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Giuseppe Tartini, beneški skladatelj in violinist, * 8. april 1692, Piran, † 26. februar 1770, Padova.
Bil je eden največjih violinistov svoje dobe, izjemno priljubljen pa je bil tudi kot predklasični skladatelj in izviren glasbeni teoretik. Na izoblikovanje njegovega stila je najbolj vplival baročni mojster Arcangelo Corelli, Tartinija pa zaradi pogoste uporabe okraskov in vseh vrst trilčkov uvrščajo med rokokojske skladatelje.
Po skladatelju je poimenovan osrednji piranski trg, kjer se nahaja tudi njegova rojstna hiša, z njegovim imenom pa so si pomagali tudi nekateri slovenski glasbeni ansambli, Godalni kvartet Tartini, Trio Tartini, in tako dalje.
Giuseppe Tartini se je rodil v Piranu 8. aprila 1692. Oče Gian Antonio je bil firenškega porekla in je prišel v Piran najverjetneje zaradi trgovanja. Kasneje se je zaposlil kot javni pisar za odkup soli. Mati Caterina Zangrando je bila potomka ene najstarejših plemiških družin v Piranu. Tartini je prvo znanje nabiral v oratoriju očetov Filipinov v Piranu, kasneje pa so ga vpisali v Collegio dei padri delle scuole Pie v Kopru. Verjetno je obiskoval tudi piransko akademijo I virtuosi, ki je združevala vse izobražene piranske meščane, da so na svojih srečanjih razpravljali o glasbi, umetnosti, literaturi. Šolanje je nadaljeval v koprskem kolegiju. Oče je želel, da bi se posvetil duhovniškemu poklicu, a sina je nemirna narava gnala drugam. Študij je nadaljeval na pravni fakulteti univerze v Padovi. Po nevšečnostih zaradi poroke s škofovo nečakinjo je moral Padovo zapustiti. Zatekel se je v Assisi, kjer je v tamkajšnjem samostanu intenzivno študiral violino in osnove kompozicije. V tem času se je ukvarjal tudi z raziskovanjem akustičnih zakonitosti. Biografski podatki za nadaljnja leta so skopi: znano je, da je igral v raznih gledaliških orkestrih in nastopal kot solist, svojo violinsko igro pa je izboljševal tudi v Anconi, kjer je študiral dve leti.
Leta 1721 so ga povabili na mesto prvega violinista in koncertnega mojstra v baziliki svetega Antona v Padovi. Imenovan je bil brez predhodne avdicije, kar priča o velikem slovesu, ki ga je užival kot virtuoz. Po krajšem bivanju v Pragi je na vrhuncu svojih ustvarjalnih moči deloval predvsem v Padovi, kjer je zopet prevzel vodstvo glasbene kapele v stolnici. Leta 1728 je ustanovil slovito violinsko šolo La scuola delle nazioni. Učenci so vanjo prihajali iz raznih koncev Evrope, zato se je Tartinija prijel vzdevek Il maestro delle nazioni (glasbeni mojster narodov). Umrl je v Padovi 26. februarja 1770. Pokopan je v cerkvi svete Katarine v Padovi (Chiesa di Santa Caterina). Na pročelju cerkve je vzidana tudi spominska plošča.
Zapustil je obsežen opus: okoli 130 koncertov, prek 170 sonat za violino in tako dalje. Pisal je predvsem za violino. Njegovo najslavnejše delo je sonata Vražji trilček. Legenda pripoveduje, da se mu je v snu prikazal sam vrag, ki je igral na violino. Takoj ko se je prebudil, je melodijo zapisal. Tako naj bi nastala ena najbolj znanih in najbolj zahtevnih evropskih skladb za violino.
Naloge za vpis:
- Na spomeniku poiščite letnico in ugotovite kakšen napis je na njegovi violini, ki je na njem in mi oboje sporočite preko e-maila.
- Obvezno priložite sliko sebe ali osebnim vzdevkom(nicknamom) zraven spomenika.
Seveda veste kaj se bo zgodilo z vpisi, ki ne bodo vsebovali obeh zahtev 😃
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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 Piranese 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 practise, 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 gave it to the Polish composer and virtuoso violinist Karol Lipiński upon hearing him perform: the instrument is thus known as the Lipinski Stradivarius. Tartini 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. He died in Padua.
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.
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. 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.
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 agréments 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).
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 Niccolò Paganini, is widespread; it is an instance of the "Deal with the Devil". Modern variants are Roland Bowman's The Devil's Violin and 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.
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