian ...

More than 200 years ago, Niccolo Paganini led the celebrity lifestyle of drinking, debts and dalliances. Today, long after the violinist and composer’s death, one of his violins enjoys its own ...

COLUMBUS (WCMH) — You may remember the buzz about the 276-year-old Paganini violin–valued at $35 million–making its way from Genoa, Italy to Columbus last May to be played by the Columbus Symphony ...

A century before bluesman Robert Johnson’s mythical confrontation at a Mississippi crossroads, another prodigious musical talent was believed to have struck a deal with the devil: Niccolo Paganini, ...

The film, starring violinist David Garrett as the 19th century musician, will begin filming this summer in Vienna. By Gregg Kilday Freelance Contributor With principal photography scheduled to begin ...

The virtuoso violinist Niccolò Paganini was one of the world’s first performer idols. With his dramatic sense of fashion, fondness for gambling and women, and programs of pieces that would have left ...

Classical music star David Garrett plays famed violinist Niccolo Paganini in Bernard Rose's biopic By THR Staff The Devil's Violinist Still - H 2015 Exploiting the myth that the musician had sold his ...