Like Franz Lizt, Paginini was also a masterfull performer who had a lot of tricks. For instance, he would purposefully saw into the strings with the bow while playing, breaking the strings and finishing the piece on one string. Both were rumoured to be posessed by the Devil. Franz Lizt ended up joining the monestary in his later years, and Paginini gave up practicing by the age of 30.

[Edited by chris mood on 09-12-2003 at 11:44 PM]