Giuseppe Tartini - Lettere e documenti / Pisma in dokumenti / Letters and Documents - Volume / Knjiga / Volume II

322 supposition, because I see the consequence is different, and things being as in fact they are, innocently and unwillingly I have taken too many liberties with you. Forgive me for this, and with grace, as I am not to blame. I then thank you with all my heart for what you have tried to do for my student with the Lord Prince. Whether it is successful or not, does not depend on you; and it is sufficient for me to be sure, as I am, of your heartfelt care in favouring me for me to be ever more obliged towards you. I beg you to inform the Lord Prince, that when he has chosen, among the six concertos, those two or three that best suit him, if he finds in them any difficulty in the execution of the solos, may it be communicated to me by means of letter, in which it should be indicated in musical notes and accordingly expressed; because (with all the other parts remaining as they are) I shall change it for him in many ways to make the execution easier for him. I could not guess how far his skill, or rather his practice, on the violin extends. But since I have adopted, in the said concertos, a very fair standard with regard to the difficulty of execution, it may happen that, in spite of that, some things may turn out to be difficult for His Highness. In such cases, the remedy is that suggested, and so in the future I shall adjust in advance those compositions which shall be destined for him. Do me the favour of letting him know, and at the same time of confirming to him, that my intention is that of serving him without any interest whatsoever, with compositions of mine as long as I live, if he allows himself to be served, as I humbly entreat him to. With regard to the judgement arising from the compositions sent for His Majesty, both you and I should have foreseen it. It is impossible to write its expression; and if it were possible, it is not possible for someone who does not feel it in their soul, to execute it. Meanwhile, if there is a man in debt towards another man, that is myself towards you. May it please God that the fact gives me the opportunity of letting you know my infinite gratitude, but the distance of your status to mine is too great. May you preserve your protection for me, and I submit myself and remain as ever My Lord Count Patron and Lord’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 9 May 1750