Three Sonatas for the Piano Forte With an Accompanyment Obligato for a Violin Dédiées à Mademoiselle Marie Victoire Imbert Colomés de Lyon ... Opera XV. Price 10.6. [Score]

London: Printed for the Author & to be had of him at No. 20, Goodge St. Tottenham Ct. Road, 1786. Oblong folio. Contemporary flexible marbled boards. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 2-36 pp. Engraved throughout.

Autograph signature of the composer ("M Clementi") to upper outer corner of title, with embossed stamp of Florentine bookseller Gonnelli.

Wrappers worn, with minor loss of marbled paper; small label with No. [20] to lower inner margin of upper and small handstamp to recto of rear wrapper. Slightly worn; minor foxing to title; very occasional small stains, mainly to blank lower margin; some leaves reinforced with narrow strip of paper to inner margin; Clementi's signature significantly faded and nearly illegible. First Edition. Tyson p. 53. BUC p. 199. RISM C2851 (no copies in the U.S.).

Clementi was an English composer, keyboard player and virtuoso, teacher, music publisher, entrepreneur, and piano manufacturer of Italian birth. ... "[His] influence on following generations of pianists and piano composers is hard to overestimate. Beethoven's earlier keyboard writing seems unmistakably indebted to his music of the 1780s and 1790s. Clementi was the principal teacher of several leading pianists of the 1820s and 1830s, and he had more informal contacts with many others during their formative years, for example Herz, Meyerbeer, Dussek, and perhaps Hummel. His didactic works, especially the Introduction to the Art of Playing on the Piano Forte, the op.36 sonatinas, and the Gradus ad Parnassum, became staples in the education of pianists at all levels. Thus in several ways he impressed his stamp on piano playing and writing from about 1790 until far into the 19th century. And increasing numbers of modern editions and recordings of his works made 20th-century musicians and audiences aware once more of his virtues as a composer." Leon Plantinga, revised by Luca Lévi Sala in Grove Music Online.