*** likely the son of Tommaso Scarlatti, but no definitely proven ***

source:
Lazarevich, G. (2001). Scarlatti, Giuseppe. Grove Music Online. Retrieved 10 Nov. 2020, from https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/97815....

Scarlatti, Giuseppe Gordana Lazarevich https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.6002278255 Published in print: 20 January 2001Published online: 2001 Updated in this version updated and revised, 3 September 2014

Member of Scarlatti family

(b Naples, ?1718, or June 18, 1723; d Vienna, Aug 17, 1777). Composer. His date of birth and precise relationship to the other Scarlattis are uncertain. A Giuseppe was born in Naples in June 1723 to (1) Alessandro’s brother (5) Tommaso; another Giuseppe, born in 1718, was a nephew of (7) Domenico, according to Burney. Since one of Giuseppe Scarlatti’s earliest works, the oratorio La SS Vergine annunziata, was performed in Rome in 1739, 1718 would seem to be the more likely date. Although in the libretto of the oratorio he is called ‘Maestro di Cappella Napolitano’, there is no record of his holding such an appointment and the title is presumably honorific.

According to the locations of his opera premières, Scarlatti seems to have been active in a number of different cities. He composed for Rome (1739–41); for Florence, Pisa, Lucca, and Turin (1741–9); for Venice (1752–4); for Naples (1755); for Venice again (1756–9, and in 1756 for Milan); and for Vienna (1759–72, with performances at Turin in 1763 and at Verona in 1765). Since L’impostore, on which he probably collaborated with Gioacchino Cocchi, was performed at Barcelona in 1752, it is possible that the performance was connected with Domenico Scarlatti’s sojourn in Spain.

The first of Scarlatti’s two marriages was to Barbara Stabili, who sang buffa roles in Vienna and elsewhere; she apparently died in or about 1753. Between 1757 (or 1759) and his death Scarlatti himself seems to have been active in Vienna as composer, harpsichordist, and music teacher to members of Prince Schwarzenberg’s family. Up to 1772 a number of his stage works were performed at the Burgtheater, including a festa teatrale, Armida, to a libretto by Marco Coltellini, whose intermezzo Dove è amore è gelosia was also set to music by Scarlatti in 1768, and the opera Amiti e Ontario, to a libretto by Calzabigi. Up to 1764 Scarlatti enjoyed the protection of Count Durazzo and Gluck, both very influential figures at the Viennese court. By 1767 he had married Antonia Lefebvre, who that year bore him a son. She died three years later, and Scarlatti himself died intestate in 1777.

Scarlatti composed over 30 operas, 21 of which were of the seria type and 11 of the buffo type. He set at least nine librettos by Metastasio and several by Goldoni. It is doubtful whether he composed the music for a fifth Goldoni libretto, Il mercato di Malmantile, which is attributed to him in the libretto for a performance of the opera in Venice in Carnival 1758. Another libretto citing the same performance date, location, cast, and printer attributes the music to Domenico Fischietti.

Giuseppe Scarlatti carried on the lyrical melodic tradition established by Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti before him, creating in the process a charming but simple style in which the orchestra for the most part functioned as accompaniment to the vocal parts. Judging by the few repeat performances of some of his operas (such as I portentosi effetti della Madre Natura) very few achieved much success. He had a talent, however, for depicting slapstick elements in his comic operas, as evidenced in the mock Chinese scene in Act 2 of L’isola disabitata. Since so few of his opere serie survive, it is difficult to identify his achievements in that genre.

Works music lost unless otherwise stated

Operas dm dramma per musica

Open in new tab Merope (dm, 3, A. Zeno), Rome, Capranica, 23 Jan 1740, I-Nc (according to Eitner and Florimo); P-La (1755, Naples)

Dario (dm, 3, G. Baldanza), Rome, Argentina, carn. 1741

Arminio in Germania (dm, 3, C. Pasquini), Florence, Pergola, 24 June 1741

Siroe (dm, 3, P. Metastasio), Florence, Pergola, June 1742

Pompeo in Armenia (dm, 3, B. Vitturi), Pisa, Pubblico, carn. 1744

Ezio (dm, 3, Metastasio), Lucca, Civico, aut. 1744

Olimpiade (dm, 3, Metastasio), Lucca, Pubblico, aut. 1745

Il giocatore (commedia per musica, 2), Florence, Cocomero, carn. 1747

Artaserse (dm, 3, Metastasio), Lucca, 26 Aug 1747, A-Wn; B-Bc; in Ger., with dances by J. Starzer, Vienna, Burg, 15 Feb 1763

Partenope (dm, 3, S. Stampiglia), Turin, Regio, carn. 1749, I-Tf (1754, Livorno)

Semiramide riconosciuta (dm, 3, Metastasio), Livorno, S Sebastiano, carn. 1751

Adriano in Siria (dm, 3, Metastasio), Venice, S Cassiano, carn. 1752

Demetrio (dm, 3, Metastasio), Padua, Nuovo, 11 June 1752

I portentosi effetti della Madre Natura (dramma giocoso per musica, 3, C. Goldoni), Venice, S Samuele, 1 Nov 1752, A-Wgm

