#Muzio Clementi

[into-ition]

Slow piano morns stay undefeated

from Sonatina Op. 36, No. 4 by my boy muzio clementi

[lesser-known-composers]

Muzio Clementi (1752–1832) - Sonate en fa dièse mineur op. 25 n° 5 -

I. Più tosto allegro con espressione - II. Lento e patetico - III. Presto

par Leonardo Pierdomenico

[miksweety]

For the Birds - original dark-folk fable

What is this

This waking curse

I called to the spirits

I called for the nurse

What is this

This unheard verse

If I can’t hold onto a melody

Shall I leave it for the birds

[oconnormusicstudio]

Today is World Pianist Day!

World Pianist Day, celebrated on November 8, is a symphony of joy for pianists and music lovers alike. It’s a day dedicated to tickling the ivories, embracing the melodies, and having a grand ol’ time celebrating the magic of the piano and the talented souls who make it sing. In the world of piano, we’re transported on a musical journey, where the notes and chords create a tapestry of emotions…

[sunset-supergirl]

Happy birthday Muzio Clementi

[allthingsgeorgian]

Guest post - Muzio Clementi: composer, performer and piano manufacturer, by R.M.Healey

As always, it’s a pleasure to welcome back R.M. Healey, who is becoming a regular guest on All Things Georgian and as you can see from the title, he is going to tell us more about Muzio Clementi. Muzio Clementi by Thomas Hardy (1757–1804) Wikipedia In the Georgian Age, as in any other era, invoices bearing letterheads can be dull or interesting, depending on who is being invoiced or who is…

[pianistbynight]

waning summer days

i cheated and recorded in sections, then spliced them together because i can't get a single clean take. if it's not me making a mistake, it's noise surrounding me. this way, the pressure was lessened and i think i did better (far from "perfect" tho) and it was less frustrating.

thursday | 08/15/24

no piano today. i'm tired. but i did read more of sweet bean paste and continued to work on the databases course. today was a bit chaotic, so i couldn't get 2h of studying in, but if i sleep early, i can maybe hopefully wake up earlier to work on it.

friday | 08/16/24

tried to play piano but then stopped because i got tired sooner than i expected. (also tried out a voice recorder app to record the piano audio instead of my phone camera but didn't like it...too much treble.) i finished 1 subsection of the databases course. caught up with @zzzzzestforlife. listened to some lofi and watched some youtube.

i'm trying to get myself in the mood to prep for the upcoming school year 😮‍💨 i...find myself dreading more and more each coming school year for some reason. ... it's not the work i fear. i know i can do it well but it takes so much of me. and i wonder what i'm doing this for. because i don't have all the stepping stones laid out yet. 😮‍💨 i need to work on that, so i'm going to sleep now so i can have more energy to continue doing this tomorrow. good night.

saturday | 08/17/24

i had a much more ambitious plan originally, but the only solo activity i actually had time and energy for was journaling because coming back to my hometown reminded me of and clarified some memories and opinions i had formed long ago, how they've shaped who i am now... the rest of the time i spent with family with real conversation for the first time in a while, so that was nice.

sunday | 08/18/24

sigh. i have never felt like i belonged in my former hometown and the loneliness is striking much stronger now. i was so tired i couldn't do much today except start filling in the YearCompass because who said the new year had to begin in january lol. i'm glad today was a chill day spent at my temporary home.

i will try to sleep early tonight. hopefully i won't wake up in between and be unable to fall back asleep again.

monday | 08/19/24

today was my first day of passable sleep quality in the last couple days. i woke up later than i expected. yet i still didn't feel like doing anything. i forced myself to do some duolingo for cheap dopamine, and later in the afternoon, i attempted to get through 1 more subsection of the databases course but couldn't focus. instead, i researched how to apply to take courses at another university in my area since there are some interesting courses there that aren't available at the one i attend. at night, i practiced the last bit of the clementi sonata and tried to record the whole thing but couldn't get a good one. i'm too tensed and distracted. i need to practice playing while relaxed, focusing only on what's relevant in the moment.

