Tartini, Giuseppe
(1692–1770)
GIUSEPPE TARTINITARTINI, GIUSEPPEGIUSEPPE TARTINI [* 1692-† 1770] That so eminent a practical musician as Giuseppe Tartini could involve himself in so convoluted a theoretical system as that which he created is among the more curious facts in the history of music. Of course, RAMEAU was also wearing a scientist's hat in his musical speculations, though his influence upon Tartini was not particularly significant. One senses that Tartini purposefully couched his notions in abstruse language and…