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Nicolo Paganini is born in Genoa, Italy. He is the 3rd of six children
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Paganini plays the violin at the court of Princess Elisa Baciocchi, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte in Lucca, Italy. It is siad that he had an affair with her.
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Paganini rarely practices the violin after his 30th birthday. It is unknown how he contimued to play
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Paganini's debut recital at age 32 in La Scala, Milan.
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Paganini publishes his 24 Caprices, 24 infamously difficlult pieces of music.
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After pawning his violin to pay a gambling debt, he is given a Guarnerius violin by a genoan merchant. Paganini uses this violin until his death 20 years later.
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Fathers a son with singer Anotnia Bianchi, Cyrus Alexander
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Paganini embarks on his first international tour, beginning in Vienna.
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Attempts to open a gambling casio=no in Paris, France. He is unsucessful.
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Paganini dies in Nice, France on May 27, 1840. He never married and did not live with his son.
