Florence Wilshire: Florence Wilshire: Muzio Clementi and his Era 20th century

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Florence Wilshire: Florence Wilshire: Muzio Clementi and his Era 20th century

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.misc.0174

Florence Wilshire's unpublished biography of Muzio Clementi, with related materials

3 boxes (2 linear feet)

eng,

Irving S. Gilmore Music Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6352709

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Clementi, Muzio, 1752-1832

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English composer, keyboard player and teacher, music publisher, and piano manufacturer of Italian birth. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : London, 15 June 1818, to Mme Lehmann (née Bilguer) in Berlin, 1818 June 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564496 From the description of Autograph note signed, dated : Birmingham, 17 August 1829, 1829 Aug. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564500 Sonata first published 1795. This arrangement 1951.-...

Florence Wilshire

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Muzio Clementi was one of the most talented, influential, and versatile musicians of his era. Born in Rome on June 23, 1752, Clementi began his musical career as a church organist there when he was only thirteen, but he spent most of his adolescence in the service of Peter Beckford, an Englishman who heard him play in Rome. In 1774 Clementi left Beckford's country house and settled in London, where he quickly established himself as a leading harpsichordist, pianist, and composer. He...