* The Scarlatti Inheritance, the title of Robert Ludlum's first novel

In 1702 Scarlatti left Naples and did not return until the Spanish domination had been superseded by that of the Austrians.

Pergolesi's work replaced one composed by Alessandro Scarlatti only nine years before, but which was already perceived as " old-fashioned ," so rapidly had public tastes changed.

In Italy, a distinct form called " overture " arose in the 1680s, and became established particularly through the operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, and spread throughout Europe, supplanting the French form as the standard operatic overture by the mid-18th century.

** Mitridate Eupatore, 1707 opera by Alessandro Scarlatti, based on Mithridates VI of Pontus

The early binary sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti provide excellent examples of the transition from binary to sonata-allegro form.

During the 18th century, many other composers like Scarlatti were discovering this same musical form by experimenting at their keyboards with harmony and melody.

* Sonate di Scarlatti, " Tivoli ", a ballet by Peter Martins subsequently titled Sonate di Scarlatti

With work wrongly attributed to Vinci by Alessandro Scarlatti Fille, tu parti?

It has been supposed that he was a pupil of Pitoni and Alessandro Scarlatti, but he could not possibly have studied with either of these composers, although he was undoubtedly influenced by their compositions.

The Dolorosa has been set to music by many composers, with the most famous settings being those by Palestrina, Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Haydn, Rossini, and Dvořák.

* Stabat Mater by Domenico Scarlatti

He also revived several obscure operas, including works by Alessandro Scarlatti.

Some of them follow the Scarlatti single-movement model ; others are in the three-movement form later adopted by Haydn, Beethoven and others.

The new volumes are collections of piano repertoire from all eras representing works by composers such as Mozart, Bergmuller, Beethoven, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Daquin, Grieg, Grandados, Villa-Lobos, Scarlatti, Handel, Bartok, and Debussy.

Alessandro Scarlatti wrote an oratorio in 1693, La Giuditta, as did the Portuguese composer Francisco António de Almeida in 1726 ; Juditha triumphans was written in 1716 by Antonio Vivaldi ; Mozart composed in 1771 La Betulia Liberata ( KV 118 ), to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio.

He graduated from the music conservatory Poveri di Gesù Cristo of his native city, where the civic opera scene was dominated by Alessandro Scarlatti.

Premiere: Naples 1961, Orchestra Scarlatti della R. A. I., conducted by the author

* The number of keyboard sonatas written by Domenico Scarlatti, according to the catalog by Ralph Kirkpatrick.

Padre Soler's most celebrated works are his keyboard sonatas, which are comparable to those composed by Domenico Scarlatti ( with whom he may have studied ).

It premiered at the Fair Saint-Laurent on 19 August with verses for the ariettes provided by Pierre Baurans and with music parodying a variety of composers including Vincenzo Ciampi, Duni, Baldassare Galuppi, and Giuseppe Scarlatti, and also included music attributed to the French composers Jean-Louis Laurette and Philidor.

In addition to a vast amount of the standard Germanic and Russian repertory, he is a specialist of Frederic Chopin and a noted champion of the works of neglected composers such as Muzio Clementi, Carl Maria von Weber, Jan Václav Voříšek, and Nikolai Medtner, as well as neglected works of well-known composers such as Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, and Robert Schumann, and transcriptions by Ferruccio Busoni.

He has expanded the repertoire for the guitar through transcriptions of works by Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Mozart, Paganini, and others, as well as through commissions from various composers including Luciano Berio, Leonardo Balada, Robert Beaser, Wiliam Bolcom, Xavier Montsalvatge, Nicholas Maw, George Rochberg and Kurt Schwertsik.

Domenico Scarlatti ( 1685 – 1757 ) began his career in Italy but wrote most of his solo harpsichord works in Spain ; his most famous work is his series of 555 harpsichord sonatas.

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.

Scarlatti was already an eminent 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 that instrument, although inferior on the organ.

