Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, also known as Domingo or Doménico Scarlatti (26 October 1685-23 July 1757), was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the

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. Like his renowned father Alessandro Scarlatti, he composed in a variety of musical forms, although today he is known mainly for his 545 keyboard sonatas. He spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families.

Life and career

Scarlatti was born in

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, Kingdom of Naples, belonging to the Spanish Crown. He was born in 1685, the same year as

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and George Frideric Handel. He was the sixth of ten children of the composer and teacher Alessandro Scarlatti. His older brother Pietro Filippo was also a musician. Scarlatti first studied music under his father. Other composers who may have been his early teachers include

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, and

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, all of whom may have influenced his musical style.

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brought Scarlatti's sonatas into the classical style by editing what is known to be their first publication. Scarlatti was appointed as a composer and

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at the royal chapel in Naples in 1701. In 1703 he revised

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's opera ''Irene'' for performance at Naples. Soon after, his father sent him to

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. After this, nothing is known of his life until 1709, when he went to

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and entered the service of the exiled Polish queen Marie Casimir. It was there he met

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. Scarlatti was already an accomplished harpsichordist; there is a story of a trial of skill with George Frideric Handel at the palace of

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in Rome, where Scarlatti was judged possibly superior to Handel on the harpsichord, although inferior on the organ. Later in life, he was known to cross himself in veneration when speaking of Handel's skill. While in Rome, Scarlatti composed several operas for Queen Casimir's private theatre. He was ''Maestro di Cappella'' at St. Peter's from 1715 to 1719. In 1719 he travelled to London to direct his opera '' Narciso'' at the King's Theatre. According to Vicente Bicchi,

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in Portugal at the time, Scarlatti arrived in Lisbon on 29 November 1719. There he taught music to the Portuguese princess Maria Magdalena Barbara. He left Lisbon on 28 January 1727 for Rome, where he married Maria Caterina Gentili on 6 May 1728. In 1729 he moved to

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, staying for four years. In 1733, he went to Madrid as a music master to Princess Maria Barbara, who had married into the Spanish royal house. She later became Queen of Spain. Scarlatti remained in Spain for the remaining 25 years of his life and had five children there. After his wife died in 1739, he married a Spaniard, Anastasia Maxarti Ximenes. Among his compositions during his time in Madrid were most of the 555 keyboard sonatas for which he is best known. Scarlatti befriended the castrato singer Farinelli, a fellow Neapolitan also enjoying royal patronage in Madrid. Musicologist and harpsichordist

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commented that Farinelli's correspondence provides "most of the direct information about Scarlatti that has transmitted itself to our day". Scarlatti died in Madrid at the age of 71. His residence on Calle Leganitos is designated with a historical plaque, and his descendants still live in Madrid. He was buried at a convent there, but his grave no longer exists. Minor planet

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is named in his honour.

Music

Only a small number of Scarlatti's compositions were published during his lifetime. Scarlatti himself seems to have overseen the publication in 1738 of the most famous collection, his 30 ''Essercizi'' (Exercises). They were well received throughout Europe and were championed by the foremost English writer on music of the eighteenth century, Charles Burney. The many sonatas unpublished during Scarlatti's lifetime have appeared in print irregularly in the past two and a half centuries. He has attracted notable admirers, including Béla Bartók,

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, Pieter-Jan Belder,

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, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy,

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, Francis Poulenc, Olivier Messiaen,

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, Scott Ross (the first performer to record all 555 sonatas),

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, András Schiff and Dmitri Shostakovich. Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas are single movements, mostly in binary form, and some in early

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, and mostly written for harpsichord or the earliest

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s. (There are four for the organ, and a few for the small instrumental groups). Some display harmonic audacity in their use of discords, and unconventional modulations to remote keys. Other distinctive attributes of his music are: *The influence of Iberian (Portuguese and Spanish) folk music. An example is his use of the Phrygian mode and other tonal inflections more or less alien to European art music. Many of his figurations and dissonances are suggestive of the guitar. *The influence of the Spanish guitar can be seen in notes being played repeatedly. *A formal device where each half of a sonata leads to a pivotal point, which Kirkpatrick termed "the crux", and which is sometimes underlined by a pause or fermata. Before the crux, Scarlatti sonatas often contain their main thematic variety, and after the crux, the music makes more use of repetitive figurations as it modulates away from the home key (in the first half) or back to the home key (in the second half). *Its tendency to be in the ''galant'' style. Kirkpatrick produced an edition of the sonatas in 1953, and the numbering from this edition—the Kk. or K. number—is now nearly always used. Previously, the numbering commonly used was from the 1906 edition compiled by Neapolitan pianist

