Friday, 26 October 2012
On Domenico Scarlatti's Birthday
Posted on 10:56 by Unknown
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti
portrait by Domingo Antonio Velasco, around 1739
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Domenico_Scarlatti_%28azul%29.jpg)
no copyright infringement intended
Domenico Scarlatti was born in 1685 (the same year with Bach and Handel), on October 26. So it's his birthday exactly today.
Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas are single movements, mostly in binary form, and
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