Month: August 2014

Compositional Highlights: Domenico Scarlatti

Hello and welcome to my blog! Please see the About page for more info about myself and my blog. So, to start this off, I’ll begin with a wonderful composer who is perhaps better known than many of the rest I will cover in this blog – Domenico Scarlatti.

Scarlatti was born in 1685, in Naples, Italy, the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Frideric Handel, the two great Baroque composers. I do feel that he is, unjustly, less popular than the other two, likely because a vast majority of his music was written for keyboard. His father, (more…)