Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
- Concertino (Fa maggiore) con Flauto solo | Violini Obligati
Performers: Ensemble Baroque Le Rondeau; Jean-Pierre Boullet (flute & conductor)
Further info: Un Accademia a Napoli Nell' Anno 1725
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Italian composer, violinist, teacher and theorist. Son of Giovanni
Antonio Tartini and Caterina Zangrando, his parents desired that he
enter the church, but while a law student at the University of Padua, he
married Elisabetta Premazore on 29 July 1710. Compelled to leave Padua,
he took refuge for three years in the convent of San Francesco
d’Assisi, where he studied the violin without a teacher. By 1714, he was
a violinist in the Ancona opera and spent the next years playing at
various theaters in northeastern Italy. On 16 April 1721, he was
appointed 'primo violino e capo di concerto' at San Antonio of Padua.
From 1723 to 1726, he was in Prague, in service to the Kinsky family,
where he met Johann Joseph Fux, Antonio Caldara, and Sylvius Weiss,
among other luminaries. Then he returned to Padua, started his school,
and about 1730, brought out his first published volume of violin works.
About 1740, he suffered a stroke that adversely affected his playing,
and he devoted more and more time to music theory in his last years. In
an age when composing for the church or the theater was the sure path to
success, he refused to do either and embarked upon an idiosyncratic
career establishing an international reputation as violinist and
philosopher of music, writing five treatises contesting the ideas of
Giovanni Battista Martini, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, among others, and leaving an oeuvre concentrated on the
violin: about 135 solo violin concertos, about 135 violin sonatas with
continuo, 30 unaccompanied sonatas, and about 40 trio sonatas. He also
composed 2 flute concertos, 2 concertos for viola da gamba, 4 motets,
and 20 Italian sacred songs. Most of his living was made as a freelance
violinist. In the late 1720s, he founded his own school of violin
playing, the first of its type, known as 'school of the nations' because
it attracted students from all over Europe.
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