Scarlatti, D.: Keyboard Sonatas (Complete), Vol. 11

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Gottlieb Wallisch
Domenico Scarlatti

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Performer Biography

Gottlieb Wallisch won first prize in the prestigious international piano competition The Stravinsky Awards in America at the age of sixteen.

Composition History

Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas, of which some 555 are known, were largely composed for his pupil, the Infanta Maria Barbara, who became Queen of Spain in 1746.

Composer Biography

Domenico Scarlatti once competed in a keyboard contest against Handel in Rome, where Handel was declared the better organist and Scarlatti the better harpsichordist.

Composer Biography

Domenico Scarlatti, the composer, was the sixth of ten children of Alessandro Scarlatti, who was chiefly responsible for the early development of Neapolitan opera.

Composition History

The keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti survive in various 18th-century manuscripts, some from the collection of Queen Maria Barbara, possibly bequeathed to the Italian castrato Farinelli.