Alessandro Scarlatti
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Categories: Music
- Subcategories: Composers, Songwriters, Musicians, Singers
- Curriculum: Italian History, 18th Century European History, 17th Century European History
Article abstract: Scarlatti was the outstanding Italian composer of operas and cantatas active at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. His work brought fame to Naples as a center for operatic composition and performance, and provided the foundation for the so-called Neapolitan school of composers, though he and his musical style had little direct influence on them.
Early Life
Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti was the second of eight children of Pietro Scarlata (or Sgarlata) and his wife, Eleanora d’Amato, and the...
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