Violin Concerto No. 1 (Paganini)
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Niccolò Paganini composed his first violin concerto in Italy, most probably in 1817-1818. The First concerto reveals that Paganini's technical wizardy already full-fledged; in particular, contemporary audiences must have gasped at the quite extended passages of double-stop thirds, chromatic in some places but also sometimes in harmonics. Furthermore, the concerto itself also shows how greatly Paganini's melodic style was influenced by the Italian opera of his time, notably Gioacchino Rossini.
Paganini's first violin concerto is in three movements:
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