1/7/2021 Domenico Scarlatti - Wikipedia

The many sonatas that were unpublished during Scarlatti's lifetime have appeared in print irregularly in the two and a half
centuries since. Scarlatti has attracted notable admirers, including Béla Bartók, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Pieter-Jan Belder,
Johann Sebastian Bach, Muzio Clementi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Carl Czerny, Franz Liszt, Johannes
Brahms, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, Emil Gilels, Francis Poulenc, Olivier Messiaen, Enrique Granados, Marc-André
Hamelin, Vladimir Horowitz, Ivo Pogorelić, Scott Ross (the first performer to record all 555 sonatas), Heinrich Schenker, András
Schiff and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas are single movements, mostly in binary form, and some in early sonata form, and mostly written
for the harpsichord or the earliest pianofortes. (There are four for organ, and a few for small instrumental group). Some of them
display harmonic audacity in their use of discords, and also unconventional modulations to remote keys.

Other distinctive attributes of Scarlatti's style are the following:

The influence of Iberian (Portuguese and Spanish) folk music. An example is Scarlatti's use of the Phrygian mode and other
tonal inflections more or less alien to European art music. Many of Scarlatti's figurations and dissonances are suggestive of the
guitar.
Scarlatti's compositions were influenced by the Spanish guitar as can be seen in notes being played repetitively in a rapid
manner.[7]
A formal device in which each half of a sonata leads to a pivotal point, which Kirkpatrick termed "the crux", and which is
sometimes underlined by a pause or fermata. Before the crux, Scarlatti sonatas often contain their main thematic variety, and
after the crux the music makes more use of repetitive figurations as it modulates away from the home key (in the first half) or
back to the home key (in the second half).
Scarlatti played in the galant style.[8]

Kirkpatrick produced an edition of the sonatas in 1953, and the numbering from this edition is now nearly always used – the Kk. or
K. number. Previously, the numbering commonly used was from the 1906 edition compiled by the Neapolitan pianist Alessandro
Longo (L. numbers). Kirkpatrick's numbering is chronological, while Longo's ordering is a result of his arbitrarily grouping the
sonatas into "suites". In 1967 the Italian musicologist Giorgio Pestelli published a revised catalog (using P. numbers), which
corrected what he considered to be some anachronisms.[9] Although the exact dates of composition for these surviving sonatas are
not known, Kirkpatrick concludes that they may all have been composed late in Scarlatti's career (after 1735), with the majority
perhaps dating from after the composer's sixty-seventh birthday.[10][11]

Aside from his many sonatas, Scarlatti composed a number of operas and cantatas, symphonias, and liturgical pieces. Well-known
works include the Stabat Mater of 1715 and the Salve Regina of 1757, which is thought to be his last composition.

Selected discography

Complete works
L’Œuvre pour clavier, Scott Ross (1988, 34 CDs Erato/Radio France) OCLC 725539860 (https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/725539
860), 935869199 (https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/935869199)
Domenico Scarlatti: The Complete Sonatas, Richard Lester, harpsichord & fortepiano (2001–2005, 39 CDs in 7 volumes
Nimbus Records NI 1725/NI 1741) OCLC 1071943740 (https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1071943740).
Keyboard Sonatas, Emilia Fadini, Ottavio Dantone, Sergio Vartolo, Marco Farolfi, Enrico Baiano..., harpsichord, fortepiano,
organ (1999–2012, 12 CDs Stradivarius) – in progress
Keyboard Sonatas, Pieter-Jan Belder, harpischord & fortepiano (2012, 36 CDs Brilliant Classics)
Keyboard Sonatas, Carlo Grante, Bösendorfer Imperial piano (2009–2020, 35 CDs in 6 volumes Music & Arts)
Keyboard Sonatas, various pianists (1994–2019, 22 CDs Naxos) – in progress

Piano recitals
2 Sonatas : Sonata K. 9 and Sonata K. 380 – Dinu Lipatti, piano (20 February et 27 September 1947, EMI / 12 CDs Hänssler
PH17011)
4 Sonatas : Sonata K. 1, Sonata K. 87, Sonata K. 193, and Sonata K. 386 – Clara Haskil, piano (? 1947, BBC / « Inédits
Haskil » Tahra TAH 389 / TAH 4025)
11 Sonatas : Sonata K. 1, Sonate K. 35, Sonata K. 87, Sonata K. 132, Sonata K. 193, Sonata K. 247, Sonata K. 322, Sonata K.
386, Sonata K. 437, Sonata K. 515, Sonata K. 519 – Clara Haskil, piano (October 1951, Westminster/DG 471 214-2)
3 Sonatas : Sonata K. 87, Sonata K. 193 and Sonata K. 386 – Clara Haskil, piano (October 1951, Philips)
The Siena Pianoforte : 6 Scarlatti sonatas (and 3 sonatas of Mozart) – Charles Rosen, Siena piano (1955,
Counterpoint/Esoteric / Everest Records CPT 53000)
37 Piano Sonatas : Vladimir Horowitz (1946–1981, « Complete Recordings » RCA and CBS/Sony Classical)
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