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?
Violin Sonata in G minor (Tartini) Violin Sonata in G minor (Tartini) The Violin Sonata in G minor, Bg.5, 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 typical performance lasts 15 minutes. Tartini allegedly told the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande that he had dreamed that the devil had appeared to him and had asked to be Tartini's servant. At the end of the music lesson, Tartini handed the devil his violin to test his
Violin Sonata in G minor (Tartini) 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