L’impostore (ob), Barcelona, S Cruz, 1752, collab. ? G. Cocchi

Alessandro nell’Indie (dm, 3, Metastasio), Reggio nell’Emilia, Pubblico, 12 May 1753, Wgm

De gustibus non est disputandum (dramma giocoso per musica, 3, Goldoni), Venice, S Cassiano, carn. 1754, B-Bc

Caio Mario (dm, 3, G. Roccaforte), Naples, S Carlo, 20 Jan 1755, P-La

Antigona (dm, 3, Roccaforte), Milan, Ducale, carn. 1756

L’isola disabitata (dramma giocoso per musica, 3, Goldoni), Venice, S Samuele, aut. 1757

Vienna, Burg, 1773, A-Wgm; D-Dl; as La Chinese smarrita, Genoa, Falcone, sum. 1760

La serva scaltra (dramma giocoso per musica, 3), Venice, S Moisè, aut. 1759

Vienna, Burg, 1759, A-Wn

La clemenza di Tito (dm, 3, Metastasio), Venice, S Benedetto, carn. 1760, D-Bsp; F-Pn; P-La

L’Issipile (dm, 3, Metastasio), Vienna, Burg, aut. 1760, D-B; I-Tn

Pelopida (dm, 3, Roccaforte), Turin, Regio, carn. 1763, I-Tci (Act 2); P-La

Bajazet (dm, 3, A. Piovene), Verona, Accademia Filarmonica, carn. 1765

Gli stravaganti (commedia per musica, 2, ‘Alcindo Isaurense’), Vienna, Burg, 11 Feb 1765, A-Wn; as La moglie padrona, Vienna, Burg, 1768

Armida (dm, 2, M. Coltellini), Vienna, Burg, c1766

Dove è amore è gelosia (intermezzo giocoso, Coltellini), Vienna, Burg, 1768, A-Wn

L’amor geloso (azione teatrale comica, 2), Vienna, Schönbrunn, 5 July 1770

Amiti e Ontario, o I selvaggi (dm, R. de’ Calzabigi), Vienna, Burg, 1772

Open in new tab Doubtful La madamigella (A. Palomba), Naples, Fiorentini, spr. 1755

Open in new tab Other works La SS Vergine annunziata (orat), Rome, 19 March 1739

Componimento per musica (serenata, 2), Rome, ?Palazzo Aquaviva, 1739, A-Wgm (according to Eitner)

L’amor della patria (serenata, C. Goldoni), Venice, Accademia dei Nobili, 11 June 1752

Les aventures de Serail (ballet), Vienna, 1762, Wgm (according to Eitner)

Cants.: Imeneo, sognando talora, T, bc, Wgm; I lamenti d’Orfeo, 2vv, orch, B-Bc; Amor prigioniero, S, S, insts, D-Dl: all cited by Eitner

Arias (? mainly from ops) in A-Wgm; D-B, Dl, ROu, W; GB-Cfm; I-Bc, Mc, Nc, cited by Eitner

Sonata, hpd, in J.U. Haffner, Raccolta musicale, v (Nuremberg, 1765), cited by Eitner

Open in new tab Bibliography BurneyH; EitnerQ; FlorimoN; SartoriL H. Springer: ‘Des Partiturautograph von Giuseppe Scarlattis bisher verschollener “Clemenza di Tito”’, Beiträge zum Bibliotheks- und Buchwesen: Paul Schenke … gewidmet (Berlin, 1913), 257–60 R. Haas: Gluck und Durazzo im Burgtheater (Zürich, 1925) P. Fienga: ‘Giuseppe Scarlatti et son incertaine ascendance directe’, ReM, nos.122–6 (1932), 113–19

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Giuseppe Scarlatti (1718 or 18 June 1723, Naples – 17 August 1777, Vienna) was a composer of opere serie and opere buffe.

He worked in Rome from 1739 to 1741, and from 1752 to 1754 in Florence, Pisa, Lucca and Turin. From 1752 to 1754, and again from 1756 to 1759, he worked in Venice and for short periods in Milan and Barcelona. In 1760 he moved to Vienna, where he enjoyed the friendship of Christoph Willibald Gluck.

"The third most important musician of his clan", it is still uncertain whether he was the nephew of Alessandro born 18 June 1723 or the nephew of Domenico born in 1718. Giuseppe Scarlatti was married to the Viennese singer Barbara Stabili who died about 1753. By 1767 he had married Antonia Lefebvre, who that year bore him a son; she died three years later. Scarlatti died intestate in 1777 in Vienna.

According to the composer Giuseppe Scarlatti's (1723-1777) own notes, he is a grandson of Alessandro Scarlatti, and Giuseppe's father is a brother of the composer Domenico Scarlatti. But according to a Swedish document, Giuseppe's sister the opera singer Rosa Scarlatti would be a niece of Alessandro. The Swedish notes are not written by Rosa herself. We should trust more Giuseppe's own notes rather than documents which reflect Rosa's story.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Scarlatti
• https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Scarlatti

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He was a composer.