This presentation is about the D.Scarlatti classical period composer Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, also known as Domingo or Doménico Scarlatti, was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style. Born: October 26, 1685, Naples, Italy Died: July 23, 1757, Madrid, Spain Spouse: Anastasia Maxarti Ximenes (m. 1742), Maria Caterina Gentili (m. 1728–1742) Siblings: Pietro Filippo Scarlatti Place of burial: Convento de San Norberto Parents: Alessandro Scarlatti, Vittoria Ansalone

1. Domenico
scarlatti

2. • D.Scarlatti lived bettween Oct 26, 1685 - Jul 23, 1757
(age 71).
• Scharlatti’s full name is Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti.
• he was born from a musicusion family.
• Scharlattic a have brother he was Italian composer,
organist, and choirmaster.
• He spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese
and Spanish royal families.

3. • Sarlatti first studied music under his father.Other composers who
may have been his early teachers include Gaetano Greco,
Francesco Gasparini, and Bernardo Pasquini, all of whom may
have influenced his musical style.
• Scarlatti was appointed as composer and organist at the royal
chapel in Naples in 1701.In 1703 he revised Carlo Francesco
Pollarolo's opera Irene for performance at Naples.
• Scarlatti composed several operas for Queen Casimire's private
theatre. He was Maestro di Cappella at St. Peter's from 1715 to
1719. In 1719 he travelled to London to direct his opera Narciso at
the King's Theatre.

4. • Papal Nuncio in Portugal at the time, Scarlatti arrived in Lisbon on 29
November 1719. There he taught music to the Portuguese princess
Maria Magdalena Barbara. He left Lisbon on 28 January 1727 for
Rome, where he married Maria Caterina Gentili on 6 May 1728. In
1729 he moved to Seville, staying for four years. In 1733, he went to
Madrid as a music master to Princess Maria Barbara, who had married
into the Spanish royal house. She later became Queen of Spain.
Scarlatti remained in Spain for the remaining 25 years of his life and
had five children there. After his wife's death in 1739, he married a
Spaniard, Anastasia Maxarti Ximenes. Among his compositions during
his time in Madrid were most of the 555 keyboard sonatas for which he
is best known.

5. • Scarlatti died in Madrid, at
the age of 71. His
residence on Calle
Leganitos is designated
with a historical plaque,
and his descendants still
live in Madrid. He was
buried at a convent there,
but his grave no longer
exists.
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