Devil's Trill Sonata
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The Violin Sonata in G minor, GT 2.g05; B.g5, more familiarly known as the Devil's Trill Sonata, is a work for solo violin by Giuseppe Tartini. It is Tartini's best-known composition, notable for its
Tartini's Dream by Louis-Léopold Boilly (1824)
"Trill of the devil at the foot of the bed".
Jérôme Lalande
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Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande was a French astronomer, freemason and writer. He is known for having estimated a precise value of the astronomical unit using measurements of the transit of Venus
Devil's Trill Sonata
…composition, notable for its technically difficult passages. A typical performance lasts 15 minutes. Tartini allegedly told the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande that he had dreamed that the devil had appeared to him and had asked to be Tartini's servant and teacher. At the end of the music lesson, Tartini handed…
Jérôme de La Lande by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1769
Quarter of a circle by the English instrument-maker Jonathan Sisson, used by Jérôme Lalande to measure the distance between the Earth and the Moon in 1751.
Tomb at cimetière du Père-Lachaise.
Voyage d'un françois en Italie, fait dans les années 1765 et 1766. Tome premier, 1769