SCARLATTI: SONATA K198/L22
What was the creative spark that suddenly led Scarlatti, in his maturity, to obsessively explore a single genre: the one-movement Sonata in binary form? Was it the Iberian charm, the death of his father Alessandro in 1725, or perhaps even the invention of the fortepiano? Was it an inner compulsion to break free of his own musical past, marked as it was by his rather insignificant exploration of already well-trodden musical paths? Those are all unanswered questions, but one thing at least is for sure: Scarlatti spoke a new language, compared to everything around or within him.
‘REINVENTING GUITAR’ EDITIONS – COLLECTION: Baroque – CATALOGUE Nr: RGBC 03
This is Smaro Gregoriadou’s arrangement of Sonata K198/L22 by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757).
Arranged for standard guitar tuning and/or for every available tuning of Kertsopoulos Aesthetics. Available in printed and digital versions.
Printed in Greece, first published in 2024. Copyright ©2024 by Smaro Gregoriadou & ‘REINVENTING GUITAR’ EDITIONS
Included in Smaro’s CD album: Reinventing guitar Vol. 2 by DELOS. Interpreted on a double-course pedal guitar of Kertsopoulos Aesthetics.
Sonata in E minor, K198/L22 is a toccata in two-part writing, with a pedal point in the development and certain chords in the closing cadences. As in Sonata K1, the tonal layout proceeds straightforwardly. The intensive repetition of certain motives infuses the general flow with an electric tension that is finally resolved in the closing passages of the work’s sections – especially the sonorous cadences.