A Biographical Dictionary of Fiddlers di A. Mason Clarke
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kind of a musician he was, when, to his great astonishment, he heard him play a solo so singularly beautiful, which he executed with such superior taste and precision, that it surpassed all the music he had ever heard or conceived in his life. So great was his surprise, and so exquisite his delight upon this occasion, that it deprived him of the power of breathing. He awoke with the violence of his sensations, and instantly seized his fiddle, in hopes of expressing what he had just heard ; but in vain. He however directly composed a piece, which is, perhaps, the best of all his works, and called it the ' Devil's Sonata '; he knew it, however, to be so inferior to what his sleep had produced, that he stated, he would have broken his instrument, and abandoned music for ever, if he could have subsisted by any other means."
The following are the principal works of Tartini:—Sei concerti, Lib. I. e II., Op. 1 (Amsterdam, Roger, 1734); Sei sonate a violino e violoncello o cembalo, Op. 2 (Rome, 1745); The same, with six others, as XII. sonate a violino e basso (not figured), etc.. Op. 3 (Paris, Leclerc); Sei concerti a violino solo, due violini, viola e violoncello o cembala di concerto, Op. 4 (Paris, Venier); VI. Sonates a violon seul et basse continue, also marked, Op. 4 (Paris, Leclerc); 6 do., Op. 5 (ib.
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Biographical Dictionary Fiddlers Devil Sonata Tartini Lib Amsterdam Roger Sei Rome The Paris Leclerc Sei Paris Venier Paris Leclerc Sei
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