Alexander Scarlatti Biography

The country of Italy is a man whose artistic heritage is currently reduced by Rollan Italian composer A. The composer’s biography is still replete with white spots. This is especially true for his childhood and early youth.

For a long time it was believed that Scarlatti was born in a trapan, but then it was found that he was a native of Palermo. It is not known exactly where and from whom the future composer studied. However, given that with the city of Karissimi as one of his possible teachers. The first significant success of the composer is connected with Rome. Here in the city of Rome, the composer entered the so -called “Arkadian Academy” - the Commonwealth of Poets and Musicians, created as the Center for the Protection of Italian Poetry and the eloquence of the conventions of pompous and elaborate art of the 17th century.

At the Scarlatti Academy and his son Domenico met with A. Corelli, B. Marcello, young G. Handel and sometimes competed with them. From G. Scarlatti settled in Naples. There he first worked as a capmerist of the San Bartolomeo Theater, and from the GG. At the same time, he Jesal music for Rome. In and in gg. In recent years, he spent in Naples, engaged in teaching in one of the conservatory of the city.

Among his students, D. Scarlatti, A. Hasse, F. today are the creative activity of Scarlatti, are most famous. He composed near the operas, from above the cantat, no less mass, many oratorios, motes, Madrigalov, orchestral and other works; He was the compiler of the methodological manual for the training of the game on digital bass. However, Scarlatti's most important merit is that he created in his work the type of opera-seria, which later became the standard for composers.

Scarlatti's work has deep origins. Scarlatti’s opera work is distinguished by a subtle sense of drama, findings in the area of ​​the orchestration, a special taste for harmonious courage. However, perhaps, the main dignity of his scores is arias, saturated with either a noble cantilent, then expressive-pathetic virtuosity. It is in them that the main expressive power of his operas is concentrated, typical emotions are embodied in typical situations: sorrow in the Lamento aria, love idyll-in pastorals or sicilian, heroic in bravura, genre-in a light aria of a song and dance character.

Scarlatti chose a wide variety of plots for his operas: mythological, historical-legendary, comedy-household. However, the plot was not crucial, because it was perceived by the composer as the basis for the music disclosure by the emotional side of the drama, the wide range of human feelings and experiences. The characters of the actors, their personality, the reality or unreality of events taking place in the opera were secondary to the composer.

In Opera Music, Scarlatti has a lot of enduring value. However, the scale of talent of the composer was by no means equal to its popularity in Italy. His life, ”R. Rollan writes,“ was much more difficult than he had to write in order to earn his bread, in an era, when the taste of the public became more frivolous and when others, more dexterous or less conscientious composers knew how to achieve her love, he possessed balances and a clear mind, more almost unknown among the Italians of his era.

The true students of Scarlatti are in Germany. He had a fluent, but strong effect on the young Handel; In particular, he influenced the Hass if we recall the glory of the Hasse, if we recall that he reigned in Vienna, was connected with I.