Muzio Clementi (1752 - 1832)

Piano Music
Sonata in G Major, Op. 25 No.2
Sonata in F Sharp Minor, Op. 25 No.5
Sonatina in D Major, Op. 37 No.2

Six Progressive Sonatinas, Op. 36
Sonatina in D Major, Op. 36 No.6
Sonatina in G Major, Op. 36 No.5
Sonatina in G Major, Op. 36 No.2
Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36 No.1
Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36 No.3
Sonatina in F Major, Op. 36 No.4

Sonata in B Flat Major, Op. 24 No.2

Muzio Clernenti was born in Rome in 1752, the son of a silver smith. By the age of thirteen he had become proficient enough as a musician to be employed as organist at the Church of S. Lorenzo in Damaso and to attract the attention of an English visitor, Peter Beckford, a cousin of William Beckford, author of Vathek and builder of the remarkable Gothic folly of Fonthill. Peter Beckford, as he himself claimed, bought Clementi from his father for a period of seven y