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Alessandro Scarlatti
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Dinko Fabris
  • LAST REVIEWED: 30 October 2019
  • LAST MODIFIED: 30 October 2019
  • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199757824-0266

  • Della Libera, Luca, and Paologiovanni Maione, eds. Devozione e passione: Alessandro Scarlatti nella Napoli e Roma barocca. Naples, Italy: Turchini, 2014.

    Proceedings of the 2010 conference held in Rome and Naples, with articles by Bossa, Ciolfi, Cotticelli, De Frutos, Della Libera, Domínguez, Dubowy, Fiore and Maione, Gialdroni, Griffin, Iacono, Monferrini, Sullo, Tozzi, Agostino Ziino, and Maria Adele Ziino.

  • Dent, Edward J. “Catalogue of the Extant Works of Alessandro Scarlatti, with the Libraries Where the Mss. Are to Be Found.” In Alessandro Scarlatti: His Life and Works. By Edward J. Dent, 206–232. London: Arnold, 1905.

    The list of works, already organized by genres and very accurate for the time, was the main source used for almost a century by all Scarlatti’s scholars. It is useful for identifying scores that seemed to have been lost during the two world wars and have subsequently re

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    Sicilian-born in 1660, Alessandro Scarlatti was trained in Rome. He married in 1678 and later that year was appointed Maestro di Cappella of San Giacomo degli Incurabili. His first large-scale oratorio-operatic works were performed there the following year when he was only 19. His patrons from the outset were of the highest rank, among them the exiled Queen Christina of Sweden who made him her Maestro di Cappella, Cardinal Pamphili, and the musically indefatigable Cardinal Ottoboni and, in Florence, Prince Ferdinando de Medici.

    In 1684 at the age of 24 Scarlatti moved to Naples, where he was appointed Maestro di Cappella at the vice-regal court of Naples, at the same time as his brother Francesco was made First Violinist. It was alleged that they owed their appointments to the intrigues of one of their sisters with two court officials, who were dismissed.

    For the next two decades over half the new operas given at Naples were by Scarlatti, producing over 40 works, which were first performed at the Viceregal Palazzo Reale and then at the public theatre of S. Bartolomeo, whe

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    Biography of the Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti by Rosalind Halton

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    No Italian baroque composer produced more varied or more vividly singable music in his time than Alessandro Scarlatti. A compulsive worker, driven perhaps by the poverty of his childhood in famine-stricken Sicily, he made an early success as an opera composer in Rome, gaining the favour and protection of Queen Cristina of Sweden. With both his sisters giving rise to scandal and gossip, Alessandro and other members of his family left Rome in 1684 for Naples, where he took up the position of maestro di cappella at the vice-regal Court. A year later, in 1685, his most famous son, Domenico, was born. More successful operas followed, but Scarlatti was equally involved in the more intimate genre of the cantata. 

    By 1700 political instability at the court in Naples led him to look elsewhere, first to Prince Ferdinando de’ Medici in 1702. He received a few opera contracts – resulting in the composition of the operas he regarded as his best (Lucio Manlio, and

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