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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 ...
Giuseppe Tartini (8 April 1692–26 February 1770), Venetian violinist and composer, who believed that his Devil's Trill Sonata was inspired by the devil's appearance before him in a dream. [15] Niccolò Paganini (27 October 1782–27 May 1840), an Italian violinist who may not have started the rumor but played along with it. [16]
Devil's Trill sonata and many others; Georg Philipp Telemann. Methodical Sonatas for violin and continuo; Sonates sans basse and Canonic Sonatas, both sets for two instruments (e.g. violins) Alice Tegnér. Sonata for violin and piano in A minor (1901) [24] (you can also find the music notes for both parts at this reference) Susan Trew
Devil's Trill Sonata; Arcangelo Corelli. Trio Sonatas op. 1–4; Domenico Scarlatti. Keyboard sonata in E major L. 23; Keyboard sonata in B minor L. 33; Keyboard sonata in C major L. 104; Keyboard sonata in F minor L. 118; Keyboard sonata in A minor L. 241; Keyboard sonata in D minor L. 266; Keyboard sonata in G major L. 349; Keyboard sonata in ...
Other well-known Baroque sicilianas are: the middle movement of Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto Grosso, Op. 3, No. 11, from L'estro armonico (which Bach then transcribed as his Concerto in D minor for organ, BWV 596), the first movement of Giuseppe Tartini's "Devil's Trill Sonata" for violin, [6] and the last movement of Arcangelo Corelli's ...
Giuseppe Tartini recounted that his most famous work, his Violin Sonata in G minor, more commonly known as the Devil's Trill Sonata, came to him in a dream in 1713. According to Tartini's account given to the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande , he dreamed that he had made a pact with the devil , to whom he had handed a violin after a music ...
Devil's Trill: Giuseppe Tartini, Violin Sonata in G minor Di tre re : Arthur Honegger , Symphony No. 5 Dissonance : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , String Quartet No. 19 in C major , K. 465