In the light of his later music, it is by no means difficult to imagine Domenico Scarlatti strolling under the Moorish arcades of the Alcazar or listening at night in the streets of Seville to the intoxicating rhythms of castanets and the half oriental melodies of Andalusian chant. Domenico Scarlatti was born in Naples and received his musical education from his father, Alessandro. He ended up working at the Spanish court, as a kind of satellite of Italian origins abandoned on the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the 17th century … The impressions of Spanish folklore must have overwhelmed him there.