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Eruptions: heavy metal appropriations of classical virtuosity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Robert Walser
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Abstract

We have now heard him, the strange wonder, whom the superstition of past ages, possessed by the delusion that such things could never be done without the help of the Evil One, would undoubtedly have condemned to the stake – we have heard him, and seen him too, which, of course, makes a part of the affair. Just look at the pale, slender youth in his clothes that signal the nonconformist; the long, sleek, drooping hair … those features so strongly stamped and full of meaning, in this respect reminding one of Paganini, who, indeed, has been his model of hitherto undreamt-of virtuosity and technical brilliance from the very first moment he heard him and was swept away.

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Popular Music , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , October 1992 , pp. 263 - 308
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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