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Nicolo Paganini. Musical magician and Marfan mutant?

M R Schoenfeld.   

Abstract

The thesis is advanced that Nicolo Paganini of Genoa (1782 to 1840), the greatest violin virtuoso of all time, owed his incomparable violin virtuosity to a fortuitous and fortunate coincidence of three 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, however, Marfan's syndrome bequeathed to posterity a legacy that will ennoble the human spirit for innumerable generations yet to come.

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Year:  1978        PMID: 336919     DOI: 10.1001/jama.239.1.40

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  JAMA        ISSN: 0098-7484            Impact factor:   56.272


  3 in total

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Journal:  Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc       Date:  1993

Review 2.  Syphilis in composers and musicians--Mozart, Beethoven, Paganini, Schubert, Schumann, Smetana.

Authors:  C Franzen
Journal:  Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis       Date:  2008-07-01       Impact factor: 3.267

3.  The past: a gallery of arthritics.

Authors:  T Appelboom
Journal:  Clin Rheumatol       Date:  1989-12       Impact factor: 2.980

  3 in total

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