This work shows how the violinist N. Paganini became a fictional character for nineteenth-century European journalism and literature, and analyses the influence of this myth on the representation of musicians in new musicals of the era, and the Romantic virtuoso.
CLIL theme: 4028 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes de littérature comparée