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Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style and he was one of the few Baroque composers to transition into the classical period. Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas are single movements, mostly in binary form, and some in early…

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The interplay of historical events and inventive instrument making – violins providing the best example – led the transition from one period to the next. The Baroque Period, roughly the 17thand

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