What is Domenico Scarlatti?
[[File:Retrato de Domenico Scarlatti.jpg|thumb|right|Domenico Scarlatti, painted by [[Domingo Antonio Velasco]]]] '''Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti''' (born [[Naples]], Italy, on 26 October 1685; died [[Madrid]], Spain, on 23 July 1757) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[baroque music|baroque]] [[composer]] and [[harpsichord]]ist. He was the son of the famous composer [[Alessandro Scarlatti]]. Part of his life he spent in Venice and Rome. His father Alessandro was a famous composer who wrote many operas. Domenico became famous for his [[sonata]]s for harpsichord. He wrote over 550 of them. They are mostly quite short pieces in one movement, most written in an early [[Classical music period|Classical]] style, which influenced many future Classical composers. He had some unusual effects in his music such as the crossing of hands as they leap wildly from one end of the keyboard to another. He also liked crunchy [[chord]]s which sound like the strumming of [[Spain|Spanish]] [[guitar]]s. He gave harpsichord lessons to the [[Infanta]] Maria Barbara at the Royal Court in [[Lisbon]] in [[Portugal]]. When she married she took Scarlatti, her harpsichord teacher, with her to [[Madrid]] in Spain where he spent the rest of his life. {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Scarlatti, Domenico}} [[Category:18th-century Italian composers|Scarlatti, Domenico]] [[Category:Baroque composers|Scarlatti, Domenico]] [[Category:1685 births]] [[Category:1757 deaths]] [[Category:Musicians from Naples]] [[Category:Italian harpsichordists]]