by Richard Steinitz
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~ Johann Sebastian Bach
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~ Domenico Scarlatti
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Not only the best examination of the subject which has appeared up to the present time, it is the only one commensurate with [Scarlatti's] true artistic stature, and the significance of his music to his time and ours.
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[Ralph Kirkpatrick has brought the composer to life as a man and as an artist against an eighteenth-century background as vigorous and as detailed as a picture by Canaletto.
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Not only the best examination of the subject which has appeared up to the present time, it is the only one commensurate with [Scarlatti's] true artistic stature, and the significance of his music to his time and ours.
(The New York Times )
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[Ralph Kirkpatrick has brought the composer to life as a man and as an artist against an eighteenth-century background as vigorous and as detailed as a picture by Canaletto.
(Virgil Thomson )
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In 1685 Naples was as populous, as noisy, and as dirty as it is now. Read the first page
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