![]() Here he produced a long series of operas, remarkable chiefly for their fluency and expressiveness, as well as other music for state occasions. In February 1684 he became maestro di cappella to the viceroy of Naples, through the influence of his sister, an opera singer, who was the mistress of an influential Neapolitan noble. The production at Rome of his opera Gli Equivoci nell sembiante (1679) gained him the protection of Queen Christina of Sweden (who at the time was living in Rome), and he became her maestro di cappella. He is generally said to have been a pupil of Giacomo Carissimi in Rome, and there is reason to suppose that he had some connection with northern Italy, since his early works show the influence of Stradella and Giovanni Legrenzi. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.Īlessandro Scarlatti was born in Palermo, then part of the Kingdom of Sicily. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. ![]() Born: Palermo, then part of the Kingdom of Sicily, ItalyĪlessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas.
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