Nicolo Paganini. Musical magician and Marfan mutant?
- 2 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 239 (1) , 40-42
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.239.1.40
Abstract
Nicolo Paganini of Genoa [Italy] (1782-1840), the greatest violin virtuoso of all time, owed his incomparable violin virtuosity to a fortuitous and fortunate coincidence of 3 factors: a soaring musical genius, a flair for the dramatic and ostentatious, and manual dexterity conferred by being born with the long fingers and hyperextensible joints of Marfan''s syndrome. Ordinarily an inborn connective tissue disorder is a calamity for the patient and a burden for society. In this particular instance Marfan''s syndrome bequeathed to posterity a legacy that will ennoble the human spirit for innumerable generations yet to come.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: