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Famous Violinists and Fine Violins: Historical Notes, Anecdotes, and …, 1903
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1denly seized his arm, and said, "Too loud, my friend, too loud!"
3The Piedmontese youth began again, but at the same passage Tartini stopped him again, exclaiming this time, "Too soft, my good friend, too soft!" Pugnani thereupon laid down the instrument, and begged Tartini to give him some lessons. He was at once received among the pupils of the maestro of Padua, and, excellent artiste as he already was, actually began his musical education over again.
5I have related this anecdote in my volume above mentioned, and though there can be little doubt of its absolute correctness, I cannot help regretting not having been able, when it appeared, to name the particular "well-known" solo taken up on this occasion. It may be asserted, I think, most positively, that it was none other than the celebrated sonata, now called Il Trillo del Diavolo; of Tartini himself, which, as we have already seen, he had composed at the age of twenty-two, after suffering from an attack of nightmare, in which he saw and heard the eccentric performer Veracini, of Venice, in the shape of Satan, with a violin in his hand, producing the most extraordinary music. The expressive modulations in that composition are very varied from the outset, and require much care to bring out their full effect. At the time of this meeting Pugnani could have been scarcely
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