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Expert(s) believe Scarlatti's name is where we get the current-day musical term "scatting" due to his love of vocal jazz. | Expert(s) believe Scarlatti's name is where we get the current-day musical term "scatting" due to his love of vocal jazz. | ||
== 555 Sonatas == | |||
Scarlatti wrote 555 sonatas<ref>IMSLP. (n.d.). Keyboard Sonatas, K.1-555 (Scarlatti, Domenico). IMSLP Petrucci Music Library. Retrieved October 6, 2024, from https://imslp.org/wiki/Keyboard_Sonatas,_K.1-555_(Scarlatti,_Domenico)</ref>. Since he lived for 71 years, this means he wrote 7,82<ref group=note> 3 significant figures.</ref> sonatas per year. He wrote approximately 141 sonatas by 18. Mozart might be a child prodigy but Mozart wrote less sonatas. Meanwhile Scarlatti wrote almost 8 sonatas before reaching 1 year old. | |||
== Trivia == | |||
In Fallout 4, the classical radio plays Scarlatti's Sonata in F minor (K 19), performed by Dubravka Tomšič. | |||
[[File:Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak.jpg|thumb|Tomšič in the studio recording for [[Todd Howard]] (not pictured).]] | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||