Among the most innovative outcomes of the TARTINI BIS project is the creation of simplified scores of Giuseppe Tartini’s works for youth orchestras.
The task of producing these scores was entrusted to the most talented and promising students of the two composition classes at the Conservatory of Trieste, as well as to cellist and collaborator of the Luigi Bon Foundation, Anna Molaro.
The challenge – and at the same time the most interesting and creative aspect of this activity – lay in selecting pieces suitable for simplification, so that they could be performed by ensembles of adolescents, while still preserving the integrity of Tartini’s compositional intent. Attention naturally focused on that part of Tartini’s corpus already intended for salon and amateur practice, such as the Sonate a tre and Sonate a quattro.
This work of reduction and simplification also stimulated analysis and reflection among the composition students on the figure of Giuseppe Tartini, guiding them toward practices of arrangement and orchestration that will be valuable in their future professional careers.
The scores are freely available online in the Tartini Junior section of the website discovertartini.eu.
Two workshops, organized in Koper-Capodistria by the Italian Union and in Tavagnacco by the Luigi Bon Foundation as part of the TARTINI BIS project, have already demonstrated how this editorial production can be an effective tool for introducing younger generations of musicians to the figure of Giuseppe Tartini, also through further presentations of these compositions in other schools and cultural institutions in Italy and Slovenia.
