Credits:

Stefan Chaplikov

Description:

Clementi was born in Italy and was active in the same period as Mozart, and in 1780 he actually met Mozart and competed with him on the piano (Mozart is said to have approved of Clementi's technique, but criticized his musicality). ) Later, based in England, Clementi became a versatile performer, teacher, piano maker, and sheet music merchant, and he trained many pupils. Today Clementi is best known as a composer of exercises and simple sonatinas, but many of his piano sonatas are like concertos with orchestra, demanding a wide range of expression and technique, sometimes rivaling Beethoven's sonatas in perfection. Naxos Japan