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Paganiniana

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 16, 2016
Entity authorityQ7124187 ↗
Source-derived summary

Paganiniana can refer to:

Paganiniana (Casella), an orchestral work by Alfredo Casella based on themes of Niccolò Paganini.

Paganiniana, a piece for violin consisting of variations by Nathan Milstein on themes of Paganini.

Other -ana works

For a list of other works in which a composer paid tribute to another composer by using their name in conjunction with the suffix -ana, see -ana.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 63-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Paganiniana, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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This entry incorporates text from “Paganiniana” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.