Clementi: Piano Sonatas, Selection, Volume I (1768-1785) piano_product From “The Borrower Arrietty” (Simon

From “The Borrower Arrietty” (Simon Caby & Cecile Corbel)

The middle movement in G major

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— Jim McNeely

Clementi: Piano Sonatas, Selection, Volume I (1768-1785) piano_product From “The Borrower Arrietty” (SimonMuzio Clementi was born four years before Mozart and outlived Beethoven by five. Thus this Italian pianist and composer helped fashion the entire Classical era in music. However, his pedagogical tour de force, the Gradus ad parnassum, has tended to negatively influence the esteem he enjoyed as an artist, something that our first volume of Clementis piano sonatas should help to rectify. This selection of ten moderately difficult to difficult works