In more recent times, Scarlatti's sonatas have been edited and cataloged by Alessandro Longo (L), Ralph Kirkpatrick (K), and Giorgio Pestelli (P), each providing a different numerical listing.
Composition History
Domenico Scarlatti's most significant achievement was composing hundreds of single-movement sonatas or exercises, largely for his pupil the Infanta Maria Barbara, who became Queen of Spain.
Composition History
The keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti survive in part in 18th-century manuscripts, some of which clearly belonged to Queen Maria Barbara and are now in Venice.
Notable Performances
In 1709, Domenico Scarlatti met and competed against Handel in a keyboard contest in Rome, where Handel was declared the better organist and Scarlatti the better harpsichordist.
Composer Biography
Domenico Scarlatti started his public career in 1701 as organist and composer in the vice-regal chapel under his father's guidance.
Performer Biography
Evgeny Zarafiants, the pianist on this album, was born into a musical family in Novosibirsk in 1959; his father was an oboist and pianist, and his mother a singer and pianist.
Composer Biography
Domenico Scarlatti, the composer, was the sixth of ten children of Alessandro Scarlatti, a Sicilian composer chiefly responsible for the early development of Neapolitan opera.
