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Scarlatti, [Giuseppe] Domenico (1685-1757) Italian composer; at first wrote
Italian opera, etc., on the model of his father (See Scarlatti, Alessandro),
and was known also as a harpsichord virtuoso; but went in 1720 to Portugal and
later to Spain (dying in Madrid) and there wrote the greater number of his
single-movement harpsichord sonatas. These, numbering over 550, and in their
time also called "Exercises" (It., Esercizi), exploit with great variety the
capabilities of the Binary-form movement, and foreshadow later Sonata-form.
(For the numbering of the sonatas, See Kirkpatrick, Ralph.) Other works include
a Stabat Mater and other church music.