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Violinst Niccolo Paganini is often noted to have played along with the notion that he had sold his soul to the devil for his musical talent, often said to dress in all black and hauntingly break his strings intentionally across a performance. Is this factual, or has history embellished his antics?

by /u/Darksynth2 in /r/AskHistorians

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