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The Violin Sonata in G minor, GT 2.g05; B.g5, more familiarly known as the Devil's Trill Sonata (Italian: Il trillo del diavolo), is a work for solo violin (with figured bass accompaniment) by Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770). It is the composer's best-known composition, notable for its technically difficult passages.
A modern variant is the country song The Devil Went Down to Georgia; the PBS segment on violin in its series "Art" was titled "Art of violin: the devil's instrument". [citation needed] Tartini's The Devil's Trill is the signature work of a central character in Daniel Silva's The English Assassin. Anna Rolfe, the daughter of a Swiss banker, is a ...
The Klavierübung (Piano Tutorial, BV A 3), by the Italian pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni, is a compilation of piano exercises and practice pieces, comprising transcriptions of works by other composers and original compositions of his own.
original for piano: Op. 47, No. 1 Tartini, Giuseppe: Fugue in A major: 1913 Sonata in G minor "The Devil's Trill" original for solo violin (with figured bass accompaniment), Violin Sonata in G minor, B.g5; the Cadenza is composed by Kreisler Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Andante cantabile: 1925: from String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11 (1871)
G. Tartini: Devil's Trill Sonata with the Kreisler cadenza or; F. Kreisler: Praeludium and Allegro or; F. Kreisler: Variations on a Theme by Corelli; A composition for violin and piano of the "Viennese school" from the 18th to the 20th century (Viennese classic, Brahms, R. Strauss, Schönberg, Webern, Krenek, etc.)
In music, a sonata (/ s ə ˈ n ɑː t ə /; pl. sonate) [a] literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian cantare, "to sing"), a piece sung. [1]: 17 The term evolved through the history of music, designating a variety of forms until the Classical era, when it took on increasing importance.
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Smetana: Z domoviny (Aus der Heimat; From My Homeland) for violin and piano; his own transcription of waltzes from Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier [27] Tartini: Sonata for violin and continuo in G minor, Devil's Trill Sonata, realized Vieuxtemps; Toselli: Serenade (with Selma Kurz) Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto No.4, Op.31