Giulio Meneghini’s concertoni from Giuseppe Tartini’s Opus I Sonatas : from private entertainment to genre paradigm

Pavanello, Agnese (author)

This article examines Giulio Meneghini’s reworking of six sonatas from Tartini’s Opus 1 into concertoni for four parts, performable as concerti grossi with soli and tutti. It explores the origins, dating and features of these arrangements, offering insight into the dissemination of Tartini’s music among learned amateurs and its connections to eighteenth-century per­formance practice and aesthetics.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Giuseppe Tartini, Giulio Meneghini, instrumental reworkings, eighteenth-cen-tury Paduan musical academies
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 23.12.2025
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 93-119
• Numbering: Vol. 61, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-179847
• ISSN: 0580-373X
• eISSN: 2350-4242
• DOI: 10.4312/mz.61.2.93-119
• Publication date in RUL: 25.02.2026

Record is a part of a proceedings

• Title: Contributions to Tartini studies
• COBISS.SI-ID: 269314051

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Muzikološki zbornik
• Shortened title: Muzik. zb.
• Publisher: Oddelek za muzikologijo Filozofske fakultete, Department of Musicology, University of Ljubljana, Oddelek za muzikologijo Filozofske fakultete, Department of Musicology, University of Ljubljana, Pedagoško-znanstvena enota za muzikologijo Filozofske fakultete, Department of Musicology, University of Ljubljana, Filozofska fakulteta, Oddelek za muzikologijo, Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 0580-373X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 16404226

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• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Concertoni Giulija Meneghinija iz Sonat Opus 1 Giuseppeja Tartinija : od zasebnega razvedrila do paradigme zvrsti

Abstract

Članek preučuje Meneghinijevo predelavo šestih sonat iz Tartinijevega Opusa 1 v v štiriglasne skladbe Concertoni, ki se lahko izvajajo kot concerti grossi s soli in tutti. Raziskuje izvor, datiranje in značilnosti teh priredb ter ponuja vpogled v širjenje Tartinijeve glasbe med izobraženimi amaterji ter njene povezave z izvajalsko prakso in estetiko 18. stoletja.

• Keywords: Giuseppe Tartini, Giulio Meneghini, instrumentalne predelave, glasbene akademije v Padovi v 18. stoletju