Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site esc-bb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!oakhill!cyb-eng!esc-bb!brad From: brad@esc-bb.UUCP (Brad Benton) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Re: Happy birthday JSB! *** and DS! *** Message-ID: <128@esc-bb.UUCP> Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 02:10:37 EST Article-I.D.: esc-bb.128 Posted: Sun Jan 13 02:10:37 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 04:37:13 EST References: <3219@alice.UUCP> <190@ihu1m.UUCP> <19243@lanl.ARPA> Organization: Eclipse Systems Corp., Austin, TX Lines: 27 > > But let's not forget that it's also the 300th anniversary > > of the birthday of Domenico Scarlatti. > > Well, I looked up D. Scarlatti in a dictionary, which gave the year of > his birth as 1683. To be sure, though, 1985 is also the 300th anniversary > of George Frederick Handel (or Georg Friedrich Haendel, if you prefer) > and the 400th of Heinrich Schuetz. I'm afraid your dictionary is in error. Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was born in Naples on Oct. 26, 1685, the sixth of ten children. Now, he did have a sister, Flaminia Anna Caterina, who was born on April 10, 1683. Handel was born in 1685 in Germany, where the German spelling of his name, as given above, is still prefered today. However, he lived for a while in Italy, and eventually made England his permanent home. And in each place he spelled his name according to the local norms: in Italy it was Hendel, and then Handel in England. Although there are various spellings of his first names, he generally used George Frideric (no, that's not a typo, it's Frideric). BTW, while he was in Italy (1706-1710), he certainly made the acquaintance of both Domenico and Alessandro Scarlatti (Allessandro was Domenico's father). -- bb ..!ihnp4!ut-sally!cyb-eng!esc-bb!brad