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

332 76. Tartini to G.B. Martini I have received a most benevolent letter from Your Reverence, which informs me of the undertaking of the examination of my treatise by the Most Illustrious Signor Dottor Balbi, to whom I increasingly convey my respects, obligations and thanks. Your Reverence, who benevolently assists in the examination, although the treatise is ultimately directed outside practical music, shall nonetheless find your presence and authority to be necessary from time to time to confirm those practical musical matters mentioned from time to time. So I beg you even more to give your assistance until the end of the examination. In the meantime here we have the consolation of enjoying, in Signor Antonio Raff, the union of two angels, manners and perfect music, in the same person. He is not loved here, he is adored; and he deserves it. I am the one who has hitherto enjoyed him least of all, because of my usual pains, which have troubled me for a whole month, and I am not at all in health. I heard him at the Santo, where he sang for a service. I sincerely confess that I have not yet heard singing of such quality. May God be blessed, as he has granted such a gift to a man, and may the teacher who instructed him be blessed. I hope that soon I shall be able to count on my legs. I shall no longer abandon him, either during the day or at night, and I wish to be satisfied, if possible. Signor Don Antonio reveres you most humbly and cordially, and I, conveying to you my most cordial regards, remain Your Most Reverend Father’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 2 July 1751 77. Tartini to G.B. Martini I have neither sufficient words nor sufficient concepts to make Your Reverence understand the infinite and shared pleasure received fromSignor Antonio’s most perfect music. For my part I have thanked and thank God for being alive, and subsequently for having assured me that the true manner of singing is not lost in present times (which are, generally speaking, quite grim); on the contrary, it is perfectly restored in this most worthy man, in whom one is not able to tell musical virtue and manners apart, as two excellent things in the highest degree. The common effect which really