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Updated: July 13, 2025
Again he came across the unfamiliar, the strange, the obviously distinguished Grieg's "Arabian Dance"; "Es war ein Traum" by Lassen; "Elegie" by Massenet; "Otidi" by Davydoff; "Nymphs and Shepherds" by Purcell things whose very titles smacked of color and beauty. Gluck, Sgambati, Rossini, Tschaikowsky the Italian Scarlatti Eugene marvelled at what he did not know about music.
Four years before he had met, at Naples, Scarlatti, Porpora, and Corelli. That year had been the turning-point in his life. With one stride he reached the front rank, and felt that no musician alive could teach him anything. Like German literature, German music is a comparatively recent growth.
"I don't doubt there are conclusive reasons in mere justice, too," said he. After dinner, at the Cardinal's invitation, the Duchessa went to the piano, and played Bach and Scarlatti. Her face, in the soft candlelight, as she discoursed that "luminous, lucid" music, Peter thought... But what do lovers always think of their ladies' faces, when they look up from their pianos, in soft candlelight?
He fashioned many charming turns of expression, introduced an occasional tempo rubato, foreshadowed the intellectual element in music and laid the corner-stone of modern piano-playing. The style of Scarlatti is peculiarly the product of Italian love of beautiful tone, and what he wrote, though without depth of motive, kept well in view the technical possibilities of the harpsichord.
Corelli, Pasquini and Alessandro Scarlatti were all admitted together in 1705; they were the three senior and most distinguished composers of the time, and as no other musicians were then members, it may be assumed that these elections constituted an exceptional honour.
Katherine became so rapt she drew closer and closer, until at last she stood beside St. Mar. He became confused and halted, and finally left off altogether and turned to read the admiration in the azure blue of her eyes. "Thou art from France, and dost thou know many of the great musicians?" "Aye, a great many " "Hast thou met the great Alessandro Scarlatti?
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