Don Antonio VANDINI 1690-1773 Bolognese friar active in Padua as Giuseppe Tartini’s cellist and friend. Born around 1690 and hired at the Basilica del Santo in Padua on 9 June 1721. After a short spell as a cellist at Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, he became maestro di violoncello at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice from 27 September 1720 until 4 April 1721. Vandini possibly studied with cellist Giuseppe Maria Jacchini in Bologna, but no documents can confirm this. It would have been Vandini who insisted that Tartini follow him to Prague to participate in the grand celebrations for the coronation of Emperor Charles VI of Austria as king of Bohemia in June 1723. In Prague Tartini and Vandini met and collaborated with Johann Josepf Fux, cellist Antonio Caldara, and lutenist Sylvius Leopold Weiss, among many others. Upon completion of the festivities, Tartini and Vandini decided to remain in Prague and enter the service of the family of Count Kinsky. They also established musical contacts with Prince Lobkowitz and stayed in the Bohemian capital until 1726. Vandini was still living in Padua in 1770. The year of his death is unknown.
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