review U1 japanese, start hiragana practice ✅

work on databases course 🟨

practice piano ✅

tuesday | 08/20/24

fill in the YearCompass bc i'm too tired to journal unprompted and i want to be filled with hope for this school year instead of constantly drained and increasingly discouraged, disappointed, and depressed (why do so many negative things start with "d"? even the saddest songs are in d minor...)

practice playing clementi sonata while relaxed throughout and focused only on what's currently relevant

DATABASES COURSEEE - finish 4/13 subsections ✅ (ended up finishing 2 and starting a 3rd...this is harder than i thought it'd be but it'll be good for me to keep going...)

wednesday | 08/21/24

i don't even remember what happened. probably because i wasn't very productive. i was unusually angry and moody. i tried to record a single clean take and kept failing. i merely inched forward in the databases course. it was a day full of frustrating but necessary interruptions. it was tiring. i can't wait to go home.

thursday | 08/22/24

recorded the clementi sonata in sections...with more time and energy, i probably could've done better. almost 50% through the databases course. feeling a little better today than yesterday but always easily tired. this might be my last summer-themed post for the year as i'm already in an "autumnal mood." 🍂😅 i'll see you later either here or on my sideblog @studentbyday 🙂

[dearlymrme]

What type of music do you think each Papa would listen to?

Thank you for the ask. And for something to dig my teeth into.

Primo

Good old rock and roll. The classic 60s and 70s such as The Eagles, Queen, The Beetles, and good ol' ACDC. I can see him nodding along to some good rock while gardening and mouthing along to some songs. This is music he listened to in his hay days. He's most definitely the Papa that would strip off his paint and go to a concert without anyone knowing. Certainly the kinda guy that would take mushrooms before hand and watch and listen to The Stones while his face is melting off.

Secondo

Jazz and some swing. Swing is nice and upbeat and good to work out to, and classic low jazz is playing when in his room or office. A kind sister introduced him to Lo-Fi after hearing his complaints about difficulty sleeping, and since discovering it now, he uses it on hard nights to help him fall asleep. Smooth jazz is something I can really see him leaning back in his chair, sipping a drink and bobbing his foot to. Bob Crosby, The Inkspots, and The Pied Pipers. He has a tolerance for club music, but it's not his favorite.

Terzo

Terzo is a mix of everything to try and stay young and 'hip'. Early 2000s. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gnarls Barkley, Bloodhound Gang, a little bit of Eminem. Music that any millennium would have heard growing up, and that's because, well, he was meant to appeal to the younger demographic. He doesn't like it. His guilty pleasure is orchestral. That's right, he's the Papa that likes Beethoven and Mozart. However, he is more of a fan of those that slid under the sidelines like Erik Satie and Muzio Clementi. He likes to put them on for any reason but listens to a lot more of the upbeat when he cooks. Rest assured, though his favorite of the lot is Debussy.

Copia

Disco. This man has a bright blue sequin disco jacket. ABBA, Red Bone, Michael Jackson. He will pop that hip, grab his crotch and dance the night away to these hit artists. He will sing their songs in the hallway and doesn't give a damn who hears and judges him. Catch him humming Dancing Queen every moment of the day. And Copia, knows how to dance, to Disco anyway, and everything else he has two left feet. However, he also says 'y'all' a lot when referencing his fans, so I think spending so much time in the states might have distilled a small like of country in him. I can only hope it's less 'I love my gun, my truck, and my dog', county and more of 'my husband's cheating on me and I'm going to beat him to death with this tire iron after I cut his break lines', country.

Regardless

They are a metal band, of course they like metal. They appreciate old metal, they like new metal. Heavy metal, soft metal, Baby Metal. They are very supportive of new and up and coming artists as well as fans of the oldies. As Copia has gone to show us with Def Leppard, they would jump at the opportunity to collaborate with another metal band because it's fun! They enjoy what they do and wanna share that with anyone who shares the enthusiasm. So yes, while I headcanon that the Papa's have a diverse taste in music I also extremely headcanon that they love listening to their friends.

