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Domenico Scarlatti

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10 Keyboard Sonatas12 Sonatas Modernas para Clavicordio, Libro 117 Sinfonias2 Keyboard Sonatas in F minor, K.204a-b22 Keyboard Pieces24 Pieces in 8 Suites25 Harpsichord Sonatas26 Sonatas Inéditas para Clave3 Keyboard Sonatas transposed to the "missing" keys D-flat major, E-flat minor, G-sharp minor3 Organ Sonatas3 Sonate pentru trio de ancii30 Harpsichord Sonatas, E-Mc RCSM 3/140842 Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin, K.1-42

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Antra, valles, divo plaudant montes collesAvrei ben folle il core

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Cat fugueChe vidi oh ciel, che vidiComplete Keyboard Works in FacsimileComposizioni per pianoforte

D

Dir vorrei ah m'arrossiscoDouble Reed Quartets

E

Essercizi per Gravicembalo, K.1-30

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Già che al partir t'astringe

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Ifigenia in Tauri

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Keyboard Sonata in A major, Cary 703Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.101Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.113Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.114Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.181Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.182Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.208Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.209Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.211Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.212Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.219Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.220Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.221Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.222Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.24Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.26Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.268Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.269Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.279Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.280Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.285Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.286Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.300Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.301Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.320Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.321Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.322Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.323Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.342Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.343Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.344Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.368Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.369Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.39Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.404Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.405Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.428Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.429Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.452Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.453Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.456Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.457Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.499Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.500Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.533Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.536Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.537Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.62Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.65Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.74Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.83Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.109Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.110Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.148Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.149Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.175Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.188Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.217Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.218Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.265Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.3Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.341Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.36Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.382Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.383Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.451Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.532Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.54Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.61Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K.7Keyboard Sonata in A-flat major, K.127Keyboard Sonata in A-flat major, K.130Keyboard Sonata in B major, K.244Keyboard Sonata in B major, K.245Keyboard Sonata in B major, K.261Keyboard Sonata in B major, K.262Keyboard Sonata in B minor, K.173Keyboard Sonata in B minor, K.197Keyboard Sonata in B minor, K.227Keyboard Sonata in B minor, K.27Keyboard Sonata in B minor, K.293Keyboard Sonata in B minor, K.376Keyboard Sonata in B minor, K.377Keyboard Sonata in B minor, K.408Keyboard Sonata in B minor, K.409Keyboard Sonata in B minor, K.497Keyboard Sonata in B minor, K.498Keyboard Sonata in B minor, K.87Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.112Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.154Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.155Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.16Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.172Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.189Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.190Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.202Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.228Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.229Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.248Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.249Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.266Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.267Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.272Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.273Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.310Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.311Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.331Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.332Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.334Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.351Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.360Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.361Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.392Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.393Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.410Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.411Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.42Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.439Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.440Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.441Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.442Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.47Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.472Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.473Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.488Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.489Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.503Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.504Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.528Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.529Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.544Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.545Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.550Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.551Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.57Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.66Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.70Keyboard Sonata in B-flat minor, K.128Keyboard Sonata in B-flat minor, K.131Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.100Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.117Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.132Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.133Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.143Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.156Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.157Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.159Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.165Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.166Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.170Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.199Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.200Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.225Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.231Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.242Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.243Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.250Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.251Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.255Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.270Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.271Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.308Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.309Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.326Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.327Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.329Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.330Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.339Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.340Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.356Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.357Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.384Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.385Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.398Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.399Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.406Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.407Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.420Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.421Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.422Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.423Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.460Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.461Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.464Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.465Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.485Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.486Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.487Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.49Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.501Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.502Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.513Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.514Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.515Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.527Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.548Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.549Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.72Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.86Keyboard Sonata in C major, K.95Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.11Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.115Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.116Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.126Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.129Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.139Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.158Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.174Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.22Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.226Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.230Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.254Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.302Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.303Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.362Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.363Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.37Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.40Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.48Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.526Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.56Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.58Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.73Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.84Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.99Keyboard Sonata in C-sharp minor, K.246Keyboard Sonata in C-sharp minor, K.247Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.118Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.119Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.122Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.137Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.140Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.145Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.160Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.161Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.164Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.177Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.178Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.21Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.214Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.223Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.224Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.23Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.236Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.237Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.258Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.277Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.278Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.281Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.282Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.287Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.288Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.29Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.298Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.299Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.312Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.313Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.33Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.333Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.335Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.336Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.345Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.346Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.352Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.353Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.358Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.359Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.388Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.389Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.397Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.400Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.401Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.414Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.415Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.416Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.430Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.435Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.436Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.443Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.45Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.458Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.478Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.479Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.480Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.484Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.490Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.491Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.492Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.509Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.511Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.512Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.53Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.534Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.535Keyboard