In the last decade, studies on the figure of Giuseppe Tartini have increased significantly on an international scale.

The liveliness of this process was certainly fuelled by two projects (tARTini and Tartini Bis) co-funded by the European Union through the INTERREG Italy - Slovenia programme in the two successive periods 2014 - 2020 and 2021 - 2027.

Thanks to European funds, it has become possible to support research into specific aspects of the life and works of the great Piranese and to give universal accessibility to his cultural heritage digitised and published on www.discovertartini.eu Along with a tourist route through the places of Tartini's life and a section dedicated to young people, the site presents an extensive online archival repository containing a vast documentary apparatus and the catalogue of his works. Beyond his musical production, the vivid personality of Tartini as a scientist, educator and experimenter emerges, being a protagonist of the European cultural debate in the Age of Enlightenment: a figure who was greatly underestimated until recent times, and whose real historical importance is still being uncovered by ongoing studies.

Giuseppe Tartini (Piran 1692 - Padua 1770) was a fascinating and eclectic man: he was the first and most famous violinist in the Europe of his time, he is counted among the greatest composers in the history of world music, he was a great teacher with his pioneering vision of an educational path dedicated to students from all over Europe. But he was also a scientist and technologist: he published important treatises on the theory of music, which he based on the phenomenon, first described by him, of the 'third sound' (phenomenon of 'combination sounds'). He was a researcher for innovative technical-phonic solutions, both in terms of the characteristics of the bow and the strings used to realise an ideal of original sound.

Giuseppe Tartini's popularity has long suffered the consequences of a misunderstood association with the Baroque sensibility, that he, if anything, exceeded; of the undeniable technical difficulty of performing many of his works; and of the dispersion of his manuscripts in archives and libraries that were long unreachable.

Tartini Bis project (June 2023 - March 2025) enhanced and valorised three results of the previous “tARTini” project, which had already substantially changed the relationship between Tartini and its audience: 

Relaunching studies on the innovative nature of Tartini's work as a protagonist of the European Enlightenment.

Developing and improving a digital archive of his musical and theoretical work and his known epistolary, which enables the revival of studies on Tartini and his environment with all the opportunities offered by information technology.

Facilitating the global accessibility to the Tartinian heritage on this multilingual site www.discovertartini.eu

As with his visitors at the time of the 18th century Grand Tour, today Giuseppe Tartini can once again express the attractiveness of his charm in terms of added value and as a system integrator of cultural tourism in the northern Adriatic region. 

The motto of the project "Tartini Bis" recalls its objective to consolidate and further develop the results acquired with the "tARTtini" project and to transfer its methodology to other realities in the programme area of INTERREG VI A Italy - Slovenija 2021 - 2027.

Thus, it has been possible to continue and develop the conservation, study, research and publication of the Tartinian heritage already digitised at www.discovertartini.eu, promoting its knowledge in a cross-border environment, but also among a wider international audience, thanks to the musical productions made possible by the project, and the development of new promotional measures adapted to the needs of sustainable cultural tourism.

The main results of the Tartini Bis project were 

• the identification, digitisation and cataloguing of a large number of new Tartinian sources;

• the publication of new studies on Tartini's work and its analysis at cross-border conferences and symposia;

• the formation of the Giuseppe Tartini cross-border youth orchestra and the original composition for Gorizia / Nova Gorica 2025; link to Trieste and Gorizia concerts

• the organisation of classical and innovative musical events (Wrong Tartini, children's concerts on simplified scores, Tartini Electronic) links to available materials

• the expansion of the cultural tourism path of the Tartini Route with the new Venetian sites;

• the elaboration of two strategies to enhance Tartini's cultural heritage (WP1) and to improving cross-border cultural tourism with an emphasis on classical music (WP2);

• the transfer of good practices from the experience of the Tartini projects to the rediscovery of Miroslav Vilhar, an important figure of the 19th century Slovenian Renaissance.

Developing the resources available in the Discover Tartini digital repository by implementing its potential in the short and medium term, e.g.

• to initiate cross-border partnerships or collaboration networks between tourism operators along the Tartini Route;

• to raise awareness of the free availability of materials appropriate for school use not only in music education;

• to start new studies and cataloguing initiatives through the application of the model and the inclusion of the entire circle of Tartini's friends and pupils in his School of Nations;

this is a prospect for which the partnership of this project and its desired extension cannot suffice without a context of cultural policy, and with it of support for musical tourism rooted on Giuseppe Tartini's musical production in the European context and his prophetic interest in popular music.

This is why today the responsibility of caring for the legacy of Giuseppe Tartini's work in the world unites Italy and Slovenia and forms a solid cultural and tourist bridge between the two countries.