What is the better known name of Violin Sonata in G minor by Giuseppe Tartini that the composer said was played to him in a dream by Satan himself?
"a central character in Daniel Silva's ""The English Assassin"". Anna Rolfe, the daughter of a Swiss banker, is a famous violinist and the sonata features prominently in the novel. The story of Tartini's inspirational dream is told. Tartini's ""The Devil's Trill"" is also featured in the Japanese anime ""Descendants of Darkness"" (""Yami no Matsuei""). The three part story is also named after the song. Giuseppe Tartini Giuseppe Tartini (8 April 1692 – 26 February 1770) was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist. Tartini was born in Pirano, a town on the peninsula of Istria, in the Republic of Venice (now"
"played a major role in shaping the popular image of Satanism. The film version of Ira Levin's ""Rosemary's Baby"" established made Satanic themes a staple of mainstream horror fiction. Later films such as ""The Exorcist"" (1973), ""The Omen"" (1976) and ""Angel Heart"" (1987) feature Satan as an antagonist. References to Satan in music can be dated back to the Middle Ages. During the fifth century, a musical interval called the tritone became known as ""the devil in Music"" and was banned by the Catholic Church. Giuseppe Tartini was inspired to write his most famous work, the Violin Sonata in G"
"play.) According to a legend embroidered upon by Madame Blavatsky, Tartini was inspired to write the sonata by a dream in which the Devil appeared at the foot of his bed playing the violin. Almost all of Tartini's works are violin concerti (at least 135) and violin sonatas. Tartini's compositions include some sacred works such as a Miserere, composed between 1739 and 1741 at the request of Pope Clement XII, and a Stabat Mater, composed in 1769. He also composed trio sonatas and a sinfonia in A. Tartini's music is problematic to scholars and editors because Tartini never dated his"
"skill, which the devil began to play with virtuosity, delivering an intense and magnificent performance. So singularly beautiful and executed with such superior taste and precision, that the composer felt his breath taken away. The complete story is told by Tartini himself in Lalande's ""Voyage d'un François en Italie"": One night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. Everything went as I wished: my new servant anticipated my every desire. Among other things, I gave him my violin to see if he could play. How great was my astonishment on"
"have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me. Mesmerized by the devil’s brilliant and awe-inspiring playing, Tartini attempted to recreate what he had heard. However, despite having said that the sonata was his favorite, Tartini later wrote that it was ""so inferior to what I had heard, that if I could have subsisted on other means, I would have broken my violin and abandoned music forever."" While he claimed he composed the sonata in 1713, scholars think it was likely composed as"
"they include the somber ""Vaporul morții"" (""The Ship of Death"") and ""Visul fatal"" (""The Fatal Dream""). Likewise, the piece titled ""Imnul lui Satan"" (""Satan's Hymn"") was placed by critics in connection with ""Les Litanies de Satan"" (part of Baudelaire's ""Les Fleurs du mal""), but, Vianu argues, the source of Macedonski's satanic themes may have been lodged in his own vision of the world. This interest also reflected in his 1893 ""Saul"", where Cincinat Pavelescu's contribution is supposedly minimal. Echoing satanic themes, Ernest Legouvé's dramatic version of the ""Medea"" myth (which Macedonski translated at some point in his life) and the"
"Violin sonata in G minor (HWV 368) The Violin sonata in G minor (HWV 368) is a work for violin and keyboard (harpsichord) that was originally thought to have been composed by George Frideric Handel. Modern scholars however believe it doubtful that the work was composed by Handel, and have labelled it as ""spurious"". The work is also referred to as ""Opus 1 No. 10"", and was first published in 1732 by Walsh. Other catalogues of Handel's music have referred to the work as HG xxvii,37; and HHA iv/4,28. Both the Walsh edition and the Chrysander edition indicate that the"
"which he was unable to compare with anything he had ever heard. Tartini, two years later, tried to reproduce the sound in his ""Devil's Trill Sonata"". Tartini presented the violin to his pupil, Signor Salvini. According to a reminiscence of a certain von Krockow, who met the Polish violinist Karol Lipiński in Dresden in 1849, the young Lipinski, provided with a letter of recommendation from Louis Spohr, met Salvini in Milan, probably at the end of his concert tour (1817-18). After Lipinski performed for Salvini, the teacher asked to see his violin, which he then smashed to pieces against the"
"claiming that he unknowingly sold his soul to the Devil. ""Variation upon variation,"" he cries at one point, ""but which variation leads to salvation and which to damnation? Music is a question for which there is no answer."" Paganini is portrayed as having killed three of his lovers and sinking repeatedly into poverty, prison, and drink. Each time he is ""rescued"" by the Devil who appears in different guises, returning Paganini's violin so he can continue playing. In the end, Paganini's salvation—administered by a god-like Clockmaker—turns out to be imprisonment in a large bottle where he plays his music for"
