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Topic: Looking for Scarlatti Sonatas in Fugue form  (Read 1446 times)

Offline rafant

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Looking for Scarlatti Sonatas in Fugue form
on: July 26, 2005, 03:15:40 PM
My teacher is not an Scarlatti's fan, but since I am, in choosing the next Scarlatti's sonata I was going to learn, I showed to her the score of the Sonata K87, saying "I think you will like this piece". She sightread it from start to finish, and felt in love immediately with it. She praised its beauty and above all its style as a typical baroque piece. Then she asked to me "Isn't there more like this for my own playing?".

Besides the "Cat's fugue" sonata, which ones could I suggest to her? Thanks in advance.

Offline bernhard

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Re: Looking for Scarlatti Sonatas in Fugue form
Reply #1 on: July 26, 2005, 03:29:00 PM
Only five Scarlatti fugues are known (maybe more will be discovered in the future): K30 (the “Cat’s fugue”), k41, k58, k93, k417.

There is an excellent edition of the five edited by Richard Jones:

Scarlatti: The five fugues (ABRSM)

Best wishes,
Bernhard.
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