Three Sonatas for the Piano Forte ... Dedicated to Miss Theresa Jansen. Op. 33. Price 7s/6d. NB. The First Sonata is composed for Instruments with or without additional Keys
- London: Longman & Broderip No. 26 Cheapside & No. 13 Haymarket, 1795
London: Longman & Broderip No. 26 Cheapside & No. 13 Haymarket, 1795. Folio. Disbound. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (blank), 18, [i] (blank), 20-33, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved throughout.
The third sonata in the set is a solo arrangement of a piano concerto; the cadenza in its first movement (partly unmeasured) is rendered in smaller notation; smaller notation is also employed in the score for alternate passages where the player's piano does not extend far enough into the extreme high register (i.e., the "additional Keys" referenced in the title).
Minor soiling, foxing, and small stains to first and final leaves; final leaf detached. First Edition, later issue. Tyson p. 72. BUC p. 199. RISM C2994 and CC2994 (two copies in the U.S., at Yale and the University of Iowa).
Clementi was an Italian-born English composer, keyboard player, teacher, music publisher, entrepreneur, and piano manufacturer. "[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.
The third sonata in the set is a solo arrangement of a piano concerto; the cadenza in its first movement (partly unmeasured) is rendered in smaller notation; smaller notation is also employed in the score for alternate passages where the player's piano does not extend far enough into the extreme high register (i.e., the "additional Keys" referenced in the title).
Minor soiling, foxing, and small stains to first and final leaves; final leaf detached. First Edition, later issue. Tyson p. 72. BUC p. 199. RISM C2994 and CC2994 (two copies in the U.S., at Yale and the University of Iowa).
Clementi was an Italian-born English composer, keyboard player, teacher, music publisher, entrepreneur, and piano manufacturer. "[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.
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Title
Three Sonatas for the Piano Forte ... Dedicated to Miss Theresa Jansen. Op. 33. Price 7s/6d. NB. The First Sonata is composed for Instruments with or without additional Keys
Author
CLEMENTI, Muzio 1752-1832
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Longman & Broderip No. 26 Cheapside & No. 13 Haymarket: London
Date
1795