Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) 14-18 October

[doversoul1]

Muzio Clementi was one of the 18th and 19th century’s most revered musicians – a star performer, a composer admired by Czerny, Beethoven and Chopin and an astute musical businessman. However, he also had his detractors in his own time and history hasn’t been as kind to him as to the greater names of his time – Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven […]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009c22

I vaguely remember another Clementi Composer of the Week in which the composer’s descendant was the guest who talked about Clementi’s piano making business. Very much looking forward to this.

[MickyD]

I've just got hold of the Richard Burnett (of Finchcocks fame) book, "Company of Pianos". It's a wonderful survey of the evolution of piano makers and their instruments, wittily written and beautifully illustrated, along with a CD of some 30 tracks recorded on the instruments that were once at Finchcocks. It can still be had on Amazon, I highly recommend it.

[LMcD]

There's been much discussion of late of the qualities, or lack of them, of Radio 3 presenters. Fortunately, CoTW has one of the best. Like doversoul1, I'm really looking forward to this.

[ardcarp]

I have memories of playing some rather hum-drum Clementi pieces as a (very) young pianist. I'm sure he's capable of higher things, and I too look forward to the programme. I dimly remember also that the young Clementi was 'discovered' by an English gent and brought to England. Just imagine exchanging the Italian climate for ours......

Agree wholeheartedly about Donald's presentation of CotW. Long may it not be interfered with.

[Bryn]

Muzio Clementi was one of the 18th and 19th century’s most revered musicians – a star performer, a composer admired by Czerny, Beethoven and Chopin and an astute musical businessman. However, he also had his detractors in his own time and history hasn’t been as kind to him as to the greater names of his time – Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven […]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009c22

I vaguely remember another Clementi Composer of the Week in which the composer’s descendant was the guest who talked about Clementi’s piano making business. Very much looking forward to this.

Welcome as this week's programmes look to be, I do hope they someday get round to considering Aldo of that ilk*

*Nearly referenced Dave Gorman there.

[kernelbogey]

There's been much discussion of late of the qualities, or lack of them, of Radio 3 presenters. Fortunately, CoTW has one of the best. Like doversoul1, I'm really looking forward to this.

[Serial_Apologist]

Welcome as this week's programmes look to be, I do hope they someday get round to considering Aldo of that ilk*

*Nearly referenced Dave Gorman there.

I have a feeling that Aldo Clementi had his own COTW a few years (decades maybe) ago.

[LMcD]

I have a feeling that Aldo Clementi had his own COTW a few years (decades maybe) ago.

The BBC Genome reveals that Sarah Walker and Christopher Fox hosted a 'Portrait of Aldo Clementi' at 10.45 p.m. on 15/3/2003, but does not mention him as CoTW.

[Serial_Apologist]

The BBC Genome reveals that Sarah Walker and Christopher Fox hosted a 'Portrait of Aldo Clementi' at 10.45 p.m. on 15/3/2003, but does not mention him as CoTW.

Ah... thank you LMcD.

[Nick Armstrong]

There's been much discussion of late of the qualities, or lack of them, of Radio 3 presenters. Fortunately, CoTW has one of the best. Like doversoul1, I'm really looking forward to this.

Ditto. Going out of my way to catch these on the radio app. I also remember some slightly dull pieces from learning the piano, but always felt there was more to him. A blue plaque often reminds me (as I cycle or drive by) that had I been living where I do 200 years ago, he would almost have been a neighbour (mind you, he probably wouldn’t have wanted to know me, as I’d have been living in a tent or a bush 200 years ago since where I am had no buildings till the 1850s)

[vinteuil]

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... lots of blue plaques within a biscuit's toss -

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/muzio-clementi/

- including Sibelius in Glo'ster Walk.


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[Nick Armstrong]

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... lots of blue plaques within a biscuit's toss -

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/muzio-clementi/

- including Sibelius in Glo'ster Walk.

Many thanks, vin mousseux I had no idea Sibelius had resided nearby!

Nor that within the past hour, I cycled past the front door of Thackeray’s old gaff (indeed, where he died) - a discreet and closely guarded plaque, that one, seeing as it’s currently the Israeli Embassy...

My closest musical ‘neighbour’ is William Sterndale Bennett.