Canon
Where to start with Scarlatti, A.
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
Vocal36 Ariettas
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Orchestral5 Concerti Sacri
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KeyboardArpeggio, Fuga, and Corrente, for keyboard
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StageCarlo re d'Allemagna
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ChamberFlute Sonata in G
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Orchestral6 Concerti grossi, "6 concerti in 7 parts"
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Vocal7 Arie con tromba sola, for voice, trumpet and continuo
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VocalA battaglia, pensieri, chamber cantata for soprano, alto, 2 violins, cello, double bass, trumpet, mandola and continuo
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VocalAbramo, il tuo sembiante, cantata for soloists, chorus, 2 oboes, strings and continuo
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VocalAgar et Ishmaele esiliati, oratorio for soloists, strings and continuo
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VocalAmmore brutto figlio de pottana, chamber cantata for tenor and continuo
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VocalAndate, o miei sospiri, chamber cantata for soprano and continuo
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VocalArdo, è ver, per te d'amore, chamber cantata for soprano, flute and continuo
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VocalArsi un tempo e l'ardore
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VocalAudi filia, et inclina aurem, for chorus, oboe, 2 violins, viola, and organ
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Scarlatti, A.'s catalogueMost Popular
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Stabat Mater
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Sinfonie di concerto grosso
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O cessate di piagarmi (cantata)
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Il Tigrane (opera)
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Su le sponde del Tebro (cantata)
Most Acclaimed
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600+ cantatas (selections)
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Stabat Mater
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Gli equivoci nel sembiantethe first Roman comic opera
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Flute Concertos
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Messa di Santa Cecilia
Most Weird
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Stabat Materamong the most emotionally intense settings of the era — chromatic writing under the influence of his late cantata style
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Gli equivoci nel sembiantethe first Roman comic opera — a breakthrough in operatic history
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Su le sponde del Tebrocantata — formally among his most elaborate
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Keyboard Toccatashis keyboard works are almost unknown — virtuosic and harmonically surprising
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La Statira (opera)his first Roman opera — 1690; ambitious historically
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 216
- Vocal
- 36 Ariettas
- 7 Arie con tromba sola, for voice, trumpet and continuo
- A battaglia, pensieri, chamber cantata for soprano, alto, 2 violins, cello, double bass, trumpet, mandola and continuo
- Abramo, il tuo sembiante, cantata for soloists, chorus, 2 oboes, strings and continuo
- Agar et Ishmaele esiliati, oratorio for soloists, strings and continuo
- Ammore brutto figlio de pottana, chamber cantata for tenor and continuo
- Andate, o miei sospiri, chamber cantata for soprano and continuo
