Scarlatti in Sweden

Domenico Scarlatti lived and worked in Portugal and Spain for some 38 years until his death in 1757, yet none of his keyboard sonatas was printed in Spain until Granados’s 26 piano transcriptions were published in Barcelona in or about 1906. By a neat coincidence, that year saw the launch of Longo’s complete edition in Italy. Until then, Scarlatti’s international reputation had rested on a series of publishing initiatives elsewhere in Europe. This short article summarises the main outlines of that process before focusing on a country that has not hitherto featured in
Scarlatti’s reception history: Sweden.