Category:Violins in macabre art

Devil with violin in literature, music, etc (source):

• Tartini's "Sonata del Diavolo"
• Gérard de Nerval. "La Sonate du Diable" (1830) - virginal
• Satan appears as fiddler in the poem "Der Teufel mit der Geige," which has been ascribed to the Swiss anti-Papist Pamphilus Gengenbach of the sixteenth century
• In Lenau's "Faust" (1836) Mephistopheles takes the violin
• Opera "Un Violon du Diable" was played in Paris in 1849
• The Devil's Violin, an extravaganza in verse by Benjamin Webster, was performed the same year in London
• In his story "Les Tentations ou Eros, Plutus et la Gloire" Baudelaire presents the Demon of Love as holding in his left hand a violin "which without doubt served to sing his pleasures and pains".
• Hoffman. Rat Krespel
• The devil also appears as limping fiddler in a California legend, which appeared under the title "The Devil's Fiddle" in a Californian magazine in 1855
• Anecdotes about Paganini ([Virtuosity, the Violin, the Devil ... What Really Made Paganini "Demonic"? Maiko Kawabata https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3817/072e40483fc9494a91a689c9e1eb262edbdf.pdf])
• H. P. Blavatsky, "The Ensouled Violin"[1]
• The Devils Violin, illustration from the "Legends of Alsace" by Georges Spetz, 1905
• «L'Histoire du Soldat» by Igor Stravinsky 1918
• «The Devil Wed Down to Georgia»
• Rohan Kriwaczek. "An Incomplete History of the Art of Funerary Violin" (2006). Fake story