Domenico Scarlatti is documented as having taken lessons from Gaetano Greco during his early musical education in Naples. Greco, a prominent teacher at the Poveri di Gesù Cristo Conservatory and an established composer and pedagogue, was among the composers who may have instructed the young Scarlatti, influencing his early stylistic development.
Greco’s role as one of Scarlatti’s probable teachers places their interaction in the context of late 17th‑ and early 18th‑century Naples, where Greco was an active instructor of composition, counterpoint, keyboard performance, and vocal music. Scarlatti’s formative studies under Greco contributed to the foundations of his musicianship before he later continued studies under other Italian masters.
