Padre Martini and Giuseppe Tartini The busts kept at Bologna Biblioteca della Musica February was a month of archival research and Giulia Manfredini travelled first to Bologna and then to Ostiglia. Bologna Biblioteca della Musica is a true mine of treasures when researching about…

What archival materials can we find today in Padua that shed light on Tartini’s teaching activities? This was the question guiding Agnese’s first foray into the State Archive of Padua. The aim was to become familiar with the archive and to lay the groundwork for more systematic research in the…

Agnese Pavanello recently visited the Archive and Library of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, where the only known copy of Giuseppe Tartini’s manuscript Regola per bene accordare il violino is preserved.During the visit, she was able to examine the manuscript directly, take detailed measurements, and verify the watermark – an…

The Basel Tartinians team participated in the Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) international seminar held in Milan and organised by Cristina Scuderi, with the collaboration of the Graz team (Elisabetta Forlani and Nora Eder). The seminar, entitled “The Violin Schools in Eighteenth-Century Europe”, brought together participants from the universities of…

The next stop in October was Berkeley, California. The Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library holds a remarkable collection of music related to Tartini and his school, including a copy of the Regole per ben suonare il violino, of which we are preparing a digital edition. Cristina Cassia is mainly responsible for…

At the beginning of October, Giulia Manfredini and Agnese Pavanello visited the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin –  Preußischer Kulturbesitz, to conduct an in-depth study of manuscripts from the Tartinian school. The visit offered them the opportunity to engage closely with the physical characteristics of these documents: from watermarks and paper quality to handwriting…

«Con il signor prencipe per il mio scolare»Pupils, Patrons, Printers and Violin Culture in 18th-Century EuropeThe 18th century marked a transformative period for European violin culture, where the interplay of pedagogy, patronage, and music publishing fostered new forms of music practices and knowledge. The conference seeks to explore the multifaceted…

From left: Berthold Over, Carlo Licciulli, Kristina Richts-Matthaei, Giulio D’Angelo, Agnese Pavanello, Elisabetta Forlani, Cristina ScuderiOn 13–14 September 2025, Agnese, together with some members of the teams from Graz and Augsburg, attended the MerMEId workshop organized by the Conservatory of Trieste in collaboration with the Centro di studi…

One of the activities of July was Giulia Manfredini’s research trip to two key libraries in the region of Veneto, in Italy: the Biblioteca Bertoliana in Vicenza and the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice. The purpose of the trip was to consult musical manuscripts related to the 18th-century environment…