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(Moodz’-yo Kla-man’-te) 1752–1832 Italian pianist and composer Born in Rome, at the age of around 15 Clementi went to England and spent seven years in Dorset becoming an accomplished keyboard player. Most of his career was spent in London, where he was involved in piano manufacture and publishing, playing and composing. He undertook extended concert tours on the continent ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

symphonic movements, selections from operas, sets of waltzes and other music. One of these had a formative influence on the child Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93). In 1825, Clementi in London produced a machine that marked a new chapter in the story of the piano, though its full import was not perceived at the time. ‘This curious instrument ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

the first half of the nineteenth century, the great virtuosos were almost always important composers – think only of Bach, Handel, Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757), Mozart, Muzio Clementi (1752–1832), Beethoven, Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837), Chopin and Liszt. Of the great composer-pianists before 1850, only Mozart, Hummel and Chopin were content to work with what they had. ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

The name ‘player piano’ is a misnomer, indeed the precise opposite of the truth. In fact, this is a playerless piano – a piano that plays itself. Origins of the Player Piano Though almost exclusively associated with the early-twentieth century, the idea of a self-playing piano had been around for centuries. Henry VIII’s self-playing virginals and Clementi’s studded-cylinder ...

Source: The Illustrated Complete Musical Instruments Handbook, general editor Lucien Jenkins

1816–75 English composer Bennett was a leading figure of the ‘London Piano School’, a significant group of pianist-composers that included Muzio Clementi (1752–1832), Ignaz Moscheles (1794–1870) and Johann Baptist Cramer (1771–1858). A boy chorister at King’s College, Cambridge, he began studies aged 10 at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM), where his teachers included Cipriani Potter. Close friends included ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

, vivacity and melodic warmth. Recommended Recording: Il matrimonio segreto, soloists, English Chamber Orchestra (cond) Daniel Barenboim (Deutsche Grammophon) Introduction | Classical Era | Classical Personalities | Muzio Clementi | Classical Era | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

There had already been sets of studies prompted by the rise of the piano as a virtuoso solo instrument, notably the Gradus ad Parnassum (‘Steps to Parnassus’) of Muzio Clementi (1752–1832), the studies of Johann Baptist Cramer (1771–1858) and the exercises of Czerny, but Chopin’s were a new departure in their combination of musical and poetic interest with technical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

1793, where he studied with Clementi. His reputation as a pianist spread and he was soon in great demand. In 1802 he went on a prolonged European tour with Clementi, ending up in St Petersburg. When Clementi left the following year, Field stayed on and was soon a celebrity among fashionable society, living in Russia for most ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

and counterpoints to hack post-horses.’ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Leading Exponents C.P.E. Bach J.C. Bach Christoph Willibald von Gluck Joseph Haydn Antonio Salieri Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Muzio Clementi Jan Ladislav Dussek Ludwig van Beethoven Johann Nepomuk Hummel Classical Style Classical compositions are charcterized by a prominent melody and harmonic accompaniment, and would often have been played out ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

sonatas, a traditional way of raising one’s profile as a composer. He made occasional appearances at court, notably in a piano contest with the visiting Italian virtuoso Muzio Clementi (1752–1832). And he obtained a commission to compose for the opera: it was to be a German piece, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (‘The Abduction from the Seraglio’). It ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

clarity rather than technical display, and his later piano sonatas, although they show harmonic ingenuity and melodic richness, are spare, elegant and lyrical. In contrast, Clementi introduced a more abrasive melodic style and laid the foundations of the piano style of the next generation. He exploited the new pianoforte, with its capacity for brilliant, ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

of the virtuoso performer, particularly the composer-performer who wrote very difficult works to demonstrate his own flamboyant skills. Virtuoso performers were nothing new, of course – Mozart and Clementi were both dazzling pianists who wrote works for their own use, and J. S. Bach’s powers as a performer are evident from his organ works – but during the ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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