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DOMENICO SCARLATTI: VIVI FELICE

Una presentazione del libro "Domenico Scarlatti 'Vivi felice', vita e opere di Scarlattino, Cavaliero di San Giacomo". Zecchini Editore, 2024. English translation below: «Those bitten by the tarantula perform the dance of the little spider as victims who are possessed by the beast, and as heroes who prevail over the beast by dancing it». A spell, in fact: a musical exorcism! Now, in order to perform a proper exorcism one needs either a priest, a shaman, or a sorcerer. Excluding the brief parentheses in Lisbon, where certain chronicles portray him as “Abbé”, Domenico was certainly no priest, and we have no notices indicating that he had any inclination towards shamanism. However, looking at his tarantellas (and this is an eloquent example), we can deduce that a sorcerer he was, and of what ilk! Irresistible rhythms, fulminating scales, horrifying skips, lightning fast trills and ornaments which mimick the tremors of the feverish, the whole engulfed in a few minutes of tumultuous and irrepressible music. Dear friends, good day. It has been quite some time since we were meeting every day in the company of the great Domenico Scarlatti. You have just herd his Sonata in g minor to which Ralph Kirkpatrick, in his catalogue, gave the number 43. In fact, the oldest and most accredited collection of Sonatas that we have, that made for Maria Barbara Queen of Spain and dated 1742, has this very Sonata as number 1. Domenico Scarlatti, a neapolitan by then firmly established in Spain, begins the first collection of his great Sonatas with a homage to his native city: a glorious tarantella. When my project “Scarlatti All Sonatas” was nearing its end, Roberto Zecchini asked me to write some thought about this immense composer. I quickly realised that in Italy there had not been a biography entirely devoted to Domenico Scarlatti in several decades. Thus, after a couple of years of research and work, this book was born: “Domenico Scarlatti, the life and works of Scarlattino, Knight of St. James”. In it, I have had the privilege of collating so much research done by many historians before me, and to assemble it in a new format. There are many curiosities. For example, Domenico traveled between the Iberian peninsula and Italy at least three times, and each time he choose to bear the dangers and the discomfort of the coach rather than opting for a swiftier and more comfortable maritime passage; an evident sign, I think, that Domenico suffered from seasickness! For me it has been a privilege to play his music, recount his life and, in the second half of the book, comment upon each of the Sonatas included in the Kirkpatrick catalogue. The book is enriched by a marvellous preface by Alberto Batisti and, should you feel like to enjoy more Scarlatti, I invite you to look for it on Zecchini's website. Good day to you.