Muzio Clementi: 7 Sonatas For Fortepiano And Flute - Andrea Coen, Laura Pontecorvo / Dynamic Audio CD 1999 / CDS 224 UPC 8007144602246 Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi (23 January 1752 – 10 March 1832) was an Italian-British composer, virtuoso pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer, who was mostly active in England. 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, Mozart, Beethoven, and Rossini in his day, his popularity languished for much of the 19th and 20th centuries. Label: Dynamic – CDS 224 Format: CD, Stereo Country: Italy Released: 1998 Genre: Classical Tracklist: Sonata Op. 2 No. 3 In G Major 1 Moderato 4:47 2 Allegretto 3:45 Sonata Op. 2 No. 5 In F Major 3 Allegro 6:14 4 Allegretto 2:59 Sonata Op. 3 No. 1 In F Major 5 Allegro 4:43 6 Presto 2:02 Sonata Op. 3 No. 3 In C Major 7 Allegro Spiritoso 5:13 8 Allegro 2:46 Sonata Op. 4 No. 1 In D Major 9 Allegro Assai 4:56 10 Minuetto 4:25 Sonata Op. 4 No. 4 In G Major 11 Allegro 4:52 12 Tempo di Minuetto, Andantino 5:05 Sonata Op. 13 No. 1 In G Major 13 Allegro Con Molta Vivacita 6:18 14 Larghetto Affettuoso 3:54 15 Allegro Spiritoso 3:40 Composed By – Muzio Clementi Flute – Laura Pontecorvo Piano – Andrea Coen
