Welcome to the official site of the 1st Global Scarlatti Marathon, SCARLATHON.
The First Global Scarlatti Marathon was organised by FIMTE on Friday December 1st 2006 to celebrate Scarlatti’s musical legacy and share it with as broad a public as possible.
220 performers aged from 12 to 71 from 14 institutions, 11 cities and 7 countries played 556 Scarlatti sonatas in a single day on an array of different keyboards: harpsichords, clavichords, pianofortes, organs and modern pianos, as well as chamber ensembles and dancing.
On this website and during 2007 you will find the recordings of the event (“live” audio and video) sent by each regional coordinator, including about 92% of the 556 sonatas played, together with the programme, venues, press releases, pictures and information about the participants. Performers included well known keyboard players as well as prestigious musicologists and students of various levels.
Scarlatti without borders. This constitutes a document on how Scarlatti Sonatas are played today worldwide in the academic world with different perspectives and performance traditions.
Scarlatti is very much alive, as we can affirm after the Scarlathon event; alive in Europe and above all, alive in the New World, where about 63% of the Scarlathon was played. The high participation of young students guarantees not only the Scarlatti musical legacy but the vitality of the Spanish and European eighteenth century musical heritage for the next 100 years. Most particularly, the Scarlatti sonatas constitute a rich source of information and a firm link to the origins of Spanish folklore.
As scholars we continue to search through the Scarlatti canon by means of research on period instruments, documents, etc. But how much of this research reaches the performers at universities and music schools? Does the Scarlatti canon exist or did it ever exist? These and other questions naturally arise after the Scarlathon event.

Listen, think and enjoy!

Audite, Videte et Gaudete

Luisa Morales