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	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Scarlatti Biography
		Scarlatti obviously enjoyed having the fastest fingers in Europe, and many of his works are centered upon the visual drama of his technique.
		The dynamics of Scarlatti's music are produced by the pluck and dissonance of pure-sounding strings, not by the volume dynamic of the pitch-blurred modern piano.
		Scarlatti's rapidly repeated notes (K.141) may be played smoothly on a harpsichord, with one finger as if they were half a trill, a technique essentially impossible on the piano.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/scarlatti_bio.html (991 words)

	Domenico Scarlatti: a concise biography
		Scarlatti was also a familiar figure at the weekly meetings of the Accademie Poetico-Musicali hosted by the indefatigable music-lover and entertainer Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, at which the finest musicians in Rome met and performed chamber music.
		At the time of their meeting, in 1708, they were both twenty-three, and were prevailed upon to compete together at the instigation and under the refereeship of Ottoboni; they were adjudged equal on the harpsichord, but Handel was considered the winner on the organ.
		Scarlatti accepted and in 1733 after a period in Seville (from 1729-33) he went to Madrid, where he lived until his death.
	www.baroquemusic.org /bqxdscarl.html (752 words)

	Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
		Scarlatti was a familiar figure at the weekly meetings of the Accademie Poetico-Musicali hosted by the music-loving Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni at which the finest musicians in Rome met and performed chamber music.
		Scarlatti's serenata, Applause genetliaco, was performed at the Portuguese Embassy in Rome in 1714, and his opera, Contesa delle stagioni, was later performed at the Lisbon royal chapel in 1720.
		When Domenico Scarlatti died in Madrid, Spain on July 23, 1757, he left behind a large collection of manuscripts of his brilliant harpsichord sonatas that remained almost entirely unknown outside of Spain and Portugal until their partial publication was realized by Carl Czerny in 1839, followed by their virtually complete publication by Longo in 1906.
	www.carolinaclassical.com /scarlatti/index.html (2017 words)

	Domenico Scarlatti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Domenico Scarlatti, portrayed by Domingo Antonio Velasco in 1738.
		Domenico Scarlatti was born in Naples, Italy, in 1685, the same year as two other baroque masters, Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederic Handel.
		Scarlatti was also a pioneer in the realm of rhythm and musical syntax: syncopation and cross-rhythms are common in his music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Domenico_Scarlatti (1250 words)

	Domenico Scarlatti Summary
		Domenico Scarlatti was born in Naples on Oct. 26, 1685, the son of Alessandro Scarlatti, the most famous composer in Italy in the early 18th century.
		Scarlatti's influence on late-eighteenth style may have been considerable, but he has often been considered an outsider by music historians, perhaps because of his unique approach to Baroque music, or because of the underappreciation of Spanish music of the time.
		Scarlatti's use of the Phrygian mode and other tonal inflections more or less alien to European art music is an obvious symptom of this, as is his use of extremely dissonant cluster chords and other techniques which seem to imitate the guitar.
	www.bookrags.com /Domenico_Scarlatti (2004 words)

	Alessandro Scarlatti Summary
		Scarlatti was born in Palermo on May 2, 1660, the eldest son of Pietro and Eleonora d'Amato Scarlata.
		Scarlatti was born in Sicily, either in Trapani or Palermo.
		Scarlatti's music forms an important link between the early Baroque Italian vocal styles of the 17th century, with their centers in Florence, Venice and Rome, and the classical school of the 18th century, which culminated in Mozart.
	www.bookrags.com /Alessandro_Scarlatti (1532 words)

	Domenico Scarlatti - the Sheet Music
		Scarlatti explicitly noted when he wanted the rougher sound of 'changed fingers', a two-fingered 'trill' on one note - most can not be played as written with four fingers flailing the way pianists are taught today.
		Notes that Scarlatti did make concerning hand crossings are preserved in the form he wrote them, D (dritta, right) and M (manca, left), in the first example of their occurrence in each sonata.
		Scarlatti used the baroque trill symbol and tr, for brief tremulo, apparently interchangeably as a general sign for a note to be stressed.
	www.sankey.ws /scarlattimus.html (2660 words)

	Scarlatti
		An international traveler and master of the harpsichord, Domenico Scarlatti’s contributions to the keyboard are monumental and ably bridge the gap between the Baroque and Classical periods.
		The sixth child of Alessandro Scarlatti and Antonia Anzaloni, Domenico Scarlatti was destined to be a musician from birth.
		Scarlatti flourish in his new environment and its influence is also evident in the numerous harpsichord works composed during this period.
	www.musica.co.uk /composers/Scarlatti.htm (506 words)

