UNPUBLISHED WORK BY PAGANINI

Evening Star, Issue 22578, 20 February 1937, Page 6

UNPUBLISHED WORK BY PAGANINI

COBBLER’S DISCOVERY An unpublished violin concerto by Paganini was recently discovered by a cobbler in Parma. He bought for 20 lire a heap of old papers -lying in a garret, and on looking through them found a letter signed by Achilla Paganini, son of the violinist, attached to the manuscript of the concerto. Ha had the letter and the manuscript examined by a professor of music, and it was thus that the discovery , was made. , The authorities of the Parma Conservatoire, where the manuscript is now deposited, state that it is the fourth concerto in D minor, which was given with great success by Paganini himself on the night of March 25, 1831, at the Paris Opera The manuscript cow sists of 91 pages and it is dated Paris, 1831. - . It is known 'that Paganini was reluctant to have his compositions published. After his death his son Achilla had the first and second concertos pub : lished. but the concertos of Paganini are understood to be nine in number. Four of them only are mentioned m the letters of the maestro. Of the. remaining five, two were published and three are still unpublished. That now discovered is one of these three.