One Guy Was So Good At Violin That People Thought He Worshipped Satan

Ridiculous History

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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There's no denying Niccolò Paganini was a virtuoso -- in his heyday, this violinist was an international rock star, wowing crowds across Europe with his rollicking, frenetic performances. He was, in fact, so good that people were at a loss to explain exactly how he got so talented. As the years went on, people started claiming his musical gifts were the result of an infernal pact, and that Paganini had made a deal with the Devil.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous history is a production of I Heart Radio. The Welcome back to the show, Ridiculous Historians. Thank you as always so much for tuning in. Let's hear it for our super producer Mr Max Williams.
0:35.6	Hello.
0:37.6	Hello I have never worshiped thing. Yeah. To your knowledge. Right. Also you're missing out.
0:43.8	Yeah.
0:44.8	That's Gold Brown.
0:45.8	I'm Ben Bullin.
0:47.1	What's your position on Satan, Ben?
0:49.1	Which one?
0:50.0	There's Ha Satan.
0:51.8	There's also the idea of the light bringer. I feel like the concept of
0:57.6	Lucifer, the light bringer from the comic books. It has many aspects, the idea of the anti, oh, the antichrist is the son of Satan, right?
1:08.6	We did an episode years and years ago about the nature and origins of Satan for stuff they don't want you to know.
1:16.7	And we got a lot, we still have the YouTube video out.
1:19.3	We had a lot of discourse on that one because Noel the devil is on people's minds.
1:25.7	Well the devil is in the details, Ben. That's what they say.
1:29.3	Whatever happens to just good old American as apple pie Satan.
1:33.2	When did it have to get all complicated?
1:34.8	Yeah, what happened to the guy who just went down to Georgia and lost a violin contest?
1:40.2	You know, it is funny that you should say that, Ben, We are talking about making a deal with the devil for violins shop but not the Charlie Daniels Band version turns out there's a historical precedent for that tune.
1:53.0	Hey everyone, it's Jay Shetty and I am so excited to let you know that my latest podcast interview is with the one and only Tom Hanks.
2:03.0	I have left many wonderful atmosphere or a loving atmosphere
2:08.3	without thinking, oh, things were really wonderful back then.
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