SCARLATTI EXTRAVAGANZA
SCARLATTI EXTRAVAGANZA
David Clark Little, harpsichord
16 SONATAS
K 044, K 132, K 208, K 209, K 239, K 259, K 260, K 322, K 323, K 326, K 327, K 343, K 344, K 513, K 544, K 545
The chief Italian keyboard composer of the eighteenth century, and one of the most original geniuses in the history of music, was Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757). Son of the famous Alessandro Scarlatti, born in the same year as Bach and Handel, Domenico Scarlatti produced no works of lasting importance before his first collection of harpsichord sonatas which was published in 1738. In 1720 or 1721 Scarlatti left Italy to enter the service of the King of Portugal. When his pupil the Infanta of Portugal was married to Prince Ferdinand of Spain in 1729, Scarlatti followed her to Madrid, where he remained for the rest of his life in the service of the Spanish courts and where he composed most of his 550 sonatas.
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