The first modern edition of Sivori’s Capricci - the most important violin piece after Paganini’s own Capricci - by Fulvio Luciani, who first played them. This revised edition provides all the indications needed for its performance. Thenotes analyse Sivori’s extraordinary modernity - he was Paganini’s only student and also a world-famous violinist - and track the evolutions in taste and technical habits (of the violinists) by means of comparison with all the previous editions ofthe