Aldo Clementi News
Italian composer
Commemorations 2025 (Birth: Aldo Clementi)
- piano
- classical music
- Italy, Kingdom of Italy
- composer, university teacher
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2024-03-29
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2024-01-22 15:45:25
Mozart, 2024
[…] virtuoso clarinetist and a close friend of Mozart’s (they had known each other since 1781) for whom he also wrote his Clarinet Quintet. Stadler invented the so-called basset clarinet, a version of the instrument that allows the performer to reach lower notes, and that was the instrument for which Mozart wrote the concerto. We’ll hear it performed by a talented German clarinetist Sabine Meyer with the Staatskapelle Dresden under the direction of Hans Vonk. Muzio Clementi, who competed as a keyboard player and composer with Mozart at the court of Emperor Josef II, was born on January 23rd of 1752. He, Henri Dutilleux, Witold Lutoslawski, the pianists Josef Hofmann, John Ogdon and Arthur Rubinstein, the cellist Jacqueline du Pré and Wilhelm Furtwängler, a great conductor, all of whom were born this week, will have to wait for another time.
2024-01-11 05:00:00
Clementi: Piano Sonatas (Maria Rose)
Muzzio Clementi (1752-1832) Sonata in B-flat major, Op. 24 No. 2Sonata in F minor, Op.13 No. 6Sonata in A major, Op. 25 No. 4Sonata in B minor, Op. 40 No. 2Maria Rose, Fortepiano(Period Instruments)Newport Classic NPD 85571 (1994)[Flac & Scans]
2023-11-13 14:54:56
Transitioning, 2023
[…] by none other than Mozart, who also housed him for two years, all free of charge. Even though Mozart was 22 years older than the boy, they played billiards and spent time together. At the age of nine Hummel performed one of Mozart’s piano concertos. Very much like Leopold Mozart, Hummel’s father took his child on a European tour. They ended up in London and stayed there for four years, Hummel taking lessons from Muzio Clementi. In 1791, Haydn, who knew the young Hummel from his visits to Mozart’s house in Vienna, was also staying in London; he dedicated a piano sonata to the boy, who performed it in public to great success. The French Revolution, the Terror and the subsequent wars changed the Hummels’s plans, and in 1793 they returned to Vienna. There Hummel continued taking music lessons, with Antonio Salieri and Joseph Haydn. One of Haydn’s pupils was […]
2023-09-18 12:00:00
Geoff Pearce is impressed by Carlo Alberto Bacchi's recording of sonatas by Muzio Clementi. '... pianist Carlo Alberto Bacchi performs with assurance, grace and mastery.'
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