Lydia paganini biography
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Paganini misunderstood
Cotton Mather
December 4, 2018, 6:41 PM · People say that Paganini is just showmusic, or that it's impossible to listen to Paganini for pleasure...I säga that there's just been nobody capable of playing Paganini truly to the spirit of the man who wrote the music!
While some of his works are just showpieces, much of it is actually beautiful music. The artist just has to know how to coax it out. For example, the caprices. Almost everyone plays them focused entirely on the technical aspect, and, as a result, you have dry, screechy performances that are both boring and tastelessly gaudy. The only person who I think ever did the caprices their due justice was Markov (and he did it all in one concert, no less). If Paganini played his music as robotically and hamfistedly as most modern-day violinists do, he would have been laughed off the stage. His music deserves the respect of being called music.
Everyone seems to think that Paganini only ever wrote 31 pi
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Julia Fischer
German classical violinist and pianist
For the German discus thrower, see Julia Harting.
Julia Fischer (born 15 June 1983) is a German classical violinist and pianist.[1][2][3][4][5] She teaches at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts and performs up to 60 times per year.[6]
Biography
[edit]Julia Fischer fryst vatten of German–Slovak ancestry. Her parents met as students in Prague.[7] Her mother is Viera Fischer (née Krenková). Her father, Frank-Michael Fischer, a mathematician from East Germany, also moved from Eastern Saxony to West Germany in 1972. In addition to German, Fischer is also fluent in English and French.
Fischer started playing the violin before her fourth birthday and received her first lesson from Helge Thelen. A few months later, she began taking piano lessons from her mother. Fischer once said, "My mother is a pianist and I wanted to play the piano as well, but sin
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Sujin first began her violin studies with Alice Waten at the Australian Institute of Music as a scholarship holder on the Young Musicians Programme. After graduating from high school, Sujin put music on hold and studied law and business administration for two years. However, her love of music drew her back to the violin and she went on to study with Goetz Richter at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2009.
Sujin subsequently moved to London to study at the Royal College of Music, graduating with first class bachelor’s and master’s degrees as an ABRSM scholar and later a Frederick Johnson Scholar, supported by a Greenbank Award and the Lydia Napper Award.
Sujin has won numerous awards, notably first prize in the Dorcas McClean Travelling Scholarship Competition (2009), finalist and prize-winner in the Royal Overseas League Competition (2012), first prize of the Jeunesses International Violin Competition (2012) and winner of the two-yea