PREVIOUS COMMENTS => [@AegonCouperin/ 1 year ago/ 4 likes] há 1 ano Could this sonata be a reminiscence of the duel between Scarlatti and Handel ? From measure 1 to 7 you have a call and response as if they were facing each other. Measure 35 (2:00) makes me think Handel's Passacaglia though it's a common harmonic march. It's thin but I'd like to imagine Scarlatti giving an hommage to Handel :) I'm also biased due to this video : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DiMZ4QQnQNU.html => [@Ed_UKation/ 1 year ago/ 1 like] Interesting. This Sonata has few of Scarlatti's typical features. It sounds like Scarlatti is imitating other Baroque composers here. Does sound rather Handelian. 1 answer: [@Ed_UKation/ 1 year ago/ 2 likes] Or perhaps it is actually a very early Sonata, before Scarlatti developed so much of his own style?? => [@zewensenpai/ 1 year ago/ 0 likes] Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.35
I like to think that this is more a instructional piece. there are some critiques of Scarlatti's works, but I think those occur because one mistaken works like this which are conventional and a pedagogical instruction of composition ( harmonic outline, sequences etc. ) as a serious attempt at something beautiful.
True, this is far from the picturesque associations that are normally considered characteristic of Scarlatti. I personally wonder if this piece wasn't inspired by Central European/German musical trends because it is so distinctively lacking in associative guitar figurations or other 'Spanish' or 'Italianate' gestures. Perhaps Scarlatti or one of his pupils had been to or been visited by a German musician and wanted to or was asked to try his hand at the two-part invention style. Pure conjecture, of course.
