Editing Niccolò Paganini (section)

===Memorials and other tributes===
[[File:1900 Imperial Cabinet Card of Fiorini Fake Daguerreotype of Niccolò Paganini.jpg|thumb|1900 Imperial Cabinet card of famous Fiorini fake [[daguerreotype]] of Paganini]]
In 1904 the [[Genoa Conservatory]] was renamed the "Conservatorio Niccolò Paganini" in honor of the composer.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Dalla Scuola Gratuita di Canto al Conservatorio: la storia del “Paganini”|author=Salvatore Pintacuda|title=Il Paganini: Quaderno Del Conservatorio "N. Paganini" Di Genova. Numero Monografico La Store Del Conservatorio|publisher=Autorizzazione Tribunale di Genova via De Ferrari Editore|editor=Roberto Iovino|year=2017|url=https://www.conspaganini.it/sites/default/files/upload/doc/Pubblicazioni/WEB_Paganini%202017.pdf|issn=2465-0528|page=66}}</ref> The conservatory is also host to the [[Paganini Competition]] (''Premio Paganini''); an international violin competition created in 1954.

In 1972 the State of Italy purchased a large collection of Niccolò Paganini manuscripts from the W. Heyer Library of Cologne. They are housed at the [[Biblioteca Casanatense]] in Rome.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.casanatense.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93:la-musica&catid=38:il-patrimonio&Itemid=86&lang=en| title = Biblioteca Casanatense.| access-date = 24 March 2010| archive-date = 30 December 2019| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191230053802/http://www.casanatense.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93:la-musica&catid=38:il-patrimonio&Itemid=86&lang=en| url-status = dead}}</ref>

In 1982 the city of Genoa commissioned a thematic catalogue of music by Paganini, edited by Maria Rosa Moretti and Anna Sorrento, hence the abbreviation "MS" assigned to his catalogued works.<ref>Moretti, M.R. & Sorrento, A. (eds). ''Catalogo tematico delle musiche di Niccolò Paganini'' (Genoa: Comune di Genova, 1982).</ref>

A [[minor planet]] [[2859 Paganini]] discovered in 1978 by Soviet astronomer [[Nikolai Chernykh]] is named after him.<ref>{{Cite book| last = Schmadel | first = Lutz D. | author-link = Lutz D. Schmadel | title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names | page = 235 | edition = 5th | year = 2003 | publisher=Springer Verlag | location = New York | isbn = 978-3-540-00238-3}}</ref>