Progetto Martha Argerich

italiano

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Muzio Clementi

Sonata in B-flat Major for two pianos, Op. 1, No. 6

 

Born in Rome in 1752, Muzio Clementi moved to England when he was still a child, thanks to Sir Peter Beckford, who, after having heard him play the harpsichord, undertook to educate him at his own expense. Clementi was above all else an incomparable keyboard virtuoso, capable of exploring all of his instrument’s technical and expressive resources as no one before him had done most of his music was written for his own use as a performer and eventually as a music publisher, in the vanguard of the increasingly profitable market for piano music. The Sonata in B-flat Major for two pianos, Op. 1, No. 6, was published in Paris in 1780-81 as the final number in a collection of solo piano compositions. It consists of two movements, gives equal importance to each of the two instruments and demonstrates very “modern” musical notions, with a highly original minuet (Allegretto) that has nothing to do with the conventional banality of other minuets of the day.

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1. Allegro di molto
2. Allegretto – Tempo di minuetto

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