Muzio Clementi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Muzio Clementi

Italian-born English composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer

Date of Birth: 24-Jan-1752

Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy

Date of Death: 10-Mar-1832

Profession: composer, conductor, pianist, musicologist, music pedagogue

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Muzio Clementi

  • Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi (23 January 1752 – 10 March 1832) was an Italian-born English composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Encouraged to study music by his father, he was sponsored as a young composer by Sir Peter Beckford who took him to England to advance his studies.
  • Later, he toured Europe numerous times from his long-standing base in London.
  • It was on one of these occasions, in 1781, that he engaged in a piano competition with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Influenced by Domenico Scarlatti's harpsichord school and Haydn's classical school and by the stile galante of Johann Christian Bach and Ignazio Cirri, Clementi developed a fluent and technical legato style, which he passed on to a generation of pianists, including John Field, Johann Baptist Cramer, Ignaz Moscheles, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Carl Czerny.
  • He was a notable influence on Ludwig van Beethoven and Frédéric Chopin. Clementi also produced and promoted his own brand of pianos and was a notable music publisher.
  • Because of this activity, many compositions by Clementi's contemporaries and earlier artists have stayed in the repertoire.
  • Though the reputation of Clementi was exceeded only by Haydn and Beethoven in his day, his popularity languished for much of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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