CLEMENTI, Muzio

Clementi belonged to a school of pianists and composers long since passed away. He was a follower of Mozart in his style of composition, but a reformer and developer of playing, marking the turning point from which the great modern school of Moscheles, Thalberg, Liszt, and Rubinstein took its departure. Of his personal capabilities, Moscheles says.—Clementi’s pianoforte playing, when he was young, was famed for the exquisite legato, pearliness of touch in rapid passages, and unerring certainty of...