Niccolò Paganini
Niccolò Paganini was born in Genoa on October 27, 1782, the third of six children. He began on the mandolin at five and switched to the violin at seven, and he studied with local violinists such as Giacomo Costa and later with Alessandro Rolla. He toured northern Italy as a teenager, became first violinist for the Republic of Lucca in 1801 and served the court of Elisa Bonaparte from 1805. From 1809 he toured again, and he won fame across Europe, including a tour in 1828 that started in Vienna and later visits to Paris and Britain. He ended his concert career in 1834. He also wrote six violin concertos and many guitar works, but his best known works are the 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1.
His showmanship, long reach and extravagant, gambling lifestyle fed rumors that he had a link to the devil. He had chronic illnesses, and Marfan syndrome and Ehlers–Danlos syndrome have been proposed as explanations, though there is no definite proof. He died in Nice on May 27, 1840, at the age of 57. The Church refused him a Catholic burial in Genova, and his body was moved there only after a four-year appeal and was not buried there. It was finally buried in Parma in 1876 and reinterred there in 1896. As a result, his music outlived the rumors, and Liszt, Schumann, Brahms and Rachmaninoff all wrote works based on it, especially on the 24th Caprice.
Note
The stamp at the end of the first row on this album page is meant to commemorate the celebated violinist, Niccolò Paganini. And yet they chose a drab design for this stamp. The post office is hardly trying at this stage.
Contains 11 spots: own 11 – 11 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details
The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.
spot |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
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✓ |
1585 |
300₤ (jan 1982) |
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✓ |
1587 |
300₤ (mar 1982) |
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✓ |
1586 |
900₤ (feb 1982) |
Italian Aircraft
✓ |
1590 |
300₤ (mar 1982) |
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✓ |
1591 |
300₤ (mar 1982) |
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✓ |
1588 |
300₤ (mar 1982) |
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✓ |
1589 |
300₤ (mar 1982) |
Flowers & Blossoms
✓ |
1594 |
300₤ (apr 1982) |
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✓ |
1593 |
300₤ (apr 1982) |
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✓ |
1595 |
300₤ (apr 1982) |
Other
✓ |
1592 |
120₤ (mar 1982) |
Footnotes
Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
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