	The Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti
		Scarlatti's carefully crafted sounds admit of little casual variation, but much of his music is written with slight pauses in one hand or the other that permit variations in hand crossings - right over or under left, left over or under right, even intermixed.
		And, when Scarlatti's phrases are repeated with no variations of sound, as he mostly explicitly wrote them, they build structure and power upon a sustained rhythmic foundation, rather than on a phrase-oriented vocal one.
		The rarity with which Scarlatti actually notes pauses or breaks between apparently-disjoint phrases becomes justified when his work is studied overall - the silences he marks explicitly become more effective, and the phrases take their place as his development of melodic sequences, using sounds rather than just notes.
	midiworld.com /scarlatti.htm (1649 words)

	Scarlatti - MSN Encarta
		Scarlatti first attracted attention by his revision (1704) of the opera Irene by the Italian composer Carlo Francesco Pollarolo.
		In 1729 he was summoned to the Spanish court at Madrid, which remained his residence for the rest of his life.
		Scarlatti was a founder of the modern school of keyboard technique; he was the first composer to call for such devices in performance as arpeggios, the rapid repetition of a single note, and the crossing of hands.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557293/Scarlatti.html (164 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		It confirmed Scarlatti in his chosen career as an opera composer and attracted the attention of Queen Christina of Sweden, who made him her maestro di cappella.
		In 1684 Scarlatti was appointed maestro di cappella at the vice-regal court of Naples, at the same time as his brother Francesco was made first violinist.
		Scarlatti found little satisfaction in the life of a church musician, and towards the end of 1708 he accepted an invitation from the new Austrian viceroy to resume his position at Naples.
	www.karadar.it /Dictionary/scarlattia.html (538 words)

	Alessandro Scarlatti — Infoplease.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		From 1709 to 1714, Scarlatti was composer to the Polish Queen Maria Casimira in her court at Rome, and then for a time he was chapel master of St. Peter's.
		Scarlatti wrote operas, oratorios, and cantatas, but his fame rests chiefly on his keyboard sonatas, of which he wrote well over 500.
		Scarlatti is widely considered to be the founder of modern keyboard technique.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0843882.html (446 words)

	HOASM: Domenico Scarlatti
		What the younger Scarlatti's official duties were remains obscure, and none of his compositions from the period of his employment at the Neapolitan court appear to be extant.
		At the weekly concerts established by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, Scarlatti met virtuosos and composers including Corelli and the young Thomas Roseingrave, who was to play an active role in disseminating Scarlatti's music in England and Ireland.
		When Scarlatti died in Madrid on July 23, 1757, he left behind him a few manuscript collections of sonatas that remained almost entirely unknown to the world at large until their partial publication by Czerny in 1839 and their virtually complete publication by Longo in 1906.
	www.hoasm.org /VIIIC/ScarlattiD.html (1746 words)

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		Scarlatti was to serve the new Queen of Spain faithfully for the rest of his life.
		Scarlatti lived out the rest of his life at the Spanish Court, continuing to supply new compositions until just prior to his death.
		Scarlatti's sonatas are all in only one movement (no means only one tempo), and individually numbered in all the sources, but both Venice and Parma manuscripts often join them together by couple (rarely by three), generally in the same tonality (not always grouped in the same way in various manuscripts).
	members.tripod.com /shereentst/scarlatti.htm (1102 words)

	Domenico Scarlatti biography - 8notes.com
		Domenico Scarlatti (October 26, 1685 – July 23, 1757) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era.
		Scarlatti's influence on late-eighteenth style was therefore probably considerable, although he has always tended to be written into music history as an 'outsider'.
		Unfortunately for Scarlatti, instrumental music is typically seen as, in the words of the Russian pianist Anton Rubinstein, 'A German Art'.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/scarlatti.asp (886 words)

	Scarlatti - CD Description
		Scarlatti’s known work ammounts to 555 compositions of which most are in a single tempo.
		Scarlatti never threw light upon the origins of these varying and imprecise titles.
		I have sought to draw attention to a less well-known but extemely important Scarlatti: the Scarlatti of melancholy and recollections-feelings which despite the obvious stereotypes are typically Mediterranean in character.
	www.ppmusic.com /music/cdc006.htm (543 words)

	HOASM: Alessandro Scarlatti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He also taught successively at the Conservatories of San Onofrio, de' Poveri di Gesù Cristo, and the Loreto; among his distinguished pupils were Durante, Leo, Feo, Logroscino, Hasse, and Porpora.
		Scarlatti produced no fewer than 115 operas (of which forty-one are still extant); La Rosaura (Rome, about 1600), edited by Eitner, was printed by the “Gesellschaft für Musikforschung,” Vol.
		Through his development of the recitative and aria into the contrary elements of the opera, Scarlatti brought the 'Neapolitan' style to a leading position which it retained up to the time of Gluck.
	www.hoasm.org /VIIIB/ScarlattiA.html (261 words)

