Domenico Scarlatti

Dr Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (* 26. Oktober 1685 z Neapel; † 23. Juli 1757 z Madrid) isch en italiänische Komponist und Cembalist im Barock gsi. Si Hauptbedütig lit in de Sonate für Cembalo, won er gschriibe het^[1] und wo zum Originellste vo iirer Art im 18. Joorhundert zele.^[2]

1. ↑ E grundsätzligi Iifüerig in si Klavierwärk git s bi edition text + kritik. Musikkonzepte 47. Domenico Scarlatti. Münche 1986
2. ↑ Im Ralph Kirkpatrick si Vorwort in Scarlatti – Sixty Sonatas in Two Volumes – Edited in Chronlogical Order from the Manuscript and Earliest Printed Sources with a Preface by Ralph Kirkpatrick, Volume 1, Schirmer's library of musical classics, distributed by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, Seite V: „Domenico Scarlatti was without question the most original keyboard composer of his century, but his true originality became first apparent only in later life. […] Only with his definitive departure from Italy in 1719, and after his father's death in 1725 does Domenico Scarlatti appear to have developed the style that has rendered him one of the greatest keyboard composers of all time.“