Ruggiero Ricci obituary

American virtuoso violinist known for his devotion to Paganini's music and techniqueThe American violinist Ruggiero Ricci, who has died aged 94, was a virtuoso of the old school – combining technical mastery with exceptional skills as a musical communicator. For him, Niccolò Paganini was the gateway to achieving an unrivalled violinistic technique, and he practised that composer's 24 Caprices to maintain the skills demanded by them, and therefore, as he saw it, the skills required by the viol...

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