[none-ofthisnonsense]

If Muzio Clementi weren't already dead I'd kill him myself

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Historically important composer, pianist, and pedagogue Carl Czerny (1791 - 1857) dies in Vienna. Although he is best known today as the bane of piano students, Czerny was one of the most important musicians of the 19th Century -- in fact, he is arguably the "father" of modern pianism! Czerny studied piano with Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) (who held him in very high regard) and he also knew and was influenced by both Muzio Clementi (1752 - 1832) and Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778 - 1837). After opening up his own piano studio in Vienna at the age of 15, Czerny spent several decades teaching a long string of illustrious pupils including Sigismond Thalberg (1812 - 1871), Stephen Heller (1813 - 1888), Theodore Kullak (1818 - 1882), Theodore Leschetizky (1830 - 1915)... and, most importantly, the young Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886). Liszt always held Czerny in very high regard, and dedicated his revised set of "Transcendental Etudes" to Czerny in 1852. Liszt certainly never forgot that it was thanks to Czerny that he had met his lifelong idol, Beethoven. After 1840, Czerny devoted himself primarily to composition. He was incredibly prolific, and published nearly 1,000 works -- almost none of which are heard today. The exception are his series of pedagogic piano studies (including the "School of Velocity" and the "School of Virtuosity"), which remain ubiquitous in piano studios across the world. Czerny also left behind an important essay on performing the piano sonatas of Beethoven, entitled "On The Proper Performance Of All Beethoven's Works For Piano" (1846), for which Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) had unreserved praise. PICTURED: A very finely produced c. 1820s/1830s “lifetime” engraving of Czerny, published by the Julius Schuberth music publishing house in Hamburg and showing Czerny as he appeared at the height of his fame.

[gcorvetti]

Buongiorno.

Oggi mi sono svegliato prestissimo e oltre a leggere le notizie, che dire che fanno schifo è un complimento, ho dato uno sguardo alle email, siccome ieri dopo 4 giorni ho scritto alla tizia della ditta delle scatole, dicendole che l'offerta fatta da lei è alta (per non dire assurda) e che magari sceglierò un articolo dal catalogo se non trovo altro, lei oltre ad avermi risposto quasi alle 4 di notte, chissà in che stato, mi dice che "eh si è meglio scegliere dal catalogo che chiedere una scatola custom che costa di più". Adesso non per essere puntiglioso ma avevo solo chiesto un tipo di cartone diverso per una misura che hanno in catalogo, che ci vuole a cambiare materiale senza cambiare il registro della macchina? Boh, forse non ha capito, che faccio la delucido o passo oltre? Ci penso su, alla fine a me serve una scatola decente per il mio gioco e che non costi 3€. Poi ho fatto un salto su FB, anche se oramai lo tengo solo per sfizio e non posto quasi mai, posto più qua che la per dirne una, comunque, scrollando o come dice un tizio sgrullando in basso ho notato un annuncio, non di quelli sponsorizzati che poi ti arrivano pubblicità a non finire, ma l'annuncio di una scuola di musica la Rokikooli di Roll, un tizio che suona la batteria in una band punk storica estone e che grazie a questa cosa si è aperto 2 locali e sta scuola di musica, cercano un insegnante di chitarra, non ricordo se avevo già scritto un paio di anni fa, insegnare non è proprio il mio obbiettivo come musicista, ma potrebbe darmi una mano economica e resterei nella musica, ho insegnato 3 anni in un istituto privato a Catania, Muzio Clementi si chiamava mi pare che andò in fallimento nel 99 o giù di li, dovrei chiedere a Martines visto che insegnava anche lui la, ma poco importa (ho controllato sembra che esista ancora e ha cambiato sede, ma come detto poco importa). L'unico problema sarebbe la lingua, non ho proprio le capacità linguistiche per impostare un corso di chitarra in estone se si può fare in inglese bene se no pazienza, finito qua scrivo magari mi chiamano per un colloquio chi lo può mai dire, dovrei anche rispolverare gli esercizi didattici di una volta e renderli moderni, ho studiato chitarra 40 anni fa, molte delle cose che ho studiato sono ancora validissime ma secondo me hanno bisogno di una rinfrescata per evitare che i giovani di oggi si annoino e abbandonino lo strumento, eh si all'inizio è una rottura per molti, alcuni, ricordo, che non tolleravano gli esercizi quelli semplici perché li trovavano tediosi, ma figlio mio (all'allievo) se non sai camminare come puoi metterti a correre?

