Giuseppe Tartini - Lettere e documenti / Pisma in dokumenti / Letters and Documents - Volume / Knjiga / Volume II

445 LETTERS take the opportunity of entreating you to give me some news about the state of health of Signor Hunt, 98 to whom please give on my behalf my most cordial greetings and embraces, as I do with you, to whom I confirm myself and remain as ever Your Lordship’s servant Giuseppe Tartini 161. Tartini to G.B. Martini Through our Padre Maestro Vallotti I have received the gift of Your Reverence consisting in your most virtuous dissertation. I thank you all the more, as it is a sure sign of the memory which you kindly cherish of me. From what I see, it appears to me that the time has come for Italy to rouse itself and rise again from its base servitude to foreign countries that were once our servants in studies, and especially in music. I shall publish, as soon as possible, a dissertation on the true first principles of the diatonic genre. It has been complete for two years and more; but before publishing it I have wanted it to be examined quite rigorously throughout almost the whole of Italy, and it has withstood all scrutiny. I am indeed sure that this is the rock against which both our profession and the modern learned have hitherto crashed. I am also sure that when there is no longer partisan spirit among us Italians (our true plague), on these matters the other nations will have just cause to feel ashamed of what they have made public. It will be my obligation to get it to Your Reverence among the very first, and it will be accompanied by some other thing, for I am constantly attentive to the need to send you something really good. I convey to you my most cordial and reverent regards, and as ever I remain Your Reverence’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 9 March 1766 98 Johann Baptista Hunt (1755-1776), a Saxon pupil of Tartini’s in Padua. See Meißner, 1803 (2017), p. 35 and Owens – Reual – Stockigt, 2011, p. 41.