Diabolus in Musica, A Story of Niccolo Paganini

I’m publishing DIABOLUS IN MUSICA, A STORY OF NICCOLO PAGANINI, in screenplay format rather than as a novel. Why? There are many answers to this. The first – Why Paganini? – resulted from when, at the age 17, I drove my favourite Uncle Fred to hear Yehudi Menuhin, the finest violinist of the 20th century, give a Sunday evening recital at the International Music Festival at Llangollen, North Wales. Menuhin was brilliant, as always, that night, we were both enthralled, but later, driving back home, when I told Fred how gripped I’d been, he agreed, only to add, “But how I wish I could have heard Paganini play.” Never having heard ...Read more