Its great for students to know the "famous" facts about Scarlatti.Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
• Composer Domenico Scarlatti was born in Italy in 1685, the same year as J.S. Bach and George F. Handel.
• Scarlatti composed more than 500 keyboard sonatas!
• Scarlatti wrote many of his sonatas for his harpsichord students. Today his sonatas are often performed on the piano.
• A story is told about Scarlatti’s cat stepping on several harpsichord keys, one by one. When Scarlatti heard his cat play these notes, he wrote “The Cat’s Fugue,” a piece for harpsichord in G minor.
To learn more, visit Alberti Publishing.
Illustration by Heidi Cabrera
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