Giuseppe Tartini is a Violoniste and Italian type-setter, born the April 8th 1692 in Pirano (currently Piran, in Slovenia), close to Trieste and dead the February 26th 1770 with Padoue.

Its life

Its family intended it for the ecclesiastical career. In 1709, it was registered as student in right to the University of Padoue. In 1710, it contracted marriage, which put it in delicacy with the Church and determined it to take refuge in a convent with Assise. It is there that, according to any probability, it accepted a musical instruction of the Czech Buhoslav Cernohorsky. As from 1714, he was musician of orchestra, carrying on his activity with Assise and Ancône. In 1721, it is lived to entrust the direction of the orchestra of the Saint-Anthony basilica to Padoue. This station enabled him to accomplish several voyages; moreover, it remained several years with Prague where it on the occasion to assist with the crowning of Charles VI. Of return to Padoue, it founded a famous music school which attracted musicians from all Europe. One of its favorite pupils was Pietro Nardini. It wrote many theoretical works on the music, among which a treaty on the art of the ornamentation. who could be used as example with Leopold Mozart for his École of the violin . The theoretical works which appeared thereafter, which rested partially on erroneous speculations, but also on real data of the experiment, were the object of criticism virulent and of settings in doubt by its competitors. These controversies made it sick and he died about it in 1770.

Friedrich Rust was the pupil of Tartini about 1767.

Its style

The style of Tartini evolved/moved in a very significant way during its career. With the beginning, it had much with those of Arcangelo Corelli and Antonio Vivaldi. Its manner, attaching much importance to the ornamentation according to the tradition baroque, leads later to a preclassical virtuosity. Tartini was famous for its singing play and its legendary blow of bow.

Its work

Like many its contemporaries, Tartini was an extremely prolific type-setter:

• 130 concertos of violin
• 150 sonatas for the violin
• 50 sonatas in trios
• “arte LED arco” (the Art of the Bow)
• an unspecified number of vocal religious compositions.

Outstanding works

• the sonata of the trilles of the Devil
• the sonata Didone abandonata (Didon abandoned)
• the arte dell' arco (50 Variationen on a Gavotte of Arcangelo Corelli)

Publications

From its time, many its works were published by fâmeux editors: Michel Cene with Amsterdam, Walsh with London and the Clerk with Paris.

The legend of the sonata of the trilles of the Devil

I dreamed one night that I had sealed a pact with the Devil for the price of my heart. All obeyed my will, my new servant knew all my wishes in advance. Then me the idea had entrusted my violin to him and had just awaited what it would draw. Which was not my astonishment when I heard it play, with a consumed art, a sonata of a beauty such as I could not have imagined some of more beautiful. I was amazed and charmed, the short breath and I awoke. I seized then my violin and tried to reproduce this extraordinary sonority. In vain. The part that I then wrote is certainly one of most beautiful than I ever composed; it remains however well below what I had heard in dream.

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