Muzio Clementi - Kensington Church Street, London, UK
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Master Mariner
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This London County Council (LCC) blue plaque indicates that the composer, Muzio Clementi, "lived here". The plaque is attached to a building on the east side of Kensington Church Street in London.
Waymark Code: WMTQ4R
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/28/2016
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Touchstone
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The full wording on the London County Council blue plaque is:

London County Council

Muzio
Clementi
1752 - 1832
Composer
lived here

Wikipedia has an article about Muzio Clementi that advises:

Muzio Clementi (23 January 1752 – 10 March 1832) was an Italian born British composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer.

Encouraged to study music by his father, he was sponsored as a young composer by Sir Peter Beckford who took him to England to advance his studies. Later, he toured Europe numerous times from his long-standing base in London. It was on one of these occasions, in 1781, that he engaged in a piano competition with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Influenced by Domenico Scarlatti's harpsichord school and Haydn's classical school and by the stile galante of Johann Christian Bach and Ignazio Cirri, Clementi developed a fluent and technical legato style, which he passed on to a generation of pianists, including John Field, Johann Baptist Cramer, Ignaz Moscheles, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Carl Czerny. He was a notable influence on Ludwig van Beethoven.

Clementi also produced and promoted his own brand of pianos and was a notable music publisher. Because of this activity, many compositions by Clementi's contemporaries and earlier artists have stayed in the repertoire. Though the European reputation of Muzio Clementi was second only to Joseph Haydn in his day, his reputation languished for much of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Blue Plaque managing agency: London County Council (LCC)

Individual Recognized: Muzio Clementi

Physical Address:
128 Kensington Church Street
London, United Kingdom


Web Address: [Web Link]

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