Camillo Sivori as Paganini’s pupil
From Ingolf Turban’s liner notes:
“…So were there any sort of lessons given in the years between 1822 and 1824? Not really, as Camillo Sivori later remembered, describing Paganini as the “worst teacher the world has ever seen”. Rude language, sarcasm and mockery were on the agenda for Sivori, after Paganini had asked the boy to sight-read his own untidy composition which Sivori naturally failed to accomplish. Paganini “grabbed the violin like a lion would grab a lamb and played the etude again without a glance at the sheet music.”
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