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Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Celebrated Violinists, 1877
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1call it the Sonata del Diavolo; but it sinks so much into insignificance compared with what I heard, that I would have broken my instrument and abandoned music altogether had I possessed any other means of subsistence."
3It might be suggested that the devil in Tartini's dream was simply an exaggerated reminiscence of the eccentric Veracini, as he knew him at Venice. Another suggestion is that the name of the piece was given by the young professor (for Tartini was only twenty-two years of age when he composed this Sonata) on account of the difficult passage of double shakes that occurs twice in it, and which a French performer might have termed "diablement difficile."
5Tartini died at Padua on the 26th February, 1770, and was universally regretted; he had resided nearly fifty years in that town, and was looked upon with pride by every inhabitant of the place; he was of a serious, contemplative, scientific turn of mind, and had long enjoyed the estimation of his fellow-townspeople as a religious man, a philosopher, and a great musician. He used to say himself that he studied very little till after he was thirty years of age; by which we must
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