Alessandro Scarlatti

Italy, 1679–1725

Founder of the Neapolitan opera school — over 60 operas and 600 cantatas that fixed the da capo aria and the Italian overture as the standard forms of late Baroque music.

MusicRoots documents 0 artists who influenced Alessandro Scarlatti and 2 artists Alessandro Scarlatti influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.

Which artists did Alessandro Scarlatti influence?

• Domenico Scarlatti — His father Alessandro was his first and principal teacher — the documented family apprenticeship of the Neapolitan school.
• Leonardo Leo — Not a teacher. Historians have shown Leo could not have studied with him and the story keeps needing correcting — but the debt in the writing is real, and Leo took over his post at the viceregal chapel when Scarlatti died in 1725.