The Devil’s Trill sonata is renowned for both its intense difficulty and infamous legend. The composer, Giuseppe Tartini, dreamt one night that the devil was sitting at the end of his bed, playing a beautifully elaborate sonata. Tartini composed the Devil’s Trill as an attempt to recall the music. There are many factors in Giuseppe Tartini’s life that may have influenced this significant dream, including religious pressure and familial tension. Tartini composed this sonata with deliberate intent to sound beautiful and virtuosic. The concept of the devil being depicted with sympathy, instead of as a symbol of evil, was an artistic concept of the Enlightenment. This paper explores how social, religious, and artistic elements of the time influenced Tartini’s inspiration for creating the Devil’s Trill.