- Ardo, è ver, per te d'amore, chamber cantata for soprano, flute and continuo
- Arsi un tempo e l'ardore
- Audi filia, et inclina aurem, for chorus, oboe, 2 violins, viola, and organ
- Augellin vago e canoro, chamber cantata for soprano, 2 flutes, and continuo
- Ave maris stella, hymn for chorus and continuo
- Benedicta et venerabilis es, gradual for soprano, chorus, 2 violins, viola, and continuo
- Cain overo Il primo omicidio, oratorio for soloists, strings and continuo
- Cara e dolce
- Del lagrimoso lido, chamber cantata for soprano and continuo, "Euridice dall'Inferno"
- Difesa non ha
- Dixit Dominus no. 4, soloists, chorus, 3 violins and continuo
- Dixit Dominus, for chorus and organ
- Ebra d'amor fuggia, for soprano and chamber ensemble
- Elitropio d'amor, for soprano or mezzo-soprano and continuo
- Endimione e Cintia, serenata for 2 sopranos and instruments
- Erminia, serenata for soloists, chorus and instruments
- Ferma omai, fugace e bella, for alto, 2 violins, viola and continuo
- Fileno, Niso e Doralbo: Serenata a Filli, for 2 sopranos, alto and chamber ensemble
- Filli, tu sai s'io t'amo, for soprano, 2 recorders and continuo
- Humanità e Lucifero, oratorio for soprano, tenor, piccolo, trumpet, strings and continuo
- Il Martirio di S. Cecilia, oratorio for 4 voices and orchestra
- Il Prigionier Fortunato, Sinfonia, for soprano, trumpet and orchestra
- Il Sedecia, re di Gerusalemme, oratorio for soloists, chorus, instruments and continuo
- Il giardino di rose: La SS Vergine del Rosario, for soloists and orchestra
- Il martirio di S Teodosia, oratorio
- Il regno di Maria assunta in cielo, oratorio
- Il trionfo della gratia, oratorio for soloists, strings and continuo, "Santa Maria Maddalena"
- Infirmata, vulnerata, for alto, 2 violins and continuo
- L'assunzione della Beata Vergine Maria, for 2 sopranos, 2 altos, strings and continuo
- La Giuditta, oratorio for soloists, 2 flutes, trumpet, trombones, strings and continuo
- La concettione della beata vergine, oratorio for soloists, strings and continuo
- La gloria di primavera, serenata for soloists, chorus and instruments
- La speranza que lusinga, chamber cantata for soprano and continuo
- Laetatus sum, for chorus
- Laetatus sum, for chorus, 2 violins and continuo
- Lamentazioni per la Settimana Santa
- Lascia più di tormentarmi amor tiranno, chamber cantata for soprano and continuo
- Lauda Jerusalem Dominum, offertory for chorus and organ
- Laudate pueri Dominum, for soprano, chorus, 2 violins, viola and continuo
- Laudate pueri Dominum, for soprano, chorus, 2 violins, viola and continuo
- Lontan da la sua Clori, chamber cantata for soprano and continuo
- Magnificat, for chorus and organ
- Magnificat, for soloists, chorus, 2 violins, viola, and continuo in D
- Messa per il Santissime Natale in A major, for double chorus, 2 violins and continuo
- Mori, mi dici
- Mortales non auditis, for soprano, alto, 2 violins, and continuo
- Nisi Dominus aedificaverit, for soprano, alto, chorus, 2 violins and continuo
- Non sò qual più m'ingombra, chamber cantata for soprano, 2 violins and continuo, "Cantata Pastorale"
- O cessate di piagarmi
- O dolcissima speranza
- O morte, a gli altri fosca, a me serena
- O selce, o tigre, o ninfa
- Oh di Betlemme altera povertà, chamber cantata for soprano and strings, "Cantata pastorale per la natività di Nostre Signore"
- Oratorio per la Passione di Nostro Signore Gesu Cristo, for 2 sopranos, alto, choir and orchestra
- Per un momento solo, chamber cantata for soprano or alto and continuo, "Lo sfortunato"
- Qual mia colpa, o sventura... Se diletto è l'avorarvi
- Quella pace gradita, chamber cantata for soprano, flute, violin, cello and continuo
- Salve Regina no. 1, for soprano, alto, 2 violins and continuo
- Salve Regina no. 3, for soprano, 3 violins, and continuo
- Salve regina, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
