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The violin and its music, 1885
6 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 210. See the scan on archive.org.
1at Padua. In 1728 we find him at the head of a Violin school in Padua, where Bini, Nardini, Ferrari Pagin, and other eminent Violinists received instruction, through whom was carried onward the art of Violin playing which Veracini introduced, and Tartini enriched with musical learning and much executive development. Although frequently importuned to leave his Paduan home and visit the chief European capitals, Tartini could not be induced to exchange the peaceful life he led there, acquiring and imparting knowledge of his art, for one of everlasting contention with the famous Violinists of his time. The spirit of rivalry had no place in his amiable and gentle disposition; to be a successful public performer and avoid contention in some shape or other is difficult, and when it presents itself it needs the quality of combativeness to wrestle with it.
3Tartini died at Padua in the month of February, 1770, deeply mourned by the citizens among whom he lived nearly half a century. He was buried in the Church of St. Catherine; a requiem, composed by Valotti, was performed at the Church of St. Anthony.
5The melody and harmony of Tartini's music reminds us of the words of Campbell on the poetry of Spenser: "beautiful, in its antiquity, and, like the moss and ivy on some majestic building, covers the fabric of his 'music' with romantic and venerable associations." In Mainwaring's Memoirs of the Life of Handel, published in 1760, eighteen years before
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