The guitar’s significance in Paganini’s career as a composer is evident. It is possible that before practicing the violin and the ‘chittara francese’, he received his first musical training from his father on a ‘mandolino genovese, which had six courses or six single strings, tuned similarly to the guitar. The recording dedicated to Paganini’s complete works for guitar is divided into two double-disc volumes. The first volume includes the 43 Ghiribizzi and various other compositions, such as sonatas, sonatinas and free forms. Mauro Bonelli, for the realisation of this work, used a period guitar with catgut strings, tuned to 415 Hz: nineteenth-century Austrian guitar without a label; the fact that its fretboard can be tilted by means of a peg connects it with the best Legnani-Stauffer tradition.