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What did Thomas Roseingrave say about Domenico Scarlattiās harpsichord playing?
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Domenico Scarlatti
Domenico Scarlatti, engraving.
Thomas Roseingrave, who likely met Domenico Scarlatti in Venice, later described Scarlattiās harpsichord playing to the English musicologist Charles Burney. Roseingrave remarked that it sounded as if "ten hundred dās had been at the instrument," adding that he had never previously heard such passages of execution and effect.1