He is said to have succeeded Scarlatti in 1725 at Sant ' Onofrio, and to have remained there until 1742, when he succeeded Porpora as head of the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto, also in Naples.

His piano repertoire is extensive and includes The Seasons, many Scarlatti sonatas, Pictures at an Exhibition as well as his own transcriptions of suites from The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty

In vocal music he is considered inferior to Scarlatti, and none of his famous duets, despite their charm, can compare for seriousness of intention with the Sicilian master's chamber-cantatas with the exception of Avanti il levar de la tenda ( See external references below ) which is superior in melodic construction and is a precursor to Mozart's work for voice.

Elisabeth Olin is believed to have debuted here in the 1750s, and foreign artists performed such as Elisabetta Almerighi, Giovanni Ansani ( 1772 ) and Rosa Scarlatti.

It is claimed that when the king's son, Dom António, arranged for Scarlatti to give Seixas harpsichord lessons, Scarlatti replied that it was Seixas who should give him lessons.

Domenico Scarlatti is also in Naples at this time.

Some musicologists label Scarlatti as a classical composer, and argue that the classical period begins earlier, but this is not the prevalent usage.

By the kindness of the Princess of Ursini, the unfortunate young man was placed in a convent at Astorga, in León, where he completed a musical education which is said to have been begun in Palermo under Francesco Scarlatti.

The Fugue in G minor ( K. 30, L. 499 ) by Domenico Scarlatti is a one-movement harpsichord sonata popularly known as the Cat fugue or Cat's fugue ( La Fuga del Gatto ).

The nickname, which was never used by the composer himself but was introduced only early in the 19th century, originates from a story about how Scarlatti came up with the strikingly unusual motif on which the fugue is built.

* Domenico Scarlatti is appointed organist and composer of the vice-regal court in Naples

The libretto is based on a libretto of the same name by Antonio Salvi, which had been set to music by Alessandro Scarlatti.

The scoring is unique in Bach's cantatas, but was frequently used by Italian composers such as Alessandro Scarlatti.

Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements, although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement ( Scarlatti, Scriabin ), two movements ( Beethoven, Haydn ), five ( Brahms ' Third Piano Sonata ) or even more movements.

Apart from Pergolesi, the first major composers of opera buffa were Nicola Logroscino, Baldassare Galuppi and Alessandro Scarlatti, all of them based in Naples or Venice.

While Luigi Rossi was his predecessor in developing the chamber-cantata, Carissimi was the composer who first made this form the vehicle for the most intellectual style of chamber-music, a function which it continued to perform until the death of Alessandro Scarlatti, Astorga and Marcello.

At first written in Neapolitan dialect, these works became " Italianized " with the operas of Scarlatti, Pergolesi ( La serva padrona ), Piccinni ( La Cecchina ), Cimarosa ( Il matrimonio segreto ), and then the great comic operas of Mozart and, later, Rossini.

* Domenico Scarlatti returns to Rome, where he meets his first wife.

Initially he stayed in Florence where he was introduced to Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti, and where his first Italian opera was composed and performed.

His recordings include the first integral edition by a single performer of the 555 harpsichord sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti.

Erato released the first recording of the complete keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, performed by harpsichordist Scott Ross in 1988 as a 34-CD set.

Other recordings include: Handel: Opera Arias and Overtures 2 for Hyperion, Johann Sebastian Bach wedding cantatas for Decca, Bach Cantatas 82a and 199 for Carus ; and four projects for BIS: with London Baroque, one of Handel motets and one of Christmas music by Scarlatti, Bach and others ; with the Royal Academy Baroque Orchestra the first recording of the newly-rediscovered Gloria by Handel ; and with the Romantic Chamber Group of London, Chanson d ' amour, an album of songs by the American composer Amy Beach, who died in 1944.

The album consists of a selection of pieces by Monteverdi, Domenico Scarlatti, and Handel as well as Bach whose music was exclusively featured on the first album.