"Ave Satani ""Ave Satani"" is the theme song to the film ""The Omen"" (1976) composed by Jerry Goldsmith. ""The Omen"" won the Academy Award for Best Original Score, with ""Ave Satani"" nominated for Best Original Song, one of the few foreign language (Latin) songs ever to be nominated. The Latin title of ""Ave Satani"" (correct: ""Ave Satana"") translates to ""Hail Satan"" in English. In an interview, Goldsmith says that his idea was to create a kind of Satanic version of a Gregorian chant and came up with ideas while talking with the London choir-master of the orchestra who was helping"
"of keys came into use. The Devil is featured as a character in many musical representations from the Middle Ages to modern times. Hildegard of Bingen's 11th-century ""Ordo Virtutum"" features him, as do several baroque oratorios by composers such as Carissimi and Alessandro Scarlatti. During the 19th century, Gounod's ""Faust"", in which the Devil goes by the name Mephistopheles, was a staple of opera houses around the world. Highly virtuosic violin music was sometimes associated with the Devil. Tartini's ""Devil's Trill"" sonata and Paganini's ""Devil's Laughter"" caprice are examples. The theme is taken up by Stravinsky in the ""Devil's Dance"""
"The choir master's Latin contains a number of errors. Below are the Latin phrases which are repeated throughout the music, with their intended meaning, and a more correct Latin version: Ave Satani ""Ave Satani"" is the theme song to the film ""The Omen"" (1976) composed by Jerry Goldsmith. ""The Omen"" won the Academy Award for Best Original Score, with ""Ave Satani"" nominated for Best Original Song, one of the few foreign language (Latin) songs ever to be nominated. The Latin title of ""Ave Satani"" (correct: ""Ave Satana"") translates to ""Hail Satan"" in English. In an interview, Goldsmith says that his"
"However Denis Arnold, in the ""New Oxford Companion to Music"", suggests that the nickname was already applied early in the medieval music itself: It seems first to have been designated as a ""dangerous"" interval when Guido of Arezzo developed his system of hexachords and with the introduction of B flat as a diatonic note, at much the same time acquiring its nickname of ""Diabolus in Musica"" (""the devil in music""). That original symbolic association with the devil and its avoidance led to Western cultural convention seeing the tritone as suggesting ""evil"" in music. However, stories that singers were excommunicated or"
"subtlety. Indeed, the nearly operatic histrionics on display are immensely enjoyable, for their camp value if nothing else."" La bambola di Satana La bambola di Satana ( Satan's Doll) is a 1969 Italian gothic horror film written and directed by Ferruccio Casapinta. When her uncle dies, Elisabeth goes back to her family's castle to hear the reading of his will. Her boyfriend Jack suspects there is a plot afoot to steal Elisabeth's inheritance and keeps a close eye on her. She learns the castle is said to be haunted, and her relatives try to get her to sell it cheaply,"
"and released under the title ""Filipp Traum"" (Philipp Traum is the name Satan comes to use amongst humans; Traum being the German word for dream). Kevin Malone's opera ""Mysterious 44"" is inspired by the work. The première, performed by Manchester Opera Project with a narrated introduction and conclusion by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, was at the residence of the Hallé Orchestra at St Peter's Church, Ancoats, Manchester, on 24 May 2014. Paine-Duneka text No. 44, ""The Mysterious Stranger"" ""The Mysterious Stranger"" Manuscripts Secondary sources The Mysterious Stranger The Mysterious Stranger is a novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain."
"Sonata-Fantaisie in G-sharp minor (Scriabin) Alexander Scriabin's Sonate-Fantaisie in G-sharp minor (or Sonata-Fantaisie) was composed in 1886, when he was fourteen. It was dedicated to Natalya Sekerina, the sweetheart of his adolescence. A portentous introduction leads to a gentle, idyllic first movement highly reminiscent of Chopin in its flow of melody. The opening ""Andante"" gives way to a more agitated sonata movement. The cadence theme, especially on its return where it is accompanied by simple chords rather than flowing accompaniment figures, has a touch of a mazurka about it. The development section, with its broken tenths in the left hand"
"The Ghost Sonata The Ghost Sonata () is a play in three acts by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg. Written in 1907, it was first produced at Strindberg's Intimate Theatre in Stockholm on 21 January 1908. Since then, it has been staged by such notable directors as Max Reinhardt, Olof Molander, Roger Blin, and Ingmar Bergman. Bergman directed it four times: in 1941, 1954, 1973, and 2000. Strindberg took the title from Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, which he called `The Gespenster Sonata', and also Piano Trio No. 4 in D major, known as the `Ghost Trio'."
