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Domenico Scarlatti

1685 - 1757

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Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) 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. 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. He spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Domenico Scarlatti is the 38th most popular composer (up from 51st in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from Italy (up from 202nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Italian Composer.

Domenico Scarlatti is most famous for his 555 keyboard sonatas.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Domenico Scarlatti ranks 38 out of 1,451. Before him are Sergei Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss, Sergei Prokofiev, Jean Sibelius, Béla Bartók, and Christoph Willibald Gluck. After him are Camille Saint-Saëns, Johann Strauss I, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Antonio Salieri, Gaetano Donizetti, and Jean-Baptiste Lully.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1685, Domenico Scarlatti ranks 4. Before him are Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, and Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor. After him are George Berkeley, Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, Brook Taylor, Johann Maria Farina, Jean-Marc Nattier, Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, John Gay, and Edward England. Among people deceased in 1757, Domenico Scarlatti ranks 1. After him are Osman III, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Maria Josepha of Austria, Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Princess Caroline of Great Britain, Rosalba Carriera, Robert-François Damiens, Johann Stamitz, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, Siraj ud-Daulah, and David Hartley.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Domenico Scarlatti ranks 169 out of 5,161. Before him are Cardinal Mazarin (1602), Antonio Gramsci (1891), Pope Eugene IV (1383), Enzo Ferrari (1898), Pliny the Elder (23), and Marcus Claudius Tacitus (200). After him are Pope Benedict IX (1012), Agatha of Sicily (235), Nerva (30), Pope Adrian I (700), Pope Gregory X (1210), and Bud Spencer (1929).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Domenico Scarlatti ranks 7. Before him are Antonio Vivaldi (1678), Giuseppe Verdi (1813), Giacomo Puccini (1858), Gioachino Rossini (1792), Claudio Monteverdi (1567), and Ennio Morricone (1928). After him are Antonio Salieri (1750), Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Tomaso Albinoni (1671), Guido of Arezzo (991), and Vincenzo Bellini (1801).

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