The guitar played a significant role in Paganini’s career as a composer. It’s speculated that he received his initial musical training from his father on a Genoese mandolin before focusing on the violin and the ‘chittara francese.’ These instruments shared a similar tuning 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.