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What church music did Domenico Scarlatti compose while associated with St. Peterās Basilica?
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Domenico Scarlatti
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While associated with the Julian Chapel at St. Peterās Basilica from 1714 to 1719, Domenico Scarlatti composed church music, though little of it survives today. Of the works from this period that have been preserved, the 10-voice Stabat Mater is the only composition that provides a glimpse of the musical genius he would later fully realize in his keyboard sonatas.1