Oooooh, wow, I had no idea about Farinelli! (I mean, I'd heard of him, but I didn't know about Philip V or Barbara of Portugal.)
in 1728 she had appointed Domenico Scarlatti as her harpsichord teacher; the musicologist Ralph Kirkpatrick acknowledges Farinelli's correspondence as providing "most of the direct information about Scarlatti that has transmitted itself to our day")
That is really kind of amazing. I wonder if Farinelli writes good letters
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Date: 2021-02-26 05:41 am (UTC)in 1728 she had appointed Domenico Scarlatti as her harpsichord teacher; the musicologist Ralph Kirkpatrick acknowledges Farinelli's correspondence as providing "most of the direct information about Scarlatti that has transmitted itself to our day")
That is really kind of amazing.
I wonder if Farinelli writes good letters