Muzio+Clementi

Muzio Clementi (Full name Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio) Clementiwas an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, music publisher, editor and piano manufacturer who was born on 24th January 1752 to 10th March 1832. He is best known for his piano sonatinas and sonatas, and his piano collection for music studies, called Gradus ad Parnassum.

THE MUSICIAN WHO INSPIRED BEETHOVEN...

Muzio Clementi was born in Rome, Italy on January 24th 1753. He is the eldest among his 6 siblings of Nicolo Clementi (1720-1789) and Madalena Kaiser whose from Swizerland. As he grew up, his musical talent was soon noticed by his father, he had arranged private music lessons especially for him by the time he was seven. Only after two short years, he was offered for a position as a church organist at Chiesa Di St Lorenzo in Famaso. At that time he had begun a formal musical studies with one of his relatives and organist Cordicelli. He had also learnt voice with Guiseppe Santarelli. Only a few years later, when he was just 13, he had already composed an Oratorio, Martiotio de' gloriosi Santi Giuliane.
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Through his later years he had spent his life in England composing music and playing for the Emperor Sonata in B flat, Op.24 No.2 while Mozart played the Magic Flute.Soon they hated each other and it was then when Mozart wrote a letter to his sister not to play Clementi's piano pieces. As Clementi grew old, he moved outside of Lichfield, Staffordshire in 1830 and spent his final years, in Evesham, Worcestershire. On 10th March 1832, after a short illness, he died at the age of eighty years old. He was then buried at Wesminster Abby with one of his 3 famous students. He had been married three times and is said to have four children.

**MUSIC** Clemeti is well-known around the world for his Classical Sonatas. As a composer of classical piano sonatas, he had established the modern music teachnique and influenced an entire generation of pianists.

Encouraged to study music by his father and also influenced by Haydn and Domenico Sczarlatti, he was recommended by a wealthy man called Sir Peter Beckfield, who had brought Clementi to England for him to advance his music studies, He soon became one of the most talents piano virtuosi, touring all over Europe numerous times to show his talents for the world;and because of this he was then working in a famous piano dule with Wolfgang Mozart. He had then created a fluent legato style for the piano to pass on to a large number of pianists, including John Field, Carl Czenry and the most notable one, Ludwig Van Beethoven.

Clementi also produced and promoted his own brand of piano and the buisness became really successful. He was also a very outstanding music publisher. Other than Classical Sonatans, he is best known for his collection of piano studies, Gradus Ad Parmassum.

Clementi wrote almost 110 piano sonatas, but some of them are noted to be sonatinas right after he wrote Sonatina Op.36, and this sonatina had continued to be very famous even now in piano education.

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Why is Muzio Clementi considered as a Groundbreaker? Muzio Clementi is considered as a Groundbreaker because his piano pieces is now played by numerous of pianists and inspired alot of composers that came after him. He and his talent is a role model for all students that majors in music studies.

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