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Tartini

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[tahr-tee-nee] / tɑrˈti ni /

noun

  1. Giuseppe 1692–1770, Italian violinist and composer.


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“The army of invisibles will become even bigger,” said Francesco Tartini, an immigration lawyer in northeastern Italy who represented Miah in his final appeal.

From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2019

Ms. Podger’s warm, clean sound, stenciled phrasing and rhythmic vivacity in this program of works by Bach, Tartini and Biber showed why she has become one of the leading performers on Baroque violin.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2015

The lineup here includes her transcription of Bach’s Partita for Flute in A minor; as well as Bach’s Partita in D minor and works by Tartini and von Biber.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2015

In San Francisco's gold and red plush opera house, onetime Child Prodigy Yehudi Menuhin, 33, observed the 25th anniversary of his debut as a violinist with a program of sonatas by Tartini, Bach and Beethoven.

From Time Magazine Archive

Waking from the dream, Tartini attempted to recollect the fugitive motives of this diabolic sonata, but could not — and wrote instead, from those fragments, his sonata, infamous for its difficulty, called “The Devil’s Trill.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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