Sonata in C minor K.22 (Scarlatti)
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Sonata K.22 is the 22nd of Scarlatti’s 30 earliest Sonatas, published in London in late 1738 with the title “Essercizi per gravicembalo”. Although he qualified them as “exercises” he labeled the individual pieces “Sonatas ”which for him seems to indicate a one-movement composition in binary form. Scarlatti treated the harpsichord in a highly idiomatic manner and with this first set he made a technical musical contribution and gave innovative idea to fellow composers of the time. The main novelty of these sonatas consists in patterns of brilliant figurations, arpeggios, wide leaps, repeated notes and hand-crossing as it can be observed in Sonata K.22 which suggests it must have been written for a two-manual harpsichord.
