What made Paganini so exceptionally great was the portentous
development, the strength and independence, of the emotional
fountain within. The whole of life was to him nothing but so
many successions of psychological heat and cold. Incidents
immediately became clothed with a psychic atmosphere--perhaps
the life of emotion was never so completely realized in itself,
and for itself, as in the soul-isolation of Paganini. What
the tempest had told him his violin would proclaim; what the
summer night had whispered was stereotyped in his soul, and the
midnight song of birds came forth from the Cremona depths at his
bidding.--H. R. HAWEIS, “My Musical Memories.”
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See FEELINGS A FOUNTAIN.
=Employe, Devoted=--See SERVICE, INTERESTED.