Alessandro Scarlatti (May 2, 1660 - October 24, 1725) was a Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti. Wikipedia
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English : Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) was a Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of Domenico Scarlatti , also a Baroque composer. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Scarlatti
Alessandro Scarlatti (1659-1725), Italian musical composer, was born in Sicily , either at Trapani or Palermo , in 1659. He is generally said to have been a pupil of Carissimi in Rome , and there is reason to suppose that he had some connexion with north www.1911encyclopedia.org/Alessandro_Scarlatti
In the musical galaxy of baroque and classical composers the Scarlatti father and son duo must admittedly be assigned to the rank of "lesser suns." Yet, for discerning aficionados of such glorious music the two must indeed be considered and appreciated, www.bestofsicily.com/mag/art49.htm
Sicilian-born in 1660, Alessandro Scarlatti was trained in Rome. He married in 1678 and later that year was appointed Maestro di Cappella of San Giacomo degli Incurabili. His first large-scale oratorio-operatic works were performed there the following y www.baroquemusic.org/bqxascarl.html
This acclaimed edition of Scarlatti's operas is making available authentic versions of the works of one of the key figures in the history of opera. La Caduta (1697) is a pivotal work, bridging the composer's middle and late stylistic periods. It is the www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/SCAOP6.html
