Gaetano Brunetti wrote six oboe sextets for this country’s king near the end of his life. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this home country of Antonio Soler, who studied with Domenico Scarlatti and wrote hundreds of keyboard sonatas. Luigi Boccherini’s time in this country inspired a string quintet depicting its capital at night.
ANSWER: Spain [or España]
[10h] Scarlatti wrote his 555 keyboard sonatas while living in Madrid as this musician’s teacher. Scarlatti’s biographer argued that this musician’s obesity led Scarlatti to eliminate hand-crossing from his later works.
ANSWER: Barbara of Portugal [or Barbara de Braganza; or Maria Magdalena Barbara of Portugal; prompt on Barbara]
[10m] In an article on the so-called “Barbarian hypothesis,” this musicologist claimed it is easier to prove that Shakespeare wrote his plays than that Scarlatti wrote his sonatas. This Yale musicologist catalogued Scarlatti’s sonatas.
ANSWER: Ralph Kirkpatrick (The article is “Who Wrote the Scarlatti Sonatas? A Study in Reverse Scholarship.”)
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