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Concert of Nicolò Paganini, 6 July 1832

Something of the same balance shown by Kiesewetter's programme turns up in a concert given by Nicolò Paganini at Covent Garden in 1832:

Programme 5

Concert of Nicolò Paganini, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 6 July 1832

Facsimile of the Handbill for Paganini's concert at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

Here we have two songs in British idioms done in each half, in addition to only one excerpt from Italian opera and the obligatory opening works from the Austro-German classical style. Paganini seems to have aimed his programmes in this instance at a public broader than the upper élites that favoured Italian opera so strongly when they were in London.

Colour lithograph of Paganini playing in a London Concert in 1831

Daniel Maclise (1806–1870), Sigr. Paganini (London, William Spooner, 1831)

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