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(L. numbers). Kirkpatrick's numbering is chronological, while Longo's ordering is a result of his arbitrarily grouping the sonatas into "suites". In 1967 the Italian musicologist

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published a revised catalog (using P. numbers), which corrected what he considered to be some anachronisms, and added some sonatas missing from Kirkpatrick's edition. Although the exact composition dates for these surviving sonatas are not known, Kirkpatrick concluded that they might all have been composed late in Scarlatti's career (after 1735), with most of them possibly written after the composer's 67th birthday. Aside from his many sonatas, Scarlatti composed several operas, cantatas, and liturgical pieces. Well-known works include the ''Stabat Mater'' of 1715, and the ''Salve Regina'' of 1756, which is thought to be his last composition.

Selected discography

Complete works

* ''L'Œuvre pour clavier'', Scott Ross (1988, 34 CDs Erato/

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) * ''Domenico Scarlatti: The Complete Sonatas'',

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, harpsichord & fortepiano (2001–2005, 39 CDs in 7 volumes

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NI 1725/NI 1741) . * ''Keyboard Sonatas'', Emilia Fadini, Ottavio Dantone, Sergio Vartolo, Marco Farolfi,

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..., harpsichord, fortepiano, organ (1999–2012, 12 CDs Stradivarius) – in progress * ''Keyboard Sonatas'', Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord & fortepiano (2012, 36 CDs

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) * ''Keyboard Sonatas'', Carlo Grante, Bösendorfer Imperial piano (2009–2020, 35 CDs in 6 volumes Music & Arts)

Piano recitals

* ''2 Sonatas'': Sonata K. 9 and Sonata K. 380 –

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, piano (20 February and 27 September 1947, EMI / 12 CDs Hänssler PH17011) * ''4 Sonatas'' : Sonata K. 1, Sonata K. 87, Sonata K. 193, and Sonata K. 386 –

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, piano (? 1947, BBC / « Inédits Haskil » Tahra TAH 389 / TAH 4025) * ''11 Sonatas'': Sonata K. 1, Sonate K. 35, Sonata K. 87, Sonata K. 132, Sonata K. 193, Sonata K. 247, Sonata K. 322, Sonata K. 386, Sonata K. 437, Sonata K. 515, Sonata K. 519 – Clara Haskil, piano (October 1951, Westminster/ DG 471 214-2) * ''3 Sonatas'': Sonata K. 87, Sonata K. 193, and Sonata K. 386 – Clara Haskil, piano (October 1951,

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) * ''The Siena Pianoforte'': 6 Scarlatti sonatas (and 3 sonatas of Mozart) –

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, Siena piano (1955, Counterpoint/Esoteric / Everest Records CPT 53000) * ''37 Piano Sonatas'' :

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/Sony Classical) * ''33 Sonatas'' :

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, piano (1979, 1981, 1984, EMI) * ''18 sonatas'' :

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, piano (27–28 November 1987, EMI CDC 7 49078 2) * ''15 sonatas'' :

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, piano (September 1991, DG) * ''Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas'' :

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, piano (October 1994,

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5181862) * ''16 Sonatas'' :

, piano (1995, EMI) * ''20 Sonatas :''

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, ''piano (18 and 28 September 1999, Appian Publications & Recordings PR '' * ''14 Sonatas'': Christian Zacharias, piano (June 2002, MDG 34011622) * ''18 Sonatas'' : Racha Arodaky, piano (17–21 July 2005,

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, piano (2005, BIS) * ''

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joue Scarlatti'' : 18 sonatas (30 August/3 September 2010,

) * ''Scarlatti: 18 Sonatas'':

, piano (2016, BIS) * ''Scarlatti: 52 Sonatas'': Lucas Debargue, piano (2019,

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)

