The pilot initiative called "Wrong Tartini", promoted on 29. June 2024 in Trieste as part of the TARTINI BIS project as a workshop for tourism operators active in the cultural field, aroused great interest and high level of satisfaction. This particular combination of music, history, and entrepreneurship, took shape as a varied programme that involved participants in a series of activities inspired primarily by the figure of Giuseppe Tartini, but also by the cultural and historical heritage of Trieste.
Presented as a tourist-cultural proposal in the name of duality, the workshop took place in two places, the Tartini Conservatory and the Carlo Schmidl Theatre Museum, offering two musical moments and two guided tours.
The tour operators were first able to visit the Tartini Room, set up at the Conservatory, where various extremely unique and rare Tartini memorabilia are kept. Subsequently, they were invited to enjoy the first musical interlude, which consisted of two sonatas by Tartini, played in the "right" way, that is, with antique instruments and respecting a historically-informed practice. The audience was delighted by Francesco D’Orazio on the baroque violin and Giorgio Tabacco on the cymbal.
The evening then continued at the Schmidl Museum, where the participants were presented with the life and work of Carlo Schmidl, who founded the museum a century ago. A publisher, art collector, and an exponent of the frontier reality, as Tartini also was, Schmidl is also directly linked to the virtuoso native of Pirano, having published some editions of his music.
These are editions, however, that today's historically-informed musical practices of eighteenth-century music consider as wrong, so the second part of the meeting was dedicated to the "Wrong Tartini". D'Orazio, this time on the modern violin, accompanied by Matteo di Bella on the piano, gave a taste of Tartini's music in a different spirit, which tells us about the history of its reception, and of how Tartini's music was consumed over a century ago.
The initiative, the birth-child of Giulio D'Angelo, professor and coordinator of the Centre for Documentation and Tartini studies "Bruno and Michèle Polli", ended with the tasting of a cocktail created specifically for this event. Conceived by the "alchemists" of the Spiriti occulti distillery and christened "Wrong Tartini", it was inspired by the works of the composer and thus offers a "third sound" of taste.
