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T1 'Toccate per Cimbalo del Signor Domenico Scarlatti': An Unexplored Early Source
A1 Pedrero Encabo, Águeda Asunción
A2 Fonts Artis Musicae
K1 Musicología
K1 Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757)
K1 6203.06 Música, Musicología
AB English AbstractThe loss of musical autographs by Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757) makes it difficult to date andestablish a reliable chronological order for his keyboard sonatas. A previously unexplored sourcenow sheds new light on the composer’s early period: a manuscript contained in a miscellaneouscodex preserved at the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal in Paris (F-Pa MS-6785 (F-Pa Ms-6785, [https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc86681q]). This source includes a collection of twentyonesonatas by Scarlatti, copied by two anonymous scribes.This article examines the activity of each copyist and the paper’s watermarks. The findingsindicate that the manuscript originated in France, and was based on drafts of individual sonatasstemming from an Italian context. A philological analysis confirms that this new source derivesfrom Scarlatti’s autographs. A comparison between this manuscript and the first pieces publishedin Paris (Pièces choisies pour le clavecin ou l’orgue [Boivin, 1737]) reveals that it could not havebeen based on that edition, nor on its antigraphs. Rather, it must have arrived in France at anearlier date, derived from an Italian antigraph. This source represents the most extensive survivingcollection of early sonatas circulating in manuscript from across Europe prior to the printeddissemination of Scarlatti’s keyboard works.
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/80582
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/80582
LA eng
NO Didáctica de la Expresión Musical, Plástica y Corporal GIR: MAEP
DS UVaDOC
RD 11-feb-2026