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Although Domenico Scarlatti never wrote music for guitar, many of his more than 500 sonatas for harpsichord, above 260, have been transcribed for guitar in the last century.
Scarlatti has become part of the "natural" repertoire for classical guitarists. The list of the guitar masters that have transcribed (and recorded) sonatas from Scarlatti has no end: Andres Segovia, Julian Bream, Narciso Yepes, Jose de Azpiazu, John Williams, David Russell, Manuel Barrueco, Eliot Fisk, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, John W. Duarte, Leo Brouwer, Stephan Schmidt, Fabio Zanon, Andrew Zohn, Claudio Giuliani, Roberto Aussel, Wolfgang Lendle, Alberto Mesirca, Thibault Caubin, Eduardo Fernandez, Luigi Attademo, Stephan Marchionda, Gerard Abiton and so on...
Sonata K49 is a brilliant and difficult piece. It is marked as presto, but I recommend not to play it "as fast as you can", so you can enjoy the beautiful melodic lines and the harmonic resonances. It has, too, some virtuosistic passages that will keep your fingers busy. Not recommended for begginers.
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