... composed some music. The next year, Paganini was sent to study with a famous violin teacher named Alessandro Rolla. Rolla, upon hearing young Niccolo play, refused to take Niccolo as a student because he claimed he could teach Niccolo nothing. In 1795, he gave his own benefit concert to raise funds to cover traveling expenses and tuition fees. In September 1801, Paganini moved to Lucca. Between 1801 and 1805, Paganini disappeared from public sight. It is believed that he lived during these years in complete retirement in the chateau of a Tuscan lady, a guitarist, devoting his time to mastering the playing of the guitar and to composing music for that instrument. In 1805 he was appointed first violin of the republican orchestra, where he played with his older brother Carlo, also a violinist.2 That same year, he composed the famous 24 Caprices. At the time, many violinists did not ...

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