Fortepiano recitals

* ''Sonate per cembalo, 1742'',

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, harpsichord & fortepiano (7–9 March 2000, March 2001, October 2002, 3 CD Tactus) * ''Sonates – Una nuova inventione per Maria Barbara'', Aline Zylberajch, fortepiano after

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(2005, Ambronay)

Harpsichord recitals

* ''Sonatas for Harpsichord'',

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(1934, 1939, 1940,

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)'' * ''Keyboard Sonatas'', Fernando Valenti (the 1950s, Westminster / 3 CDs Millenium MCA Universal, rereleased. 1998) '' * ''Keyboard Sonatas'', Fernando Valenti (1951–1955, 11 CDs Pristine Audio, rereleased. 2006) '' * ''60 Harpsichord Sonatas'',

(1954, CBS SL 221 / 2 CD Urania, rerelease of 54 sonatas in 2004)'' * ''Harpsichord Sonatas'',

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, harpsichord (1964, Accord) * ''21 Harpsichord Sonatas'', Ralph Kirkpatrick (1966, 1971,

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, rereleased 2004)'' * ''10 Sonatas'', Gustav Leonhardt (1970, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi) * ''16 Harpsichord Sonatas'', Joseph Payne (1971, Turnabout) * ''Sonates pour clavecin'', Blandine Verlet (1975,

) * ''Sonates pour clavecin'', Blandine Verlet (1976,

) * ''14 Harpsichord Sonatas'', Gustav Leonhardt (1979, Seon/Sony) * ''Harpsichord Sonatas'' –

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, Vincenzio harpsichord 1782 (August 1979, L'Oiseau-Lyre/Decca) * ''Harpsichord Sonatas'',

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(1981, CRD Records; rereleased in 1995) '' * ''Sonatas'', Trevor Pinnock (1987,

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) * ''12 Sonatas'', Colin Tilney (1988, Dorian) * ''Les plus belles sonatas'', Scott Ross (1988, Erato/Radio France) * ''Trente Sonates'', Rafael Puyana (1988, 2CD

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) * ''16 Sonatas'',

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(1988, Capriccio) * ''Sonatas'', Andreas Staier (December 1990, 26–28 October 1991, 2 CDs Deutsche Harmonia Mundi) * ''Sonatas'',

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(May 1991, « Reflexe » EMI) * ''22 sonates'',

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(June 1992, Astrée E 8502) * ''Cat Fugue and Sonatas for Harpsichord'', Elaine Comparone (27–28 August 1992, Lyrichord) * ''Sonatas'', Andreas Staier (December 1995,

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) * ''Sonates inédites, Fandango'', Mayako Soné (1994, Erato/

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) * ''Scarlatti High and Low – 16 dernières sonates pour clavecin'', Colin Tilney (1995, Music & Arts) * ''18 Sonatas'', Eiji Hashimoto, harpsichord (1996, Klavier) * ''15 sonates pour clavecin'',

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(1998,

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) * ''Sonates'', Pierre Hantaï (2002, 2004, 2005, 2016, 2017, 2019 6 CDs/

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Mirare) * ''Sonatas'', Elaine Thornburgh (2005, 2 CDs Lyrichord) * ''Duende (17 sonatas)'', Skip Sempé (with Olivier Fortin, second harpsichord) (2006, Paradizo) * ''16 Sonates'' –

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(2018,

Erato) * ''Zones'', Lillian Gordis (June 2019, Paraty PTY 919180)

Vocal music

* Scarlatti: Stabat Mater – Campra: Requiem.

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;

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, conductor (2020, Erato)

Notes

External links

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Associazione Domenico Scarlatti

Scarlatti Domenico – complete catalogue of 600 keyboard sonatas including newly discovered works and the latest biographical discoveries

"The mercurial maestro of Madrid"
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Piano sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti for listening and downloading
(Czech Radio Project) {{DEFAULTSORT:Scarlatti, Domenico 1685 births 1757 deaths 18th-century Italian composers 18th-century Italian male musicians 18th-century keyboardists 18th-century Neapolitan people Catholic liturgical composers Composers for harpsichord Italian Baroque composers Italian male classical composers Italian harpsichordists Italian expatriates in Portugal Italian expatriates in Spain Italian opera composers Male opera composers Musicians from Naples Musicians from Madrid Neapolitan school composers People of Sicilian descent