Devil’s Sonata

The damn melody

A celestial symphony, interpreted
from hell…
The devil’s trill
• It’s known as the
devil’s trill.
• It’s a sonata for
violin in G minor.
• Executed by
Giuseppe Tartini.
Giuseppe Tartini

• Guiseppe Tarttini was born

in 1962 in Venetia and
died in 1770.
• He was a music.
• He was violinist Italian.
“The legend behind this sonata, told
by Tartini himself in a letter to his
friend, the French astronomer Jérôme
Lalande, …
Tartini challenged the devil to play a
romantic melody on his violin to test
his skills…”
“Some experts believe that Tartini
intends to tell the story of Lucifer: a
beginning where everything is calm and
harmony, when Lucifer was an angel…”