Paganini wrote his Violin Concerto No 4 in D minor in December 1829 and arranged it for instruments in the spring of 1830. The first public performance took place on 26 April 1830 in Frankfurt. He subsequently played it in several concerts during his tour through West Germany , amang others in Kassel under the leadership of the famous violinist Ludwig Spohr, as well as in Paris, London and other cities in England , Scotland and Ireland. In the course of time he used it with increasing rarity in the programme. The reason was his rapidly deteriorating health, which forced him to limit himself to less demanding performance pieces.
To be read on the second movement of the concerto in the Dresden evening newspaper of 7 August 1830 : " The adagio formed a sonorous love novel in sound that tells those who know how to unravel such things of interchanging lament of seperated love , the vow of faithfulness, the encouragement of endurance , the decision for the most daring rescue, flight, blissful unification, the appearance of enraged pursuers , a fathers anger, curse, murder, death of a loving heart and the uniting grave, it is all told by the notes to those who are able to decipher it ... "

The " Suonata Varsavia " for violin and orchestra was performed for the first time on 24 May 1829 on the occasion of the coronation of Czar Nikolaus I to King of Poland. Paganini who liked to take musical themes of the country in which he was then playing for his compositions  - one remembers the variations of the Austrian national anthem " Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser ", composed in Vienna , or the variations for " St. Patrick's Day" written for Ireland  - the Suonata Varsavia  uses a mazurka by the Polish composer  Józef Elsner ( 1769 - 1854 ) who was born in Silesia , and as the director of the vocal and declamation school ( forerunner of the Warsaw Conservatory ) was also Frédéric Chopin's teacher. The  " Tema polacco " ( Polish theme ) following an introduction after a recitative and a cadence, which in turn is followed by seven variations. The Suonata ends with a presto-stretto finale. Only the handwritten solo part exists of the suonata , and there is version for violin and piano by Giusto Dacci in manuscript form from the second half of the 19th century. Pietro Sparda wrote the orchestral score for it in 1994.

The concert piece after Niccoló Paganini's " Moto perpetuo op 11 " , which bears the subtitle  " Mr.Paganini's string gymnastics are still relevant ", was written by Ernst Ludwig Leitner in 1995 initially for violin and piano, the version for violin and orchestra followed 2005. The composer's intention  was to write from Paganini's musical material " Moto perpetuo" a very quick piece  compromising 3040 sixteenth notes in series, which form a musical point of view slowly developed into a theme. The first part begins with almost original Paganini, develops into a theme and highpoint and then returns retrograde to Paganini, to then treat the initially developed theme in a sort of a concludinjg fugue.

                                                                                                                         Thomas Albertus Irnberger
                                                                                                                                                                                                       translated by Lawrence Brazier