"Vol. 3, No. 4). The secondary theme may also represent Beatrice, as it is interspersed within chromatic areas, similar to the character's appearances in hell. The piece ends with a rapid chromatic octave section that when played at speed seems to split into three distinct themes, reflecting the three heads of Satan in Dante's ""Inferno"". Dante Sonata Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata (French for ""After a Reading of Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata""; also known as the ""Dante"" Sonata) is a piano sonata in one movement, completed by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt in 1849. It was first published"
"Piano Sonata No. 1 (Scriabin) The Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 6, by Alexander Scriabin, was the third of twelve piano sonatas that he composed. It was completed in 1892. The key of the sonata is the dark key of F minor. The music is emotionally charged as much of the music was written after Scriabin had damaged his right hand through excessive piano playing. Scriabin's very first sonata, one movement in G sharp minor (companion movements have not been found), was only published posthumously and the second, in E flat minor, was condensed and rewritten to"
"The Devil's Violinist The Devil's Violinist is a 2013 film based on the life story of the 19th-century Italian violinist and composer Niccolò Paganini. The film chronicles the life of Italian violinist and composer Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso in the early 19th Century. It begins with his youth as a childhood violinist pushed by his demanding father through his beginnings in Italy and then to his performances and acclaim in London under the guidance of the mysterious Urbani. Filming took place in Germany, Austria and Italy. Violinist David Garrett performs many of Paganini's pieces throughout"
"Lipinski Stradivarius The Lipinski Stradivarius is an antique violin constructed in 1715 by the Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, during Stradivari's ""golden period"" between 1700 and 1720. There are fewer than 650 extant Stradivarius violins in the world today, and the Lipinski is considered to be a particularly fine example. In 2012, it was appraised at $5 million USD. The earlier history of ""The Lipinski"" is unclear; Italian violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini is the first reputed owner. Tartini, who in 1713 experienced a dream in which he allowed the devil to play his violin, heard a beautiful sonata"
"La bambola di Satana La bambola di Satana ( Satan's Doll) is a 1969 Italian gothic horror film written and directed by Ferruccio Casapinta. When her uncle dies, Elisabeth goes back to her family's castle to hear the reading of his will. Her boyfriend Jack suspects there is a plot afoot to steal Elisabeth's inheritance and keeps a close eye on her. She learns the castle is said to be haunted, and her relatives try to get her to sell it cheaply, but she hesitates. Later she is kidnapped and brought to a dungeon where she is tortured by a"
"extending basses and highly expressive and effective chromatic modulations over a rather uniform thematic basis. The untitled ""Presto con leggierezza"" in A major was composed in 1834 as a gift for Pierre Wolff and published in Geneva in 1918. Sometimes known as Prelude No. 26, the piece is very short and generally bright in tone. A further prelude exists in E minor and has been subtitled ""Devil's Trill"" by Jeffrey Kallberg, a professor of music history at the University of Pennsylvania. Kallberg gave it this nickname for its similarities to Giuseppe Tartini's violin sonata known as ""The Devil's Trill"", Tartini"
"extant. In 1897, he sketched a few pages of a Tarantella to complete the suite, but he was committed to an insane asylum before he could finish it. In summary, all that remains of the projected suite is the ""Italian Serenade"". Throughout his time in the asylum, where he remained for the rest of his life, he planned to complete the suite, but this never eventuated. Wolf died in February 1903. The ""Italian Serenade"" is quite short, taking only about 7 minutes, and has a lilting and varied theme, played over a pizzicato figure. The main theme is said to"
"movement includes several deceptive cadences, before returning once again to a tonic theme similar to the beginning. A crisp, quick, highly decorated bravura follows, preceding a brief cantabile slow movement, said to signify Tartini's dream state. The last movement, technically difficult, begins fast, before dissolving into repeated, modular violin melody over an intensifying accompaniment. This leads to a slow chromatic theme, followed by more sequences of the two themes. The source of the sonata's nickname is a passage where the violinist trills while simultaneously playing arpeggiated triads. The bravura cadenza that is frequently played was composed by Fritz Kreisler. The"
