Name Giuseppe Tartini Education University of Padua | Role Composer | |
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Died February 26, 1770, Padua, Italy Compositions Devil's Trill Sonata, Devil's Trill Sonata, Trumpet Concerto in D major, Trumpet Concerto in D major, Sonata no 4 'The Devil's Thrill', Sonata no 4 'The Devil's Thrill', Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G minor - B g5 "Il trillo del diavolo", Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G minor - B g5 "Il trillo del diavolo", Violin Concerto in G minor - D 85: IV Allegro assai, Violin Concerto in G minor - D 85: IV Allegro assai, Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G minor - B g5 "Il trillo del diavolo": IV Allegro assai, Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G minor - B g5 "Il trillo del diavolo": IV Allegro assai, Violin Sonata in G minor - Bg5 'Le trille du diable': I Larghetto affettuoso, Violin Sonata in G minor - Bg5 'Le trille du diable': I Larghetto affettuoso, Violin Sonata in G minor - Bg5 'Le trille du diable': III Andante - Allegro, Violin Sonata in G minor - Bg5 'Le trille du diable': III Andante - Allegro, Trio Sonata in E-flat major - op 8 no 6: II Andante, Trio Sonata in E-flat major - op 8 no 6: II Andante, Violin Sonata in G minor "Didone abbandonata" - op 1 no 10: III Largo, Violin Sonata in G minor "Didone abbandonata" - op 1 no 10: III Largo, Suonata a tre in D minor: Allegro, Suonata a tre in D minor: Allegro, Trompetenkonzert in D-Dur: Allegro grazioso, Trompetenkonzert in D-Dur: Allegro grazioso, Violin Sonata in G minor - "The Devil's Trill": III Grave - Allegro assai, Violin Sonata in G minor - "The Devil's Trill": III Grave - Allegro assai, Concerto for Violin - Strings and Continuo in A major - D 96: II Largo andante in E major [Alternative], Concerto for Violin - Strings and Continuo in A major - D 96: II Largo andante in E major [Alternative], Violin Sonata in G minor - op 1 no 6 "The Devil's Trill": II Allegro moderato, Violin Sonata in G minor - op 1 no 6 "The Devil's Trill": II Allegro moderato, Concerto for Violin - Strings and Continuo in A major - D 96: II Adagio, Concerto for Violin - Strings and Continuo in A major - D 96: II Adagio, Violin Concerto no 4 in D major - D 15: III [Allegro], Violin Concerto no 4 in D major - D 15: III [Allegro], Concerto for Violin - Strings and Continuo in A major - D 96: III Presto, Concerto for Violin - Strings and Continuo in A major - D 96: III Presto, Violin Sonata in G minor "Didone abbandonata" - op 1 no 10: II Allegro commodo, Violin Sonata in G minor "Didone abbandonata" - op 1 no 10: II Allegro commodo, Trio Sonata in E-flat major - op 8 no 6: III Presto, Trio Sonata in E-flat major - op 8 no 6: III Presto, Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G minor - B g5 "Il trillo del diavolo": II Allegro, Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G minor - B g5 "Il trillo del diavolo": II Allegro, Violin Concerto in D minor - D 45: III Presto, Violin Concerto in D minor - D 45: III Presto, Violin Sonata in G minor - op 1 no 6 "The Devil's Trill": I Larghetto ma non troppo, Violin Sonata in G minor - op 1 no 6 "The Devil's Trill": I Larghetto ma non troppo, Trumpet Concerto in D major: II Andante, Trumpet Concerto in D major: II Andante, Violin Concerto in D minor - D 45: I Allegro assai, Violin Concerto in D minor - D 45: I Allegro assai, Violin Concerto no 4 in D major - D 15: II Cantabile, Violin Concerto no 4 in D major - D 15: II Cantabile, Violin Concerto no 2 in E minor - D 55: II Largo, Violin Concerto no 2 in E minor - D 55: II Largo, Violin Sonata in G minor "Didone abbandonata" - op 1 no 10: IV Presto non troppo, Violin Sonata in G minor "Didone abbandonata" - op 1 no 10: IV Presto non troppo, Violin Concerto in G minor - D 85: III Cantabile, Violin Concerto in G minor - D 85: III Cantabile, Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G minor - B g5 "Il trillo del diavolo": III Andante Allegro, Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G minor - B g5 "Il trillo del diavolo": III Andante Allegro, Violin Concerto no 4 in D major - D 15: I Allegro, Violin Concerto no 4 in D major - D 15: I Allegro, Violin Concerto no 2 in E minor - D 55: I Allegro, Violin Concerto no 2 in E minor - D 55: I Allegro, Violin Sonata in G minor - op 1 no 6 "The Devil's Trill": III Grave Allegro assai Grave Allegro assai Grave Allegro assai Cadenza Andante Largo, Violin Sonata in G minor - op 1 no 6 "The Devil's Trill": III Grave Allegro assai Grave Allegro assai Grave Allegro assai Cadenza Andante Largo, Trio Sonata