The later Neapolitan operas ( L'Amor volubiie e tiranno (1709) La Principessa fedele (1712) Tigrane, 1715, &c.) are showy and effective rather than profoundly emotional the instrumentation marks a great advance on previous work, since the main duty of accompanying the voice is thrown upon the string quartet, the harpsichord being reserved exclusively for the noisy instrumental ritornelli.
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Mitridate Eupatore, composed for Venice in 1707, contains music far in advance of anything that Scarlatti had written for Naples, both in technique and in intellectual power. The operas composed for Ferdinand de Medici are lost they would probably have given us a more favourable idea of his style, his correspondence with the prince showing that they were composed with a very sincere sense of inspiration. Caduta dei decemviri), influenced partly perhaps by the style of Bononcini and probably more by the taste of the viceregal court, his opera songs become more conventional and commonplace in rhythm, while his scoring is hasty and crude, yet not without brilliancy ( Eraclea, 1700), the oboes and trumpets being frequently used, and the violins often playing in unison. His best operas of this period are La Rosaura (1690, printed by the Gesellschaft fiir Musikforschung), and Pirro e Demetrio (1694), in which occur the songs "Rugiadose, odorose," "Ben ti sta, traditor." From about 1697 onwards ( La. By 1686 he had definitely established the "Italian overture" form (second edition of Dal male it bene), and had abandoned the ground bass and the binary air in two stanzas in favour of the ternary or da capo type of air. His early operas ( Gli Equivoci nel sembiante (1679) L' Honestd negli amori (1680) Pompeo (1683), containing the well-known airs "O cessate di piagarmi" and "Toglietemi la vita ancor," and others down to about 1685) retain the older cadences in their recitatives, and a considerable variety of neatly constructed forms in their charming little arias, accompanied sometimes by the string quartet, treated with careful elaboration, sometimes by the harpsichord alone. Scarlatti's music forms the most important link between the tentative "new music" of the 17th century and the classical school of the 18th, which culminated in Mozart. His last work on a large scale appears to have been the unfinished serenata for the marriage of the prince of Stigliano (1723) he died at Naples on the 24th of October 1725. By this time Naples seems to have become tired of his music the Romans, however, appreciated it better, and it was at the Teatro Capranica in Rome that he produced some of his finest operas ( Telemaco, 1718 Marco Attilio Regolo, 1719 Griselda, 1721), as well as some noble specimens of church music, including a mass for chorus and orchestra, composed in honour of St Cecilia for Cardinal Acquaviva in 1721.
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After visiting Venice and Urbino in 1707, he took up his duties at Naples again in 1708, and remained there until 1717. of Tuscany, for whose private theatre near Florence he composed operas, and of Cardinal Ottoboni, who made him his Maestro di Cappella, and procured him a similar post at the church of S Maria Maggiore in Rome (1703). In the interval he enjoyed the patronage of Ferdinand III. In 1702 he left Naples and did not return until the Spanish domination had been superseded by that of the Austrians.
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Here he produced a long series of operas, remarkable chiefly for their fluency, as well as other music for state occasions.
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In February 1684 he became Maestro di Cappella to the viceroy of Naples, through the intrigues of his sister, an opera singer, who was the mistress of an influential noble in that city. The production at Rome of his opera Gli Equivoci well' amore (1679) gained him the protection of Queen Christina of Sweden, and he became her Maestro di Cappella.
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He is generally said to have been a pupil of Carissimi in Rome, and there is reason to suppose that he had some connexion with northern Italy, since his early works show the influence of Stradella and Legrenzi. ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI (1659-1725), Italian musical composer, was born in Sicily, either at Trapani or Palermo, in 1659.