PAGANINI’S VIOLIN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9387, 5 March 1909, Page 3

PAGANINI’S VIOLIN.

At the Genoa Opera House recently a successful concert in aid of the earthquake sufferers was given by the well-known Polish violinist, Bronisland Huberman. The occasion was noteworthy from the fact that M. Huberman played his solos upon the violin used by the great Paganini and bequeathed by him, jat his death in 1840, to the people of Genoa (says i the Standard). Paganini’s dying instructions concerning this bequest were that he left the violin to his native place only on condition that no one should ever play upon it, and only by promising agreement to this condition did the people of Genoa obtain possession of the famous Italian’s treasure. The instrument was kept in a glass case in the town hall of Genoa, and was 10 jealously guarded that a special dispensation had to be made by a public notary act before the museum authorities could loan it to Mr Huberman. The event excited great interest throughuot the whole of Italy; it was, as one Italian expressed it, “as if the Great Paganini himself had spoken from his grave on behalf of his suffering countrymen.”