The BAROQUE Style 1600 - 1750

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The BAROQUE Style1600 - 1750

• Dominico Scarlatti George Frederick Handel
  Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1757
  1685-1759 1685-1750

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Domenico Scarlatti1685 - 1757

• Scarlatti seated at the harpsichord

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Domenico Scarlatti1685 - 1757

• Italian composer and harpsichordist
• Lived mostly in Lisbon and Madrid
• Possibly the greatest harpsichord virtuoso ever
• Harpsichord teacher to Maria Barbara of Braganza,
  Princess of Asturias
• Maria Barbara eventually became the Queen of
  Spain
• Scarlatti accompanied her to Madrid and remained
  there until his death
• He became famous during his lifetime through one
  volume of 30 sonatas which were published in
  London

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DOMENICO SCARLATTI1685 - 1757

• Son of Alessandro Scarlatti (opera composer)
• Born in Naples Oct. 26, 1685
• Musical training from his father
• 1701 - organist and composer to the royal chapel
  at Naples
• 1709 - house musician of Queen Maria Casimira of
  Poland
• Maestro di Cappella at the Vatican
• 1720 - Maestro di Cappella at the royal chapel in
  Lisbon
• 1728 married Maria Caterian Gentile

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DOMENICO SCARLATTI1685 - 1757

• 1729 settled in Madrid as Maestro di Camera at
  the royal court
• Composed harpsichord sonatas for Maria Barbara,
  Queen of Spain
• First volume of Sonatas published in 1738
• First wife died in 1739
• Remarried - Anastasia Maxarti
• Nine children
• Died in Madrid - July 23, 1757

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Scarlatti

• 12 operas
• Church music
• Cantatas
• Sonatas
• Harpsichord pieces are most important
• Composed over 500 sonatas for harpsichord which
  Scarlatti called Exercises
• Most of the surviving sonatas were written after
  he was 50
• K. Ralph Kirkpatrick

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The Harpsichord (also called a spinet)is a large
expensive plucked-string keyboard instrument with
several sets of strings and no sustaining power.
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Domenico Scarlatti

• Music
• Sonata in D major, K.491 (played on harpsichord)
• A-B
• B-ABaroque Binary Form (A-B)
  (B-A)Part 1 or A
  Part 2 or BA - B
  B - A I - V
  V - ID maj - A
  maj A maj - D maj
• Sonata K. 427 (played on piano)

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Sonata L422/K141

• Longo, Alessandro
• (1864 - 1945). Italian pianist and composer.
• Kirkpatrick.
• Abbreviation for the standard thematic catalogue
  of the keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti by
  the American keyboard player and scholar Ralph
  Kirkpatrick (191184)