DOMENICO [GIUSEPPE] SCARLATTI

  (1685-1757)

  Italian composer; at first wrote Italian opera etc., on the model
  of his father, and was known also as a harpsichord virtuoso, but
went in 1720 to Portugal and later to Spain (dying in Madrid), and there wrote the
greater number of his single movement harpsichord sonatas.

These, numbering over 550, and in their time also called exercises; exploit with great
the capabilities of the binary-form movement, and foreshadow later sonata form.

(For a nickname one see CAT'S FUGUE, for the numbering of the sonatas, see Kirkpatrick).

Other works include a STABAT MATER and other church music.

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