in E-flat major - op 8 no 6: I Largo andante, Trio Sonata in E-flat major - op 8 no 6: I Largo andante, Violin Sonata in G minor "Didone abbandonata" - op 1 no 10: I Affettuoso, Violin Sonata in G minor "Didone abbandonata" - op 1 no 10: I Affettuoso, Violin Sonata in G minor - Bg5 'Le trille du diable': II Allegro (Tempo giusto), Violin Sonata in G minor - Bg5 'Le trille du diable': II Allegro (Tempo giusto), Violin Sonata in G minor - "The Devil's Trill": II Allegro energico, Violin Sonata in G minor - "The Devil's Trill": II Allegro energico, Violin Sonata in G minor - "The Devil's Trill": I Larghetto, Violin Sonata in G minor - "The Devil's Trill": I Larghetto, Concerto for Violin - Strings and Continuo in A major - D 96: I Allegro, Concerto for Violin - Strings and Continuo in A major - D 96: I Allegro, Suonata a tre in D minor: Presto, Suonata a tre in D minor: Presto, Violin Concerto in D minor - D 45: II Grave, Violin Concerto in D minor - D 45: II Grave, Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G minor - B g5 "Il trillo del diavolo": I Larghetto affettuoso, Sonata for Violin and Continuo in G minor - B g5 "Il trillo del diavolo": I Larghetto affettuoso, Violin Concerto in G minor - D 85: II Fuga alla breve, Violin Concerto in G minor - D 85: II Fuga alla breve, Trumpet Concerto in D major: I Allegro moderato, Trumpet Concerto in D major: I Allegro moderato, Violin Concerto no 2 in E minor - D 55: III Allegro, Violin Concerto no 2 in E minor - D 55: III Allegro, Suonata a tre in D minor: Largo andante, Suonata a tre in D minor: Largo andante, Violin Concerto in G minor - D 85: I Allegro, Violin Concerto in G minor - D 85: I Allegro Similar People Niccolo Paganini, Fritz Kreisler, Antonio Vivaldi, David Oistrakh, Luigi Boccherini | ||
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Giuseppe Tartini (8 April 1692 – 26 February 1770) was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist.
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Biography
Tartini was born in Piran, a town on the peninsula of Istria, in the Republic of Venice (now in Slovenia) to Gianantonio – native of Florence – and Caterina Zangrando, a descendant of one of the oldest aristocratic Piranian families.
It appears Tartini's parents intended him to become a Franciscan friar and, in this way, he received basic musical training. He studied law at the University of Padua, where he became skilled at fencing. After his father's death in 1710, he married Elisabetta Premazore, a woman his father would have disapproved of because of her lower social class and age difference. Unfortunately, Elisabetta was a favorite of the powerful Cardinal Giorgio Cornaro, who promptly charged Tartini with abduction. Tartini fled Padua to go to the monastery of St. Francis in Assisi, where he could escape prosecution. While there, Tartini took up playing the violin.
Legend says when Tartini heard Francesco Maria Veracini's playing in 1716, he was impressed by it and dissatisfied with his own skill. He fled to Ancona and locked himself away in a room to practice, according to Charles Burney, "in order to study the use of the bow in more tranquility, and with more convenience than at Venice, as he had a place assigned him in the opera orchestra of that city."
Tartini's skill improved tremendously and, in 1721, he was appointed Maestro di Cappella at the Basilica di Sant'Antonio in Padua, with a contract that allowed him to play for other institutions if he wished. In Padua he met and befriended fellow composer and theorist Francesco Antonio Vallotti.
Tartini was the first known owner of a violin made by Antonio Stradivari in 1715, which Tartini bestowed upon his student Salvini, who in turn bestowed it to the Polish music composer and virtuoso violinist Karol Lipinski upon hearing him perform, from which it derives its moniker, the Lipinski Stradivarius. He also owned and played the Antonio Stradivarius violin ex-Vogelweith from 1711.
In 1726, Tartini started a violin school which attracted students from all over Europe. Gradually, Tartini became more interested in the theory of harmony and acoustics, and from 1750 to the end of his life he published various treatises.
His home town, Piran, now has a statue of Tartini in the square, which was the old harbour, originally Roman, named the Tartini Square (Slovene: Tartinijev trg, Italian: Piazza Tartini). Silted up and obsolete, the port was cleared of debris, filled, and redeveloped. One of the old stone warehouses is now the Hotel Giuseppe Tartini. His birthday is celebrated by a concert in the main town cathedral.
