Edizione critica di Italo Vescovo-Paganini’s Sonata a violino solo (M.S. 6) composed during his Lucca period (1805-1809) forms part of a series of music written for solo violin that has failed to attract the attention of both performers and scholars interested in Genoa’sfamous violinist. This work – published several times in the nineteenth century (especially outside Italy with various titles: Duetto per un violino solo Duo Merveille Meraviglia di Paganini word etc.) – is divided into twomovements (Adagio – Allegro molto). Paganini used a two-staff system of musical notation to produce two distinct levels of sound as well as graphically: pizzicato on the lower line arco on the upper. It is a short pleasing piece containing all the typical characteristics one expects from Paganini: melody and instrumental virtuosity.This critical edition based on the autograph kept at the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome as part of a collection of the most important editions from the 1800s and 1900s is intended to provide scholars and performers a philologically reliable textthat revives the original version.
