Composed at Villa Senar
 two years before its composer's third symphony, it begins with a variation unusually played before the
 strings play its main theme.
A pizzicato variation in this piece represents the central character's triumph. Composed at Villa Senar
 two years before its composer's third symphony, it begins with a variation unusually played before the
 strings play its main theme. Sometimes considered its composer's fifth piano concerto, it introduces the
 Dies Irae in its seventh and eleventh variations, and inverts the main theme from A minor to D flat major in
 its andante cantabile 18th variation. Composed in 1934, it is based on another composer's twenty-fourth
 violin caprice. For 10 points, name this orchestral work by Sergei Rachmaninoff titled for a legendary
 Italian violinist.
A pizzicato variation in this piece represents the central character's triumph.
{Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini}