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Tartini, the European genius of the bow
A comprehensive monograph reconstructs the biographical and other aspects of a major figure on the European music scene, who began in Piran and spent many years in Padua. Mirko Schipilliti's recent biography of Giuseppe Tartini was presented in Trieste. In conversation with musicologist Ivano Cavallini for the "Schmidl Mondays" event at Palazzo Gopcevich, the author illustrated the contents of his Giuseppe Tartini. Genius of the Bow. A Critical Biography (Zecchini, Varese 2025), published with the support of the Municipality of Piran, the Community of Italians of Piran, the Self-Managed Community of Italian Nationality of Piran, the Municipality of Padua, and the Paduan Association...
Tartini Electronic Event in Portorož
To introduce and appreciate Giuseppe Tartini to the new generations through the electronic reinterpretation of his songs, played by internationally renowned DJs. This is the aim of the Tartini Electronic event and related initiatives, organized by the Italian Union as part of the TARTINI BIS project, co-financed by the Interreg VI-A Italy-Slovenia 2021-2027 Program. On Saturday 8 March 2025, the Tartini Electronic event will be held at the "Magazin Grando" in Portorož, with free admission and starting at 21 pm. The evening includes a line-up of DJs from the local and international scene, who will perform excerpts of Tartini's music reworked in an electronic key....
The “Tartini Bis” project begins
With the concert scheduled for Monday 8 April, in Trieste at the Church of San Silvestro, in the name of the celebrations for the 332nd anniversary of the birth of the genius of Piran, the Interreg Tartini bis project opens, a program of events resulting from the joint commitment of cross-border institutions. The project leader is the Tartini Conservatory of Trieste in an ideal relay with the municipality of Piran and with the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory of Venice and the Luigi Bon Foundation. An 18-month-long sequence of events, aimed at strengthening the impacts and synergies of cultural tourism in the name of Giuseppe Tartini, implementing the cross-border valorization of the...
Piran, the inauguration of the Tartini statue remembered
Giuseppe Tartini is certainly one of the jewels in the crown of the Istrian town where he was born in 1692 and where he spent his childhood and youth, after which he took flight to Padua and from there around the world. To keep the memory of the illustrious figure alive, the city theater and the central square are dedicated to him and the Italian Community that has its headquarters in the house where he was born also took his name… In the two hundred years since the birth of the musician, the people of Piran wanted to erect a monument in his honor and entrusted the task of creating the bronze work to the Venetian sculptor Antonio Dal Zotto (1841-1918), which was erected in...
Tartini “Master of Nations” on display in his native Piran
After the installations at the European Parliament in Brussels and the State Chamber in Ljubljana, the exhibition on the life and work of Giuseppe Tartini, called “Master of Nations”, has finally arrived in his hometown and birthplace. The exhibition, curated by Sergio Durante of the University of Padua, as well as Nejc Sukljan and Boštjan Udovič of the University of Ljubljana, was conceived on the occasion of the 330th anniversary of the birth of the composer and violinist from Piran, which occurred last year, proclaimed by the Slovenian government “Tartinian Year”. The inauguration at the headquarters of the local Italian Community “Giuseppe Tartini”, which promoted...
The score of Tartini's "Devil's Trill" is in Terni
Craven Road in London resonates with a strange melody actually composed for strings, but performed by a clarinet played by a strange guy in jeans, a black jacket and a flashy red shirt. It is the investigator of the nightmare Dylan Dog who, among monstrous commitments, has a more human and pleasant one: perfecting the Devil's Trill by Giuseppe Tartini, a musician from Piran who lived in the 17th century. A human undertaking, it was said, but one that continues uninterrupted album after album: the Sonata for violin in G minor (or Devil's Trill) is anything but easy to perform even for a detective of the impossible like Dylan who, perhaps, by visiting Terni could finally find...
Tartini and the violin lesson by correspondence
The Maritime Museum of Piran has published a facsimile of the famous letter that Giuseppe Tartini wrote to his student Maddalena Lombardini, a violin lesson by correspondence "Her main exercise and study must be the bow in general, so that she may become an absolute master of it for any use, whether singable or playable". This is how the letter begins, dated 5 March 1760, that Giuseppe Tartini, at the time the greatest European authority in the field of violin, sent from Padua to his student Maddalena Lombardini, giving her precise instructions on violin technique. A letter that has become famous thanks to numerous posthumous editions, also in other languages, and is considered a...
The Tartini 330 project involves Piran, Trieste and Rijeka
Italian community in the front row, and the Tartini Conservatory of Trieste also joins the activities. Promote and relaunch the name and legacy of Giuseppe Tartini from Piran to the world, pooling resources and energy, and restart after two years of pandemic with renewed momentum, picking up the interrupted thread of the 2020 celebrations, the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of the musician from Piran. Here they are, the events of Tartini 330 promoted by the city of Piran, a busy calendar of initiatives and activities in honor of the eighteenth-century master, illustrated today in the municipal theater named after him, in the presence of the mayor Djenjo Zadković and the deputy mayor,...
Tartini student of the University of Padua
On Friday 23 April 2021, the meeting “Tartini prendere UniPd” was held, a chat lasting just over an hour dedicated to the violinist originally from Piran. This videoconference can be viewed on the YouTube channel of the Multimedia Documentation Centre of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian Culture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpkgzMwK5L0 The meeting brought together experts who have been active for a long time, in wide-ranging research and projects, which in 2020 coincided with 250 years since the death of the Istrian Maestro. Two in particular are worth mentioning: the first involved Italy and Slovenia, co-financed by the European Social Fund http://www.discovertartini.eu/, the second...
A tribute to Giuseppe Tartini
The birth date of the famous composer and violinist has offered the opportunity to virtually unite, on the initiative of the CNI, some realities linked to the Maestro's path, from Piran to Trieste and Padua. Numerous activities are scheduled to celebrate Giuseppe Tartini's birthday. On 8 April 1692, Piran gave birth to the illustrious musician in what is still called Casa Tartini, the seat of the local Italian Community that also bears his name and is now set up as a house-museum. The building also houses the "Diego de Castro" Library, which for the occasion exhibited a selection of volumes by various authors dedicated to the life and...
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