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== [[Zirkoff, Boris]] == | == [[Zirkoff, Boris]] == | ||
'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Tartini, Giuseppe}}'''. Italian violinist, composer and musical theorist, b. at Tirano, Istria, April 8, 1692; d. at Padua, Feb. 16, 1770. After a rather wild youth, he retired to a monastery at Assisi, where his character underwent a complete change, and he engaged in serious study of music, becoming a master of the violin. In 1728, he founded a school for the violin at Padua. His numerous compositions illustrate his passionate and masterly style of execution, in which he surpassed all his contemporaries. He told Lalande in 1766 that the sonata known as ''IL Trillo del Diavolo'' was the fruit of a dream, in which the devil played an exquisite sonata. Tartini wrote several works on {{Page aside|546}}music and conutributed to the science of acoustics by his discovery of differential tones. | '''{{Style S-Small capitals|Tartini, Giuseppe}}'''. Italian violinist, composer and musical theorist, b. at Tirano, Istria, April 8, 1692; d. at Padua, Feb. 16, 1770. After a rather wild youth, he retired to a monastery at Assisi, where his character underwent a complete change, and he engaged in serious study of music, becoming a master of the violin. In 1728, he founded a school for the violin at Padua. His numerous compositions illustrate his passionate and masterly style of execution, in which he surpassed all his contemporaries. He told Lalande in 1766 that the sonata known as ''IL Trillo del Diavolo'' was the fruit of a dream, in which the devil played an exquisite sonata. Tartini wrote several works on {{Page aside|546}}music and conutributed to the science of acoustics by his discovery of differential tones. | ||
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|detail = vol. 2, pp. 545-546 | |detail = vol. 2, pp. 545-546 | ||
|link = Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#545 | |link = Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#545 | ||
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'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Tartini, Giuseppe (1692-1770)}}'''. See Vol. II, pp. 545-46, for biogr. data. | |||
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|author = Boris de Zirkoff | |||
|title = H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings | |||
|detail = vol. 3, p. 532 | |||
|link = Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#532 | |||
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