This student of Costa owned the "Cannone Guarnerius," which he bequeathed to the city of Genoa upon his death.
This student of Costa owned the "Cannone Guarnerius," which he bequeathed to the city of Genoa upon his death. The proprietor of a failed casino in Paris, he suffered from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which enabled him to perform certain roulades and double-stops. He commissioned Hector Berlioz's Harold in Italy and himself wrote frequent left-handed pizzicati, harmonics, and other tricky sequences in such works as his twenty-four caprices. For 10 points, jaw cancer, not a pact with the devil for his amazing skills, caused the strange appearance of what lauded violinist?
This student of Costa owned the "Cannone Guarnerius," which he bequeathed to the city of Genoa upon his death.
Niccolò {Paganini}