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Domenico Scarlatti, Italian harpsichord player and composer (born 1685)
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Domenico Scarlatti
Italian composer (1685–1757)
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style. Like his renowned father Alessandro Scarlatti, he composed in a variety of musical…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Harpsichord
Plucked-string keyboard instrument
A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, which in turn raises a mechanism with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic that plucks one or more strings. The strings are under tension on a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)