The 24 Caprices by
Niccoló Paganini were written between 1802 and 1817 for Violin solo. The URTEXT
version presented for Viola solo, was adapted, edited, and transcripted by
Roisber Narváez, starting from the manuscript and the first editions printed
when the composer was still alive. Transposing in an interval of a perfect 5th descended was essential for
the adaptation of the viola, for that reason, C-clef prevail the most part of the time as possible to facilitate
the study and reading of the player, however, those passages or high register
excerpts that are not in conjunct motion were written in G-clef, as long as the height of the notes surpasses the B5, sections that moves in conjunct
motion in an ascending movement that reaches or surpasses the C5 are also in G-clef. The octave (8ve)
superior line in C-clef has been
exclude, and in its place, the notes were written in their real height register
in G-key in order to provide better comfort.
Also, some suggestions and possible solutions of the editor were placed in
parenthesis, as well as: ligature, articulations and accidental notes. One of
the aspects of this edition is that the fractionals-stem bars has been placed
in a straight horizontal pattern to avoid overload of visual noise. In case
of caprice number 6, it has remained the original writing of the autograph. In
spite of being an Urtext unfingered edition, the only ones that can be found
are the proper ones of the composer and it offers and spacious design that
allows to add fingerings and personal bowings.
Roisber Narvaez.