As Sherlock Holmes once observed, there's nothing new under the sun. We may live in the internet age but aspects of life online have certainly been around before. Take music piracy, for instance.

'Il Cannone' was Italian composer and violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini's favourite The world's most famous violin, "Il Cannone", made in 1743 and played by the great virtuoso Niccolo Paganini, being ...

For director Bernard Rose, making a film about 19th Italian violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini would be pointless without a master violinist to play the part. The producers of “The Devil’s Violinist” ...

Scientists have carried out X-ray studies on the iconic violin that was crafted in 1743 (courtesy: ESRF/Pierre Jayet) An almost 300-year-old violin that was played by the great virtuoso Niccolò ...

Bernard Rose, who wrote and directed the steamy 1994 Beethoven biography “Immortal Beloved,” wrote and directed this even steamier portrait of the bad-boy violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini, played by ...

Nineteenth-century Italian violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini was rumored to have made a Faustian pact in order to play like the devil, though the flexibility that enabled him to cover three octaves ...

In 2015, a delegation of city leaders from Columbus, Ohio, went to Italy's Genoa, where they heard a performance of the famed Paganini violin. The contingent spent the next four years working to ...

A century before bluesman Robert Johnson’s mythical confrontation at a Mississippi crossroads, another prodigious musical talent was believed to have struck a deal with the devil: Niccolo Paganini, ...

GRENOBLE, France — French experts fired X-rays at a 18th-century violin worth millions this weekend hoping to discover the secret of its magical sound, they said on Monday. The violin, dubbed “Il ...