Scarlatti, Alessandro
Scarlatti, Scarlata, Pietro Filippo, *5 January 1679 Rome, † 22 February 1750 Naples, Italian organist and composer, born into a family of Sicilian musicians, the eldest son and probably a pupil of Alessandro Scarlatti. Between 1705 and 1708 he was maestro di cappella at Urbino Cathedral; he subsequently settled in Naples and in 1712 became a musician at the royal court, serving as one of the reserve organists of the royal chapel. In 1728, his dramma per musica Clitarco o sia Il più fedel tra gli amici (now lost, presumably Pietro Scarlatti’s only opera) was staged in Naples. Among the few of Pietro Scarlatti’s compositions preserved in manuscripts are solo cantatas and toccatas from the years 1739–42 (ed. M. Machella in the collection Pietro Scarlatti. Composizioni per organo o cembalo, Padua 2000).
Literatura: H. Springer Das Partitur-Autograph von Giuseppe Scarlattis bisher verschollener “Clemenza di Tito”, in Festschrift for P. Schenke, Berlin 1913; P. Fienga La véritable patrie et la famille d’Alessandro Scarlatti and Giuseppe Scarlatti et son incertaine ascendance directe, “La Revue Musicale” VIII, 1932 and XIII, 1933; Gli Scarlatti. Note e documenti sulla vita e sulle opere, Siena 1940; C. Sartori Gli Scarlatti a Napoli, “Rivista Musicale Italiana” XLVI, 1942; O. Tiby La famiglia Scarlatti. Nuove ricerche e documenti, “Journal of Renaissance and Baroque Music” I, 1946/47; N.A. Solar-Quintes Documentos sobre la familia de Domenico Scarlatti, “Anuario musical” IV, 1949; U. Prota-Giurleo I congiunti di Alessandro Scarlatti, in: Celebrazione del 3o centenario della nascita di Alessandro Scarlatti, Naples 1960.