Giuseppe Tartini
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Giuseppe Tartini was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era born in Pirano in the Republic of Venice. Tartini was a prolific composer, composing over a hundred pieces for the violin, the
Giuseppe Tartini
Monument in the Basilica of St Anthony in Padua
Statue of Tartini in Piran, Slovenia
Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell'armonia, 1754
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
Giuseppe Tartini
…composing over a hundred pieces for the violin, the majority of them violin concertos. He is best remembered for his Violin Sonata in G Minor (the Devil's Trill Sonata). Tartini was born on 8 April 1692 in Pirano (today Piran in Slovenia), a town on the peninsula of Istria, in the Republic of Venice to Gianantonio…
Tartini's Dream by Louis-Léopold Boilly (1824)
"Trill of the devil at the foot of the bed".