Diabolus in Musica
A Story of Niccolo Paganini
Description:... To his adoring public his violin playing was divine; to Holy Church he was of The Devil.
Written and published as a screenplay, Diabolus in Musica tells the story of Niccolo Paganini, the world's first "music idol" and greatest ever violinist.
After 40 years filling theatres across Europe, dies in Nice, Southern France, at the age of 58, his parish priest and embittered enemy, Romolo Caferelli, refuses him a burial and Requiem Mass, claiming that his mesmeric music came from a Faustian pact he made with The Devil, not his own genius.
Contested by Paganini's illegitimate son, honouring a promise demanded of him by his father when Achille was five years old, the story of Paganini's life is told through a Papal Inquiry.
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