- San Filippo Neri, oratorio for soloists, trumpet, strings, lute and continuo
- Sdegno la fiamma estinse
- Se Florindo e fedele
- Sento nel core certo dolore, for soprano or alto and continuo
- Serafini al nostro canto, cantata for 3 voices and instruments
- Sole, Urania e Clio: Le muse Urania e Clio lodano le bellezze di Filli, for 2 sopranos, alto and chamber ensemble
- Son io, barbara donna, chamber cantata for alto and continuo
- Spesso vibra per suo gioco
- St. John Passion, for alto, bass, chorus, strings and continuo
- Stabat Mater, for soprano, alto, 2 violins and continuo
- Su la sponda del mare, for soprano and chamber ensemble
- Su le sponde del Tebro, for soprano, 2 violins, trumpet and continuo
- Su, venite a consiglio, for voice and piano
- Totus amore languens, for alto, 2 violins and continuo
- Tu sei quella che al nome, chamber cantata for alto, 2 violins, flute and continuo, "Bella donna di nome santa"
- Venere e Adone: Il giardino d'amore, serenata
- Vespers of Saint Cecilia, for soloists, chorus, and orchestra
- Orchestral
- 5 Concerti Sacri
- 6 Concerti grossi, "6 concerti in 7 parts"
- Flute Concerto in D
- Sinfonie di concerto grosso no. 1 in F major, for 2 flutes, 2 violins, viola, cello and continuo
- Sinfonie di concerto grosso no. 10 in A minor, for flute, 2 violins, viola, cello and continuo
- Sinfonie di concerto grosso no. 11 in C for flute, 2 violins, viola, cello and continuo
- Sinfonie di concerto grosso no. 12 in C minor, for flute, 2 violins, viola, cello and continuo
- Sinfonie di concerto grosso no. 2 in D major, for flute, trumpet, 2 violins, viola, cello and continuo
- Sinfonie di concerto grosso no. 3 in D minor, for flute, 2 violins, viola, cello and continuo
- Sinfonie di concerto grosso no. 4 in E minor, for flute, oboe, 2 violins, viola, cello and continuo
- Sinfonie di concerto grosso no. 4, for flute, oboe, 2 violins, viola, cello, and continuo in E minor
- Sinfonie di concerto grosso no. 5 in D minor, for 2 flutes, 2 violins, viola, cello and continuo
- Sinfonie di concerto grosso no. 6 in A minor, for flute, 2 violins, viola, cello and continuo
- Sinfonie di concerto grosso no. 7 in G minor, for flute, 2 violins, viola, cello and continuo
- Sinfonie di concerto grosso no. 8 in G major, for flute, 2 violins, viola, cello and continuo
- Sinfonie di concerto grosso no. 9 in G minor, for flute, 2 violins, viola, cello and continuo
- Keyboard
- Arpeggio, Fuga, and Corrente, for keyboard
- Fugue, primo tono in D minor
- Fugue, secondo tono in G minor
- Fugue, terzo tono in A minor
- Gavotte
- Introduzione quarta
- Labyrintho de Labyrinthos: Interludio
- Moderato in Do minore, Torino, Bibl. Nazionale Universitaria, Fondo Foà-Giordano, Ms. 394:ASOT II,
- Partite varie in C
- Primo e secondo libro di Toccate, for keyboard
- Toccata
- Toccata Alessandro Scarlatti in Re minore, Firenze
- Toccata Per Cembalo Del Sig. Scarlatti in Fa magg, Torino, Fond
- Toccata Scarlatti Primo Tono, Torino, Fondo Foà-Giorgano, Ms.401
- Toccata and 2 Fugues, for keyboard
- Toccata and Balletto in A minor
- Toccata aperta d'Organo, Balletto, Vivace in A minor
- Toccata aperta d'organo
- Toccata d'intavolatura in D minor, "d'ottava stesa' or 'Primo Tono"
- Toccata for keyboard
- Toccata for keyboard
- Toccata for keyboard
- Toccata for keyboard
- Toccata for keyboard
- Toccata for keyboard
- Toccata for keyboard in A minor
- Toccata for keyboard in A minor
- Toccata for keyboard in A minor
- Toccata for keyboard in D minor
- Toccata for keyboard in E minor, Turin Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria MS
- Toccata for keyboard in F
- Toccata for keyboard in G
- Toccata for keyboard in G a
- Toccata in A
- Toccata in A minor
- Toccata in C
- Toccata in D
- Toccata in Do magg. Torino, Fondo Foà-Giorgano, Ms.394:ASOT, II, pp
- Toccata in F
- Toccata in G
- Toccata in G minor
- Toccata in Re magg.
