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Sonata K. 455 (399/209) in G major is a piano work by Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti.

Description
Sonata K. 455 in G major is part of a couplet with the previous sonata. Joyful and extroverted, it is one of four sonatas based on the principle of repeating notes in the right hand, along with sonatas K. 141 (toccata), 366, and 421.

First 29 measures of K. 455, by Domenico Scarlatti.

The main manuscript is Venice XI/2 (1756), copied for Maria Barbara; the others are Parma XIII/2 and Münster II/48.

Performers
Sonata K. 455 has been performed on the piano by Vladimir Horowitz (1946, RCA ; 1962, Sony), Christian Zacharias (1979, EMI), Ievgueni Soudbine (2004, BIS), Yuja Wang (2011, DG), and Orion Weiss (2013, Naxos, vol. 15).

On the harpsichord, it has been recorded by Ralph Kirkpatrick (1971, Archiv), Colin Tilney (1979, L'Oiseau-Lyre/Decca), Scott Ross (1985, Erato), Andreas Staier (1991, DHM), and Christophe Rousset (1997, Decca).