(This is an article about Sivori the violinist and composer, and not Omar Sivori the Argentinian footballer.)
Ernesto Camillo Sivori, (1815 - 1894) was an Italian virtuoso violinist and composor.
Born in Genoa, he was the only pupil of Paganini. Like Paganini, Sivori's playing was renown for its thrilling pyrotechnic spectacle.
He collaborated with composers of his day, inlcuding Franz List. He played the first performance of L. Cherubini's "Requiem" in E minor.
He owned many valuable instruments, including violins by Amati, Stradivari, Bergonzi, and Jean Baptiste Vuillaume. His favourite was the Vuillaume violin, which he received from Paganini. It was an impeccably close copy of Paganini's famous CannoneGuarnerius.
Sivori was known to adapt many peculiar pieces such that he could play them, and many of these pieces, once thought absurd, have now become quite popular. The best example of this is Giovanni Bottesini's Gran Duo Concertante, which was a double concerto originally written for two double basses, alternating the melody. Sivori changed it from two double basses to a violin and a double bass, alternating parts and sometimes playing together in the same octave.
Sivori became one of the main virtuosi of his century, keeping on the nineteenth-century fashioned tradition that highlighted the instrumental bravura as one of the most important issues of the XIX century musical salon.
Sivori had a gathering role, since Liszt and Wagner deemed him as a protagonist no to be undervalued.
Ernesto CamilloSivori, (October 25, 1815 - February 18, 1894) was an Italian virtuoso violinist and composer.
Sivori was known to adapt many peculiar pieces such that he could play them, and many of these pieces, once thought absurd, have now become quite popular.
Sivori changed it from two double basses to a violin and a double bass, alternating parts and sometimes playing together in the same octave.
Feeds |
Contact