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| Classical Composer: | Scarlatti, Domenico |
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| Work: | Keyboard Sonata in E Major, K.136/L.377/P.113 |
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| Duration: | 00:05:00 |
| Work Category: | Instrumental |
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The keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti survive in part in a number of eighteenth century manuscripts, some clearly from the collection of Queen Maria Barbara, possibly bequeathed to the great Italian castrato Farinelli, who was employed at the Spanish court, and now in Venice. Various sets of sonatas were published during the composer's lifetime, including a set of thirty issued, seemingly, in London in 1738, and 42 published in London by Thomas Roseingrave in 1739, including the thirty already available from the earlier publication. In more recent times, the sonatas were edited by Alessandro Longo, who provided the numerical listing under L., and in 1953, the American harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick offered a new listing, distinguished by the letter K. Stylistic grounds have suggested a further changed listing by Giorgio Pestelli, under the letter P., and proposing a new chronology, while Emilia Fadini, in a complete edition for Ricordi, offers a further re-ordering, based in part on the Venice volumes.
From the same primary source comes the Sonata in E major, K.136/L.377/P.113, suggested as the third of a possible triptych, characteristic in its leaps, arpeggios and use of imitative writing.
Writer: Keith Anderson
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