Tuesday, June 12, 2018

The Great Violinist: John Kowalski

John Kowalski (a virtuoso violinist I made up) was born in town of Town on August 18, 1983. He has become so good he is definitively the best modern virtuoso violinist. Much to the disbelief of many classical music fans, he has surpassed the quality of the legendary Jascha Heifetz who was often referred to as "the king" or "God's fiddler."  Kowalski then proceeded to become the greatest post-Paganini violinist (which many in real life say this is Heifetz). He has somehow figured out how to perform techniques that previously only Paganini had figured how to play. In other words, Kowalski has figured out how to play the hardest pieces devised including Paganini's gruelingly difficult 24th Caprice and Moto Perpetuo on one string, which Paganini himself had performed on one string back in his day. This finally broke Paganini's "unknown" variant of artificial harmonics, and Kowalski started to teach this technique to other instrumentalists. However, unlike Paganini, since Kowalski is not a violinist who is purposely a show off, he performs pieces in this manner just a few times a year to show it truly is possible.