"Elisabetta Premazore, a woman his father would have disapproved of because of her lower social class and age difference. Unfortunately, Elisabetta was a favorite of the powerful Cardinal Giorgio Cornaro, who promptly charged Tartini with abduction. Tartini fled Padua to go to the monastery of St. Francis in Assisi, where he could escape prosecution. While there, Tartini took up playing the violin. Legend says when Tartini heard Francesco Maria Veracini's playing in 1716, he was impressed by it and dissatisfied with his own skill. He fled to Ancona and locked himself away in a room to practise, according to Charles"
"Violin sonata in F major (HWV 370) The Violin sonata in F major (HWV 370) is a work for violin and keyboard (harpsichord) that was originally thought to have been composed by George Frideric Handel. Modern scholars however believe it doubtful that the work was composed by Handel, and have labelled it as ""spurious"". The work is also referred to as ""Opus 1 No. 12"", and was first published in 1732 by Walsh. Other catalogues of Handel's music have referred to the work as HG xxvii,42; and HHA iv/4,40. Both the Walsh edition and the Chrysander edition indicate that the"
"a popular lecturer and a fierce critic of literature and society. He was an atheist, whose political views were vehemently hostile to Christianity generally and the Catholic Church in particular. I know neither truth of God nor peace with the Vatican or any priests. They are the real and unaltering enemies of Italy. he said in his later years. This anti-clerical revolutionary vehemence is prominently showcased in one famous poem, the deliberately blasphemous and provocative ""Inno a Satana"" (or ""Hymn to Satan"".) The poem was composed in 1863 as a dinner party toast, published in 1865, then republished in 1869"
"used in John Milton's poem ""Paradise Lost"", published in 1667, referring to Satan, who is viewed as the embodiment of evil. It is an English translation of the Latin phrase ""princeps tenebrarum"", which occurs in the ""Acts of Pilate"", written in the fourth century, in the 11th-century hymn ""Rhythmus de die mortis"" by Pietro Damiani, and in a sermon by Bernard of Clairvaux from the 12th century. The phrase also occurs in ""King Lear"" by William Shakespeare (c. 1606), Act III, Scene IV, l. 14: 'The prince of darkness is a gentleman."" Priests and pastors of the Roman Catholic, Eastern"
"say that just about the sweetest music to me is when I call, 'pull,' the old gun barks, and the referee in perfect key announces, 'dead'."" In his 1902 novel ""The Fifth String"", a young violinist made a deal with the Devil for a magic violin with five strings. The first four strings of the violin excited the emotions of Pity, Hope, Love and Joy. The fifth string would cause the player's own death once played. When the violinist was unable to win the love of the woman he desired, he played upon the death string at what would be"
"Caprice No. 13 (Paganini) Caprice No. 13, nicknamed ""Devil's Laughter"" or ""Devil's Chuckle"", is one of Niccolò Paganini's renowned 24 Caprices for Solo Violin. It is the only one of the suite that is in the key of B-flat major. This solo violin piece starts out with scale like double-stopped passages at a moderate speed. The second part consists of high speed runs that exercise left hand flexibility and position shifting, and right hand high speed string changing and detache bowing. The piece then repeats back to the beginning and ends right before reaching the second part for the second"
"time. Caprice No. 13 (Paganini) Caprice No. 13, nicknamed ""Devil's Laughter"" or ""Devil's Chuckle"", is one of Niccolò Paganini's renowned 24 Caprices for Solo Violin. It is the only one of the suite that is in the key of B-flat major. This solo violin piece starts out with scale like double-stopped passages at a moderate speed. The second part consists of high speed runs that exercise left hand flexibility and position shifting, and right hand high speed string changing and detache bowing. The piece then repeats back to the beginning and ends right before reaching the second part for the"
"composers such as Igor Stravinsky and Jean Sibelius, held Quiroga's artistry in great regard. Guilhermina Suggia, the Portuguese cellist (and one-time companion of Pablo Casals), described his playing of Tartini's ""Devil's Trill Sonata"" as ""marvellous and flawless"". Quiroga was also a composer of two violin concertos, sets of variations, studies and smaller violin pieces, and cadenzas to major concertos from the core repertoire. He was the first to extensively use Galician nationalistic folklore as the basis of classical music compositions, and he was also a respected caricaturist and portraitist in oil and charcoal. Quiroga has not had the ongoing recognition"