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Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

Italian composer who spent much of his career at the Spanish and Portuguese royal courts, teaching keyboard to a princess who would become Queen of Spain, and who left behind 555 keyboard sonatas unlike anything else being written in Europe at the time: full of hand-crossings, guitar-like strumming effects, and the sharp rhythmic snap of Iberian folk dance. He wrote almost nothing else, no symphonies, no operas of note, just sonata after sonata, each one a compact, often mischievous experiment in what two hands on a keyboard could do. Most weren't published in his lifetime; they survive largely through manuscript copies made for the queen he taught.

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The easiest Scarlatti on the shelf, in order. Nothing here is graded and nobody is ranked: the shelf simply puts the pieces that ask less of your hands before the ones that ask more.

Sonata A Major K. 323 A major · 1 min Folia Rhythmusvarianten zum weiter improvisieren C major · 1 min Akkord-Baustelle zur Folia D minor · <1 min Larghetto (Sonata K 34) for accordion pian D minor · <1 min Sonata D Major K. 346 D major · 2 min 24 F minor · 2 min Keyboard Sonata in G major K.391 G major · 2 min Sonata D Major K. 335 D major · 3 min Keyboard Sonata in B minor K.87 B minor · 4 min Già il sole dal Gange A♭ major · 2 min Keyboard Sonata in D major, K. 491 D major · 5 min Sonata D Major K. 345 D major · 3 min

Every Scarlatti score

Sonata C Minor K247 C♯ minor · 3 min Alessandro - Se Florindo e fedele High A♭ major · 2 min Sonata (Aria) K.32 D minor · <1 min Scarlaltti 36 G minor · 4 min Sonata in C minor (K158) C minor · 2 min Sonata K.64 (Longo 58) - PianoXML Edition F major · 2 min Sonata K 208 A major · 2 min Sonata in F minor K.466 F minor · 4 min Sonata K. 63 G major · 1 min Sonata in C major C major · 2 min Sonata in G minor G minor · 2 min Sonate en mi majeur K531-L430 E major · 2 min Alessandro - O cessate di piagarmi Low E minor · 1 min Sonata K. 138 D minor · 3 min Sonata in D major (K161) D major · 1 min Sonata in D Minor K.213 (The Lover) Scarlat D minor · 3 min Sonata K. 111 G minor · 2 min Fugue (Sonata) in C minor K58 L158 C minor · 2 min Sonate en si mineur - K27 B minor · 2 min Alessandro - Spesso vibra per suo gioco High A minor · 1 min Sonata in D minor K.1 D minor · 1 min

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If you are learning Scarlatti rather than only reading, the scale pages cover fingering in every key, the chord pages spell out every chord, and the symbol dictionary explains any mark on the page you do not recognise.

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