Word: scarlatti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patronage of art-loving, fun-loving King Gustavus III. When the King was murdered. Bellman lost his last job, was put in debtors' prison, got out just in time for a last party before he died. Bellman played the lute, consciously or unconsciously drew upon Bach, Mozart, Scarlatti for melodies. He seldom wrote a song down, let his friends transcribe, collect and publish part of his output. The "Last of the Troubadours" sang of tavern life, of trips to the country, of a ludicrous funeral procession, of his friends Movitz the painter, Mollberg the soldier, Ulla Winblad the kindly...
...Scarlatti: Eleven Sonatas (Robert Casadesus, pianist; Columbia, 6 sides). Domenico Scarlatti's sonatas, some of them uncommonly modern for his time (1685-1757), were what the word originally meant, pieces "to be sounded," dances, preludes, fugues, etc. Casadesus plays them fastidiously...
Joseph Haydn and Domenico Scarlatti: Piano Sonatas (Jacob Feuerring; Timely: 10 sides). Six light, early classics, well-performed, recorded like real life...
Harpsichord Recital" (Ralph Kirkpatrick; Musicraft: 12 sides). U. S. Harpsichordist Kirkpatrick, an authority on 17th and 18th Century composers, plays a representative anthology, including Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, two Scarlatti sonatas, two Purcell suites...
Preliminaries consisted of two rounds held in the Concert Hall of the Brussels Conservatoire Royal de Musique. First round: 1) a major composition by Johann Sebastian Bach; 2) Scarlatti's Sonata No. 461 in D Major; 3) a sonata chosen by the candidate. When the first round was over, twelve nations, including the U. S., had bitten the dust. The judges were wiping their foreheads, professional critics were well wilted. But stately, sad-eyed Queen Elisabeth, in her royal box, had listened unflinchingly to 88 consecutive performances of Scarlatti's Sonata. Among the 19 survivors of Round...