	Baroque Music - Composers
		In 1684 a more important work, Pompeo, was performed in Naples, and Scarlatti was appointed musical director at the Neapolitan court.
		Scarlatti was assistant choirmaster at the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome from 1703 to 1713.
		Scarlatti was one of the first opera composers to strongly differentiate the singing styles of aria and recitative.
	baroque-music.com /frames/info/scarlatti.shtml (333 words)

	Alessandro Scarlatti
		In 1684 Scarlatti was appointed maestro di cappella at the vice-regal court of Naples, at the same time as his brother Francesco was made first violinist.
		Scarlatti found little satisfaction in the life of a church musician, and towards the end of 1708 he accepted an invitation from the new Austrian viceroy to resume his position at Naples.
		He was not influential or even very active as a teacher, nor was he the sole originator of the musical structures (da capo aria, Italian overture, accompanied recitative) with which his name is associated, though he did bring to these a level of skill and originality which surpassed those of his contemporaries.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/scarlatti_a.html (547 words)

	Scarlatti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pietro Filippo Scarlatti (1679–1750), son of Alessandro, composer, organist, choirmaster.
		Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757), son of Alessandro, influential in the development of keyboard music.
		The Scarlatti Inheritance, is the title of a novel by Robert Ludlum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scarlatti (127 words)

	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - D. Scarlatti
		Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - D. Scarlatti
		Scarlatti Sonatas Lists by Kazutaka Tsutsui & Dave Lampson
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	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/scarlattid.html (228 words)

	Scarlatti
		This then, is where Scarlatti first heard the hypnotic sounds of Andalucian gypsy music that were to become an endless source of inspiration for many sonatas, all as far as we know, written for his Royal pupil.
		It is thought that between 1738 and 1756, Scarlatti wrote the majority of his keyboard sonatas.
		Sonatas in Scarlatti’s hand have completely disappeared and in fact examples of his writing are scarce.
	www.the-scarlatti-experience.fsnet.co.uk /scarlatti.htm (517 words)

	Domenico Scarlatti 1685-1757
		A contemporary of Bach, Domenico Scarlatti was born in Naples, the sixth of ten children.
		Scarlatti followed the royal pair to Madrid where he spent the last 29 years of his life.
		Although gypsies had been in Spain for over three centuries when Scarlatti came along, it would be fair to say that there were enough folkloric songs and dances available to the general public to fire Scarlatti's imagination.
	herso.freeservers.com /scarlatti.html (1405 words)

	Domenico Scarlatti, Horowitz Plays Scarlatti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Part of this is simply technical; the sonatas were written for the harpsichord (although Scarlatti's approach was extraordinarily sophisticated), which, because it is plucked, has a much crisper, cleaner attack -- and, while articulation is not the only requirement in Scarlatti's sonatas, it is an important one.
		Horowitz also pointed out that, although Scarlatti lived much of his life in Spain and Portugal, and although one can, on close listening, discover a certain Iberian sensibility, the sonatas are still quintessentially Italian.
		That Scarlatti enjoys the popularity he does today reflects not only Horowitz' foresightedness, but his role in making the prediction of another famous pianist, Frédérick Chopin, come true: "I maintain that there will come a time when Scarlatti will often be played in concerts, and people will appreciate and enjoy him." Welcome to the future.
	www.greenmanreview.com /cd/cd_scarlatti_horowitzplaysscarlatti.html (503 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alessandro Scarlatti
		Born in Sicily, either at Trapani or at Palermo, in 1659; died at Naples 24 Oct., 1725; buried there in the musicians' chapel of the Church of Montesanto.
		Of Francesco, brother of Alessandro, we know that in 1684 he became violinist in the royal chapel at Naples, that fifteen years later his oratorio, "Agnus occisus ab origine mundi", was sung in Rome, and that in 1720 he gave a concert in London, where Domenico was staying at the same time.
		Giuseppe Scarlatti was either grandson or nephew of Alessandro (nipote can have the two meanings).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13515a.htm (610 words)

	Domenico Scarlatti - the Recording
		Domenico Scarlatti was born in Italy in 1685, the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Frideric Handel.
		Most performers, on encountering the range and quantity of Scarlatti's music, quickly choose a few pieces and interpret him as a capricious mannerist (or, worse in my opinion, as a romantic).
		Scarlatti obviously enjoyed having the fastest fingers in Europe, and explicitly noted some passages far faster than I can play them.
	www.sankey.ws /scarlattirec.html (1802 words)

	Anecdote - Alessandro Scarlatti - Scarlatti`s Cat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		One day the Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti's cat struck several notes on the keys of his harpsichord, one by one with its paws.
		Scarlatti proceeded to write "The Cat's Fugue," a fugue for harpsichord in D minor.
		Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725) Italian composer, father of harpsichordist Domenico Scarlatti (1685—1757) [noted for various works and for his influence on the development of modern opera]
	www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=4177 (158 words)

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