Sonata in D major, K.96Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.1Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.10Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.120Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.138Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.141Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.176Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.18Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.191Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.213Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.294Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.295Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.32Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.34Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.396Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.41Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.417Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.434Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.444Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.459Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.5Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.510Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.516Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.517Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.52Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.552Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.553Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.64Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.77Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.89Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.9Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.90Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.92Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.deestKeyboard Sonata in E major, K.134Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.135Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.136Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.162Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.163Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.20Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.206Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.207Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.215Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.216Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.264Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.28Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.380Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.381Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.395Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.403Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.46Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.495Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.496Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.530Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.531Keyboard Sonata in E minor, K.147Keyboard Sonata in E minor, K.15Keyboard Sonata in E minor, K.198Keyboard Sonata in E minor, K.203Keyboard Sonata in E minor, K.232Keyboard Sonata in E minor, K.233Keyboard Sonata in E minor, K.263Keyboard Sonata in E minor, K.291Keyboard Sonata in E minor, K.292Keyboard Sonata in E minor, K.394Keyboard Sonata in E minor, K.402Keyboard Sonata in E minor, K.81Keyboard Sonata in E minor, K.98Keyboard Sonata in E-flat major, K.123Keyboard Sonata in E-flat major, K.192Keyboard Sonata in E-flat major, K.193Keyboard Sonata in E-flat major, K.252Keyboard Sonata in E-flat major, K.253Keyboard Sonata in E-flat major, K.306Keyboard Sonata in E-flat major, K.307Keyboard Sonata in E-flat major, K.370Keyboard Sonata in E-flat major, K.371Keyboard Sonata in E-flat major, K.474Keyboard Sonata in E-flat major, K.475Keyboard Sonata in E-flat major, K.507Keyboard Sonata in E-flat major, K.508Keyboard Sonata in E-flat major, K.51Keyboard Sonata in E-flat major, K.68Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.106Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.107Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.150Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.151Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.167Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.168Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.17Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.194Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.195Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.205Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.256Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.257Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.274Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.275Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.276Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.296Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.297Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.316Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.317Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.349Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.350Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.354Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.355Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.366Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.367Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.378Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.379Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.38Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.418Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.419Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.437Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.438Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.44Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.445Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.446Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.468Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.469Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.482Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.483Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.505Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.506Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.518Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.524Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.525Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.540Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.541Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.542Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.543Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.554Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.59Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.6Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.78Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.82Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.85Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.94Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.183Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.184Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.185Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.186Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.187Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.19Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.204aKeyboard Sonata in F minor, K.204bKeyboard Sonata in F minor, K.238Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.239Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.364Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.365Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.386Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.387Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.462Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.463Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.466Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.467Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.481Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.50Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.519Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.555Keyboard Sonata in F minor, K.69Keyboard Sonata in F sharp minor, K.142Keyboard Sonata in F-sharp major, K.318Keyboard Sonata in F-sharp major, K.319Keyboard Sonata in F-sharp minor, K.25Keyboard Sonata in F-sharp minor, K.447Keyboard Sonata in F-sharp minor, K.448Keyboard Sonata in F-sharp minor, K.67Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.103Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.104Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.105Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.124Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.125Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.13Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.14Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.144Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.146Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.152Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.153Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.169Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.171Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.180Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.2Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.201Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.210Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.235Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.240Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.241Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.259Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.260Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.283Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.284Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.289Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.290Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.304Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.305Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.314Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.324Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.325Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.328Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.337Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.338Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.348Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.372Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.374Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.375Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.390Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.391Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.412Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.413Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.424Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.425Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.427Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.431Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.432Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.433Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.449Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.454Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.455Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.470Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.471Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.477Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.493Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.494Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.520Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.521Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.522Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.523Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.538Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.539Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.547Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.55Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.63Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.71Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.75Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.79Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.80Keyboard Sonata in G major, K.91Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.102Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.108Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.111Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.12Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.121Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.179Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.196Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.234Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.31Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.315Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.347Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.35Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.373Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.4Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.426Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.43Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.450Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.476Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.546Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.60Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.76Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.8Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.88Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.93Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.97Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.deestKeyboard Sonatas, K.101-200Keyboard Sonatas, K.1-100Keyboard Sonatas, K.1-555Keyboard Sonatas, K.401-500Keyboard Sonatas, K.501-555

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Lætatus sum

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MagnificatManuscript Collection of Harpsichord Sonatas, I-PAc F.Psi.I.48Manuscript Collection of Harpsichord Sonatas, I-Vnm Mss.It.IV.199-213Missa Quatuor vocum

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O qual meco Nice cangiataOpere complete per clavicembalo

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Piangete occhi dolentiPur nel sonno almen talora

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Qual farfalletta amante

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Salve ReginaSämmtliche Werke für das PianoforteScritte, con falso ingannoSe fedele tu m'adoriSinfonia No.2 in D majorStabat MaterSymphonies & Concerti grossi

