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Domenico Scarlatti was born in [[Naples]], [[Kingdom of Naples]], in 1685, the same year as [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] and [[George Frideric Handel]]. He was the sixth of ten children of the composer and teacher [[Alessandro Scarlatti]]. Domenico's older brother [[Pietro Filippo Scarlatti|Pietro Filippo]] was also a musician. |
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He probably first studied music under his father. Other composers who may have been his early teachers include [[Gaetano Greco]], [[Francesco Gasparini]], and [[Bernardo Pasquini]], all of whom may have influenced his musical style. He was appointed a composer and organist at the royal chapel in Naples in 1701. In 1704, he revised [[Carlo Francesco Pollarolo]]'s opera ''Irene'' for performance at Naples. Soon afterwards, his father sent him to [[Venice]]. After this, nothing is known of Scarlatti's life until 1709, when he went to Rome in the service of the exiled Polish queen [[Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien|Marie Casimire]]. He met [[Thomas Roseingrave]] there. Scarlatti was already an eminent [[harpsichord]]ist: there is a story of a trial of skill with [[George Frideric Handel]] at the palace of [[Pietro Ottoboni (cardinal)|Cardinal Ottoboni]] in Rome where he was judged possibly superior to Handel on that instrument, although inferior on the [[organ (music)|organ]]. Later in life, he was known to cross himself in veneration when speaking of Handel's skill. In Rome, Scarlatti composed several operas for Queen Casimira'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 [[Her Majesty's Theatre|King's Theatre]]. |
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According to Vicente Bicchi ([[Nuncio|Papal Nuncio]] at the time), Domenico Scarlatti arrived in [[Lisbon]] on 29 November 1719. There he taught music to the Portuguese princess [[Barbara of Portugal|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 Sevilla, staying for four years and gaining a knowledge of [[flamenco]]. In 1733 he went to Madrid as music master to Princess Maria Barbara, who had married into the Spanish royal house. The Princess later became Queen of Spain. Scarlatti remained in the country for the remaining twenty-five years of his life, and had five children there. After the death of his first wife in 1742, he married a Spaniard, Anastasia Maxarti Ximenes. Among his compositions during his time in Madrid were a number of the 555 keyboard sonatas for which he is best known. |
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Scarlatti befriended the [[castrato]] singer [[Farinelli]], a fellow Neapolitan also enjoying royal patronage in Madrid. The musicologist [[Ralph Kirkpatrick]] commented that [[Farinelli]]'s correspondence provides "most of the direct information about Scarlatti that has transmitted itself to our day." Domenico 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, in Madrid, but his grave no longer exists. |
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Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style. Like his renowned father Alessandro Scarlatti he composed in a variety of musical forms, although today he is known mainly for his 555 keyboard sonatas.
Life and career
Cason parks taught scarlatti 903 243 3387
Music
Sonata in D minor K. 9, Allegretto
performed on a harpsichord by Martha Goldstein | |
Sonata in E major K. 20, Presto
performed on a harpsichord by Martha Goldstein | |
Sonata in B minor K. 27, Allegro
performed on a piano by Raymond Smullyan | |
Sonata in F Minor K. 69
performed on a spinet by Ulrich Metzner | |
Sonata in B Minor K. 87
performed on a digital harpsichord by Membeth | |
Sonata in C major K. 159, Allegro
performed on a piano by Veronica van der Knaap | |
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Sonata in E major K. 380, Andante comodo
performed on a piano by Raymond Smullyan | |
Sonata in F Minor K. 466
performed on a digital harpsichord by Membeth | |
Sonata in E major K. 531, Allegro
performed on a piano by Raymond Smullyan |
Only a small fraction 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"). These were rapturously received throughout Europe, and were championed by the foremost English writer on music of the eighteenth century, Charles Burney.
The many sonatas which were unpublished during Scarlatti's lifetime have appeared in print irregularly in the two and a half centuries since. Scarlatti has attracted notable admirers, including Frédéric Chopin, Johannes Brahms, Béla Bartók, Dmitri Shostakovich, Heinrich Schenker, Vladimir Horowitz, Emil Gilels, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and Marc-André Hamelin.
Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas are single movements, mostly in binary form, and mostly written for the harpsichord or the earliest pianofortes. (There are four for organ, and a few for small instrumental group). Some of them display harmonic audacity in their use of discords, and also unconventional modulations to remote keys.
Other distinctive attributes of Scarlatti's style are the following:
- The influence of Iberian (Portuguese and Spanish) folk music. An example is Scarlatti's use of the Phrygian mode and other tonal inflections more or less alien to European art music. Many of Scarlatti's figurations and dissonances are suggestive of the guitar.
- A formal device in which each half of a sonata leads to a pivotal point, which the Scarlatti scholar Ralph 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).
Ralph Kirkpatrick produced an edition of the sonatas in 1953, and the numbering from this edition is now nearly always used – the Kk. or K. number. Previously, the numbering commonly used was from the 1906 edition compiled by the Neapolitan pianist Alessandro Longo (L. numbers). Kirkpatrick's numbering is chronological, while Longo's ordering is a result of his grouping the sonatas into "suites". In 1967 the Italian musicologist Giorgio Pestelli published a revised catalogue (using P. numbers), which corrected what he considered to be some anachronisms.[1]
Aside from his many sonatas, he composed a quantity of operas and cantatas, symphonias, and liturgical pieces. Well known works include the Stabat Mater of 1715 and the Salve Regina of 1757, which is thought to be his last composition.
References
- Kirkpatrick, Ralph (1953). Domenico Scarlatti. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-02708-0.
- Domenico Scarlatti. Sixty Sonatas in Two volumes, edited in chronological order from the manuscripts and earliest printed sources with a preface by Ralph Kirkpatrick, New York, G. Schirmer, 1953.
- D. Scarlatti. Sonates, in 11 volumes, ed. Kenneth Gilbert after the Venice manuscripts, Paris, Heugel, coll. « Le Pupitre », from 1975 to 1984.
- Domenico Scarlatti. Complete Keyboard Works, in facsimile from the manuscript (Parma) and printed sources, rev. Ralph Kirkpatrick, New York, Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1971.
- Scarlatti, Domenico. Sonate per cembalo del Cavalier Dn. Domenico Scarlatti. Complete facsimile of the Venice manuscripts in 15 vol. Archivum Musicum: Monumenta Musicae Revocata, 1/I-XV. Florence, 1985-1992.
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External links
- The Mutopia Project has compositions by Domenico Scarlatti
- Converter for Scarlatti's Works Number
- Associazione Domenico Scarlatti
- John Sankey: Keyboard Tuning of Domenico Scarlatti
- John Sankey: Complete edition, harpsichord, downloadable recordings in MIDI
- The Life of Domenico Scarlatti
- Scarlatti Domenico – A new look at the keyboard sonatas; complete catalogue including newly discovered works
- "The mercurial maestro of Madrid" by Robert White, 20 July 2007, The Guardian
- 538 Piano Sonatas (mp3 files)
- Piano Society – A short biography and some free recordings in MP3 format, performed by Roberto Carnevale, Chase Coleman, Graziella Concas, and Knut Erik Jensen
Free scores
- Free scores by Domenico Scarlatti at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Sheet music for K.1 to K.176 John Sankey edition
- www.kreusch-sheet-music.net harpsichord sonatas by Scarlatti
- Free scores by Domenico Scarlatti in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- Sheet music engraved by Sebastiano Vigna