ALONG THE STEPS OF A LIFETIME

15 - A destabilizing listening

Venice

The coincidence that Father Giovanni Torre da Piran had died in Assisi in 1713, leaving him without protection inside the convent and forcing him to move to Ancona for better sustenance, appears less legendary but much more realistic.” “Tartini returned to Veneto after years in Assisi, and here he was reunited with his wife. At that time he often went to Venice and on one of these occasions he heard a great violinist of the time, Francesco Maria Veracini, play in an academy in the Mocenigo house in Venice. The concert was a tribute to the Prince-elector of Saxony, recently arrived in Venice. The technique with which Veracini used the bow to play the violin hit Tartini so hard that he felt the need to perfect the bow technique for himself .

ALONG THE STEPS OF A LIFETIME

15 - A destabilizing listening

Venice

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Giuseppe Tartini

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Turismo tartiniano