- Toccata in Sol magg, Torino, Fondo Foà-Giorgano, Ms.394:ASOT, II
- Toccata in Sol magg.
- Toccata no. 1
- Toccata no. 11
- Toccata no. 2
- Toccata no. 3
- Toccata no. 4
- Toccata per Cembalo del Sig. Cav. Alessandro Scarlatti in Do magg.
- Toccata per cembalo in Re minore
- Toccata, Allegro, Andante, Adagio assai, Andante, Adagio, Fuga Allegro assai in C
- Toccata, Arpeggio in G
- Toccata, Arpeggio, Allegro, Arpeggio, Follia in D minor
- Toccata, Arpeggio, Fuga in C
- Toccata, Arpeggio, Fuga in G
- Toccata, Fuga Primo Tono in D minor
- Toccata, Fuga in A minor
- Toccata, Fuga in D minor
- Toccata, Fuga, Allegro in D
- Toccata, Fuga, Allegro, Corrente in G minor
- Toccata, Fuga, Allegro, Minuetto, Presto in E minor
- Toccata, Giga in A
- Toccata, Grave, Allegro, Presto, Minuetto in A minor
- Toccata, Largo, Allegro, Fuga in A minor
- Toccata, Minuetto in A
- Toccata, Un poco Largo, Allegro in D
- Toccata, for keyboard, Turino Fondo Foà-Giordano MS 394
- Toccata, for organ
- Variazioni sulla Follia
- Varie Partite obligate al basso in C
- Vivace in La minore, Torino, Fondo Foà-Giorgano, Ms.401:ASOT, II, p.95
- Stage
- Carlo re d'Allemagna
- Gli equivoci in amore, o vero La Rosaura — Opera
- Il Flavio — Opera
- Il Mitridate Eupatore — Opera
- Il Pirro e Demetrio
- Il Pompeo — Opera
- Il Prigioniero fortunato — Opera
- L'honestà negli amori — Opera
- La Didone delirante, opera
- La Griselda — Opera
- La Statira — Opera
- La caduta de' Decemviri — Opera
- La donna ancora è fedele
- Leonzio ed Eurilla,
- Pericca e Varrone,
- Telemaco — Opera
- Chamber
- Flute Sonata in G
- Flute Suite in F
- Flute Suite in G
- Keyboard Sonata in E
- Sonata a quattro in D minor, for chamber ensemble
- Sonata in A major, for 2 flutes, 2 violins and continuo
- Sonata in F for 3 Flutes and Continuo
- Sonata in F for Flute, 2 Violins and Continuo
- Sonata in F major, for chamber ensemble
- Sonata in F major, for recorder and continuo
- Sonata in G major, for recorder and continuo
- Sonata in G minor, for chamber ensemble
- Sonata no. 1, for flute and chamber ensemble
- Sonata no. 12 in C minor, for chamber ensemble
- Sonata no. 2 in A minor for Flute, 2 Violins, Cello and Continuo
- Sonata no. 2 in A minor, for flute, 2 violins, cello and continuo
- Sonata no. 21 in A minor, for chamber ensemble
- Sonata no. 22 in A major, for chamber ensemble
- Sonata no. 24 in G minor, for chamber ensemble
- Sonata no. 3 in C minor for Flute, 2 Violins, Cello and Continuo
- Sonata no. 4 in A minor for Flute, 2 Violins, Cello and Continuo
- Sonata no. 5 in A major, for flute, 2 violins, cello and continuo
- Sonata no. 6 in C for Flute, 2 Violins, Cello and Continuo
- Sonata no. 6 in C major, for flute, 2 violins, cello and continuo
- Sonata no. 7 in D major, for chamber ensemble
- Sonata no. 7 in G minor for Flute, 2 Violins, Cello and Continuo
- Sonata no. 9 in A minor, for chamber ensemble
- Sonate a quattro no. 4 in D minor for String Quartet, "Quartet Sonata"