Compositions
Today, Tartini's most famous work is the "Devil's Trill Sonata," a solo violin sonata that requires a number of technically demanding double stop trills and is difficult even by modern standards. (One 19th-century myth had it that Tartini had six digits on his left hand, making these trills easier for him to play.) According to a legend embroidered upon by Madame Blavatsky, Tartini was inspired to write the sonata by a dream in which the Devil appeared at the foot of his bed playing the violin.
Almost all of Tartini's works are violin concerti (at least 135) and violin sonatas. Tartini's compositions include some sacred works such as a Miserere, composed between 1739 and 1741 at the request of Pope Clement XII, and a Stabat Mater, composed in 1769. He also composed trio sonatas and a sinfonia in A. Tartini's music is problematic to scholars and editors because Tartini never dated his manuscripts, and he also revised works that had been published or even finished years before, making it difficult to determine when a work was written, when it was revised and what the extent of those revisions were. The scholars Minos Dounias and Paul Brainard have attempted to divide Tartini's works into periods based entirely on the stylistic characteristics of the music.
Sixty-two manuscripts with compositions of Tartini are housed at the Biblioteca comunale Luciano Benincasa in Ancona.
Luigi Dallapiccola wrote a piece called Tartiniana based on various themes by Tartini.
Theoretical work
In addition to his work as a composer, Tartini was a music theorist, of a very practical bent. He is credited with the discovery of sum and difference tones, an acoustical phenomenon of particular utility on string instruments (intonation of double-stops can be judged by careful listening to the difference tone, the "terzo suono"). He published his discoveries in a treatise "Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell'armonia'" (Padua, 1754). His treatise on ornamentation was eventually translated into French— though when its influence was rapidly waning, in 1771— by a certain "P. Denis," whose introduction called it "unique"; indeed, it was the first published text devoted entirely to ornament and, though it was all but forgotten, as only the printed edition survived, has provided first-hand information on violin technique for modern historically informed performances, once it was published in English translation by Sol Babitz in 1956. Of greater assistance to such performance was Erwin Jacobi's published edition. In 1961, Jacobi published a tri-lingual edition consisting of the French (basis of the following two), English (translation by Cuthbert Girdlestone), plus Jacobi's own translation into German (Giuseppe Tartini. "Traite des agrement de la musique," trans. and ed. Erwin Jacobi. Celle: Hermann Moeck Verlag, 1961). Of significant import, Jacobi's edition also includes a facsimile of the original Italian found in Venice in 1957, copied in the hand of Giovanni Nicolai (one of Tartini's best known students) and including an opening section on bowing and a closing section on how to compose cadenzas not previously known. Another copy (though less complete) of the Italian original was found among manuscripts purchased by the University of California, Berkeley in 1958, a collection that also included numerous ornamented versions of slow movements of concertos and sonatas, written in Tartini's hand. Minnie Elmer analyzed these ornamented versions in her master's thesis at UC, Berkeley in 1959 (Minnie Elmer. "The Improvised Ornamentation of Giuseppe Tartini." Unpublished M.A. thesis. Berkeley, 1959).
Fictional portrayal
Tartini is mentioned in Madame Blavatsky's "The Ensouled Violin," a short story included in the collection Nightmare Tales.
Tartini, the great composer and violinist of the XVIIIth century, was denounced as one who got his best inspirations from the Evil One, with whom he was, it was said, in regular league. This accusation was, of course, due to the almost magical impression he produced upon his audiences. His inspired performance on the violin secured for him in his native country the title of “Master of Nations.” The Sonate du Diable, also called “Tartini’s Dream”—as every one who has heard it will be ready to testify—is the most weird melody ever heard or invented: hence, the marvellous composition has become the source of endless legends. Nor were they entirely baseless, since it was he, himself; who was shown to have originated them. Tartini confessed to having written it on awakening from a dream, in which he had heard his sonata performed by Satan, for his benefit, and in consequence of a bargain made with his infernal majesty.
The folklore of the "Devil's violin," classically exemplified by a similar story told of Niccolo Paganini, is widespread; it is a subset of the "Deal with the Devil." Modern variants are Roland Bowman's The Devil's Violin, the country song The Devil Went Down To Georgia; the PBS segment on violin in its series "Art" was titled "Art of violin: the devil's instrument."
Tartini's The Devil's Trill is the signature work of a central character in Daniel Silva's The English Assassin. Anna Rolfe, the daughter of a Swiss banker, is a famous violinist and the sonata features prominently in the novel. The story of Tartini's inspirational dream is told.
Tartini's "The Devil's Trill" is also featured in the Japanese Anime Descendants of Darkness (Yami no Matsuei). The three part story is also named after the song.