Round 14: Tossup 2
Arthur Benjamin arranged four sonatas by a composer with this first name into a C major oboe concerto. One of Martha Argerich’s (“ARR-guh-rich’s”) favorite encores is a short piece in 3/8 time by a composer with this name that begins with sets of six repeated sixteenth notes on the pitches “D, F, E, D.” The comic opera Il Matrimonio Segreto is by a composer with this name and the last name Cimarosa (“chee-ma-RO-za”). A composer with this first name mostly wrote single-movement, binary form pieces for harpsichord, which were catalogued by Alessandro Longo and Ralph Kirkpatrick. After moving from Italy to Portugal, a composer with this first name wrote 30 Essercizi (“ess-air-CHEET-see”), the last of which is the “Cat Fugue.” For 10 points, give this name of a Neapolitan composer who wrote 555 keyboard sonatas, the son of Alessandro Scarlatti. ■END■