Domenico Scarlatti

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) was born in Naples, which was then part of the Kingdom of Spain. The son of the renowned composer Alessandro Scarlatti, he spent most of his life working for the Spanish crown. Though he wrote in a variety of genres, he is best known for more than 500 keyboard sonatas that he wrote, which helped serve as a transition between the Baroque and Classical eras of music.