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Te DeumThe Beauties of Dominico ScarlattiThe Good-Humoured LadiesTinte a note di sangue
Wikipedia
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, also known as Domingo or Doménico Scarlatti; (Naples 26 October 1685 – Madrid, 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style. Like his renowned father Alessandro Scarlatti, he composed in a variety of musical forms, although today he is known mainly for his 555 keyboard sonatas. He spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families.
Domenico Scarlatti was born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, belonging to the Spanish Crown. He was born in 1685, the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. Scarlatti was the sixth of ten children of the composer and teacher Alessandro Scarlatti. His older brother Pietro Filippo was also a musician.
Scarlatti first studied music under his father. Other composers who may have been his early teachers include Gaetano Greco, Francesco Gasparini, and Bernardo Pasquini, all of whom may have influenced his musical style. Muzio Clementi brought Scarlatti's sonatas into the classical style by editing what is known to be its first publication. He was appointed as composer and organist at the royal chapel in Naples in 1701. In 1703, he revised Carlo Francesco Pollarolo's opera Irene for performance at Naples. Soon afterward, his father sent him to Venice. After this, nothing is known of Scarlatti's life until 1709, when he went to Rome and entered the service of the exiled Polish queen Marie Casimire. It was in Rome that he met Thomas Roseingrave. Scarlatti was already an accomplished harpsichordist: there is a story of a trial of skill with George Frideric Handel at the palace of Cardinal Ottoboni in Rome where he was judged possibly superior to Handel on the harpsichord, although inferior on the organ. Scarlatti has been heralded as the "greatest Italian harpsichord composer of all time". Later in life, Scarlatti was known to cross himself in veneration when speaking of Handel's skill. While in Rome, Scarlatti composed several operas for Queen Casimire's private theatre. He was Maestro di Cappella at St. Peter's from 1715 to 1719. In 1719 he traveled to London to direct his opera Narciso at the King's Theatre.
According to Vicente Bicchi, Papal Nuncio in Portugal at the time, Domenico Scarlatti arrived in Lisbon on 29 November 1719. There he taught music to the Portuguese princess Maria Magdalena Barbara. He left Lisbon on 28 January 1727 for Rome, where he married Maria Caterina Gentili on 6 May 1728. In 1729 he moved to Seville, staying for four years. In 1733 he went to Madrid as a music master to Princess Maria Barbara, who had married into the Spanish royal house. The Princess later became Queen of Spain. Scarlatti remained in the country for the remaining twenty-five years of his life and had five children there. After the death of his first wife in 1739, he married a Spaniard, Anastasia Maxarti Ximenes. Among his compositions during his time in Madrid were most of the 555 keyboard sonatas for which he is best known.
Scarlatti befriended the castrato singer Farinelli, a fellow Neapolitan also enjoying royal patronage in Madrid. The musicologist and harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick commented that Farinelli's correspondence provides "most of the direct information about Scarlatti that has transmitted itself to our day". Domenico Scarlatti died in Madrid, at the age of 71. His residence on Calle Leganitos is designated with a historical plaque, and his descendants still live in Madrid. He was buried at a convent there, in Madrid, but his grave no longer exists.
Minor planet 6480 Scarlatti is named in his honour.
performed on a harpsichord by Martha Goldstein
performed on a harpsichord by Martha Goldstein
performed on a piano by Raymond Smullyan
performed on a spinet by Ulrich Metzner
performed on a digital harpsichord by Membeth
performed on a piano by Veronica van der Knaap
MIDI rendition
performed on a piano by Raymond Smullyan
performed on a digital harpsichord by Membeth
performed on a piano by Raymond Smullyan
Only a fraction of Scarlatti's compositions were published during his lifetime; Scarlatti himself seems to have overseen the publication in 1738 of the most famous collection, his 30 Essercizi ("Exercises"). These were well received throughout Europe, and were championed by the foremost English writer on music of the eighteenth century, Charles Burney.
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:
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 and added some sonatas lacking in Kirkpatrick's edition. 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.
Aside from his many sonatas, Scarlatti composed a number of operas, cantatas, 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.