22nd February 2026 , Sandford Church, 3 pm
Marianna Prjevalskaya
Domenico Scarlatti and his vast output of 555 keyboard sonatas significantly
influenced the stylistic development of European keyboard music in the second half
of the eighteenth century. Subsequent to the earliest publications of his sonatas in
France and England, and the endorsement by such prominent figures as Clementi and
Czerny, Scarlatti’s keyboard music circulated widely throughout Europe, influencing
major composers active in the following hundred years. Due to his decades of work
in the Iberian Peninsula, a concentrated Scarlattian influence was felt in central Spain
where his keyboard works were very well known and circulated among organists.
Composers such as José de Nebra, Sebastián de Albero, and Padre Antonio Soler were
in direct contact with Scarlatti while he served at the Spanish royal court. Through
these connections, his contemporaries had a chance to absorb and assimilate his style,
as well as to get to know Scarlatti as a performer, teacher, and composer. This lecture
will concentrate on Domenico Scarlatti’s professional life in Portugal and Spain and
his connection with great musicians of his time.