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Giuseppe Tartini

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Tartinian Italian genius violinist, music theorist, and composeris a great composer whose full legacy remains elusive, partly because his active years fell into a gap in music history. Although he left behind numerous masterpieces in his youth that showcased his virtuosic technique, in his later years he drew on his unparalleled sense of melody and, guided by his unique harmonic sensibility, turned toward music that was both clear and exquisitely beautifula trajectory that may share some parallels with the later career of Liszt, the Prince of the Piano. Couldnt we say that the fact the long-established early music label Ricercar has taken on this great composer head-on is a welcome new development in the early music scene? Published in 1734 by the Amsterdam publisher that had previously released Vivaldis *The Four Seasons* for the first time, this collection of 12 sonatas is a rich compilat