TARTINI ROUTE

Musical suggestions

Many places recall the presence of Giuseppe Tartini and these represent ideal spaces to stop and listen to his music, or to discover the secrets of the musical instruments and history of his time.
Piran has opened his birthplace to the public, which has become a modern museum and study centre, and named its main square after him and in which the visitor makes their way around his statue. Padua has dedicated one of the monuments that embellish the ellipse of Prato della Valle to him while Trieste named its Conservatory of Music after him, in which precious Tartini artifacts are preserved. But in these cities there are also other evocative places in which the visitor can stop in the quiet to listen to the compositions of the musician of Piran or his students including the Botanical Garden of Padua, on the waterfront in Trieste, or in the Church of San Giorgio in Piran itself.
Along this path we also outline visits to important places for musical culture such as museums dedicated to the history of musical instruments as well as academies and music schools where their secrets can be discovered.
The stages of this and the other two routes lie both in Italy and in Slovenia.

Trieste

1 - G. Tartini Conservatory

We have no definite information about the times Giuseppe Tartini spent in Trieste. In various letters however, Tartini refers to Trieste, even addressing some of them to his nephew Pietro who lived...

Trieste

2 - City seafront

Certain places are able to provide a better setting for listening to music than others. The city’s seafront is certainly one of those magical places where one can withdraw oneself and dedicate...

Trieste

3 - Barcola

The Barcola Riviera is a long promenade that leads from a stand of pines with an adjoining car park area to the Miramare Castle. The whole route is on a pavement, with maritime pines overhead and a...

Trieste

4 - Hill of San Giusto

The Colle (hill) of San Giusto is the historical heart of the city and its buildings are witnesses to the various phases of its history. First fortified in prehistoric times, it later became the...

Trieste

5 - Castle of Miramare

Inside you can admire the mosaics of the apse on the left with the Madonna amongst the Archangels from the 12th century and that on the right with the mosaic of Christ between San Giusto and San...

Trieste

6 - Carlo Schmidl civic theatrical museum

In the other wing, temporary exhibitions of great appeal are put on in rapid succession. The Civic Theatre Museum documents the life of theatre and music in Trieste from the 18th century through to...

Trieste

7 - Statue of Charles VI

In 1719 Emperor Charles VI of Habsburg established the Free Port in Trieste, transforming a small town into the main port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Nine years later the Emperor arrived in the...

Padua

8 - Prato della Valle

Prato della Valle is the largest square in Padua, and one of the largest in Europe and for the Paduans it is just “il Prato” (“the Meadow”). At the centre of the large open space is an...

Padua

9 - Botanical garden

Between the Basilica of Sant'Antonio and Prato della Valle we encounter a green oasis, the oldest University botanical garden in the world, founded in 1545. The garden was created to allow the...

Padua

10 - Gardens of the Eremitani and chapel of the Scrovegni

The Eremitani Garden is located in a very central position, but its size and tortuous little paths render it an oasis of peace. In the garden is the Roman Arena, built in 70 CE, the oldest theatre in...

Cremona

11 - Violin museum

For every violin enthusiast, a visit to the Cremona museum will be a moment of great interest. The museum is divided into several sections that let you discover the secrets of a violin-making school...

Milan

12 - Musical Instruments Museum

The Civic Museum of Musical Instruments, houses more than 800 pieces from the 16th century through to the second half of the 20th century. In terms of importance and number of finds it is one of the...

Bologna

13 - International museum and musical library

In the centre of Bologna, a music library preserves and proudly displays almost 100,000 musical documents including scores, parts, librettos, letters, printed books and manuscripts. Bologna was also...

Piran

14 - Tartini House

The birthplace of the composer and violinist Giuseppe Tartini is an important cultural monument, located between a series of buildings on the north side of the then port (the mandracchio) and the...

Piran

15 - Piazza Tartini

The Piazza Tartini adorns many postcards of Piran. Often, the panorama of the city extends from the dominant Church of S. Giorgio on the promontory to the historic city centre, represented by the...

Piran

16 - Monument to Tartini

In 1896, the monument to Giuseppe Tartini, brought here from Venice on a vaporetto of the same name, was inaugurated in the main square, with great ceremonies,. The creation of the monument had been...

Piran

17 - Mediadom Pyrhani

Mediadom Pyrhani is a cultural centre and a multimedia museum that accompanies you, like a time machine, on a journey through twenty centuries of history, from antiquity to today's Piran. With 3D...

Strunjan

18 - The Cliffs of Strunjan

In Strunjan, the young Giuseppe spent a cheerful and carefree childhood. Around 1700, the Tartini family from Piran built a country villa with a spectacular view of the sea and the town of Piran,...

Piran

19 - Tartini Festival

The Tartini festival is an international summer chamber music festival dedicated to one of the greatest European artists and composers of the 18th century, Giuseppe Tartini. In addition to his works,...

Piran

20 - Tartini Theatre

The Tartini Theatre” is one of the main monuments of town culture in Piran. The long rule of the Republic of Venice has left an indelible mark on this city, while only the final decades of the...

Piran

21 - Church of San Francesco and Convent of the Friars Minor

The Friars Minor arrived in Piran even before the construction of the church and the convent. The Church of San Francesco, which dates back to the year 1301, was built in Gothic style, and over the...

Piran

22 - Parish Church if San Giorgio and baptistery of San Giovanni Battista

The Baroque church with its independent bell tower and a baptistery dominates the promontory above the city of Piran. The slope of the promontory with the complex of religious buildings is supported...

Koper

23 - Koper School of Music

The Music School of Koper, with its sections in Piran and Izola, is one of the largest music schools in Slovenia and a member of the Association of Slovenian music schools. This important cultural...

Ljubljana

24 - Ljubljana Academy of Music

The Music Academy of the University of Ljubljana is the only university institute for higher musical education in Slovenia. Before today’s academy there existed Ljubljana’s Central Music...

Piran

25 - Sergej Mašera Museum of the Sea in Piran

The Museum of the Sea has its headquarters in the 19th-century Palazzo Gabrielli, built - like many other buildings in Piran at that time - in a neoclassical style. The building that stands on the...

Koper

26 - Regional Museum of Koper

The Regional Museum of Koper was founded in 1910 and since the end of the First World War has had its headquarters in the beautiful palazzo Belgramoni-Tacco, built in the Baroque style in the...

Venice

27 - The venetian hospitals

The pedagogical activity of Tartini is certified in the Lagoon, where he used to educate some maidens in Venetian hospices (Ospedali). Similar welfare institutions, aimed at the sick,...

Venice

28 - Tartini and Nazari at the choir loft of St. Mark's Church

The fame Tartini earned as a violin virtuoso and composer during his lifetime accompanied his arrival in Venice, where he often performed in the city's main churches. Francesco Caffi, author of the...

Venice

29 - Musical challenge at Palazzo Mocenigo

At Palazzo Mocenigo on a reception to honour the visit of Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Tartini was confronted by Francesco Maria Veracini from Florence, a violinist few years older and more...

Venice

30 - The Tartinian sources in Venice

Venetian libraries hold valuable musical treasures, including many printed and manuscript sources of Giuseppe Tartini's compositions. The library of the Conservatory of Music 'Benedetto...

Venice

31 - Tartini and Vandini at Salute

On several occasions, Tartini played with the Bolognese cellist and composer Antonio Vandini (1690c - 1778), a lifelong friend, who was also a teacher in the Ospedale della Pietà in 1720 and...