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

431 LETTERS Illustrious secretary of the court, Carlo Federico Palmrot, for the attention and cordial care shown towards him. I do not have the honour of knowing this gentleman, but I too declare myself obliged to him, being all too aware of the good that has come therefrom, and hence I take the liberty of most humbly imploring Your Excellency to inform him of my particular feelings of gratitude, which of the greatest sort I renew with all my heart to Your Excellency, and conveying to you with all of myself my most profound regards, with full deference I remain, Your Excellency’s most humble, devoted and obliged servant Giuseppe Tartini Padua, 8 May 1760 143. Tartini a Jean-Pierre Pagin 88 Padua, 14 December 1760 Having been honoured by the visit of these two gentlemen from Nuremberg, 89 by whom you will receive this open letter of mine; having been informed by them that their voyage will subsequently take them to Paris, I did not want to miss the opportunity to confirm to you, with this letter of mine, the continuation of that friendship which keeps me ever closer to your most worthy person, and to show my gratitude for the honour received by those two gentlemen who will be allowed to make the acquaintance of one, or rather of the most prestigious, of those whom I have had the good fortune to instruct in the violin, both for the value of his skills and for the many endearing qualities of which you are full. Given that you are with such a prince, at whose feet I bow profoundly, if you can be of benefit in some way to these two gentlemen, who undoubtedly come there to become acquainted with this grand world, please do it with your usual kindness, and for the sake of our cordial friendship, while together with my wife we bestow our most cordial respects on you and the lady your most worthy consort, I confirm myself as ever Monsieur’s most devoted, obliged and cordial servant Giuseppe Tartini 88 Pagin was one of Tartini’s favourite pupils. A Parisian, he studied in Padua at Tartini’s school in the 1730s and returned to Paris no later than 1747, the year in which P. Laujon mentions his activities in an orchestra in the service of Louis de Bourbon-Condé, count of Clermont. See L. Fay, “Pagin, Jean‑Pierre [André-Noël]”, in Ng, vol. 19; Wilcox, 2011. 89 Tartini refers to J.C. von Murr and J.B. Holzgebogen. See Petrobelli, 1992: p. 92.