Per il resto quasi tutto normale, le temperature stanno scendendo e la sera fa già fresco, purtroppo la mia lei è ancora in fase estiva e vuole dormire con la finestra aperta, io direi che è anche arrivata l'ora di chiuderla, vediamo come finisce sta diatriba.

Poi ci sarebbe il lavoro che ho appena finito, che nonostante sia finito il proprietario non chiude il contratto, non si è fatto sentire più, beh mi deve dei soldi, mi aveva chiamato per fare 5gg filati la scorsa settimana, quando lui stesso mi aveva cancellato i giorni per mobbizzarmi, allora sei coglione, comunque sta cosa è facilmente risolvibile, gli porto i vestiti (maglietta e grembiule) e gli dico di darmi i soldi, possibili scenari : 1. Mi dice che i soldi me li da il mese prossimo dritti nel conto bancario, e qua c'è solo da aspettare; 2. Che i soldi non me li da perché secondo lui (e anche Spock) mi sono comportato male, adesso levando lo schifo che fa quel posto e restando sul contratto ho fatto il mio, non sono mai arrivato in ritardo, mai ho gettato la spugna, anche quando stavo collassando per la mancanza di aria in una cucina che sta al di sotto del manto stradale e quando mi sono sentito male per via della contaminazione del pesce, ma sono riuscito a restare vigile e non collassare del tutto anche se ci sono andato vicino. Se fa il furbo scrivo a quelli dell'ispettorato del lavoro e fargli fare una visitina, io il lavoro l'ho fatto tu mi dai i soldi e ci siamo visti, non mi dai i soldi ti inculo senza vasella, non ho mezzi termini.

Buona giornata.

[lesser-known-composers]

Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) - Piano Sonata op.50 no.3 'Didone abbandonata'

Piano: Igor Cognolato

0:00 Largo patetico e sostenuto - Allegro ma con espressione, diliberando e meditando 13:11 Adagio dolente 18:40 Allegro agitato e con disperazione

[oconnormusicstudio]

Composers - F

Field John Field lived from 1782 until 1837 and was an Irish pianist and composer. He has been credited the invention of the Nocturne, a form later adopted and developed by Chopin. Field was born in Dublin in 1782, the son of a violinist, but moved with his family to London in 1793, perhaps taking violin lessons from Haydn’s friend Salomon. He became an apprentice of Muzio Clementi, appearing in…

[levysoft]

Due artisti di livello eccezionale arrivarono a punzecchiarsi in merito a una melodia. Ivan Graziani, con Agnese dolce Agnese, e Phil Collins, con Groovy kind of love, si diedero per un po' battaglia virtuale. Chi ha copiato chi? era in sostanza il casus belli. E via a sciorinare date, i momenti della pubblicazione, le piccole variazioni tematiche. Disputa divertente quanto, in realtà, surreale. Tra Collins e Graziani, infatti, si inserisce il terzo incomodo. Si tratta del compositore e pianista romano Muzio Clementi, nato nella Capitale nel 1752. Data l'epoca nella quale visse e operò, la querelle Collins-Graziani sembra definitivamente chiusa. 

(via Muzio Clementi - Sonatina op. 36 n. 5 in sol maggiore (parte 2) - 3. Rondò - YouTube e https://www.ilmessaggero.it/spettacoli/domenica_musica_muzio_gode-1985054.html)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 1.23

Beer Birthdays

John Carling (1828)

Leopold Schmidt (1846)

Emily Banks, Miss Rheingold 1960 (1933)

Charlie Papazian (1949)

Brian Reccow (1970)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Gary Burton; jazz musician (1943)

Jerry Kramer; Green Bay Packers G (1936)

Edouard Manet; artist (1831)

Walter M. Miller Jr.; science fiction writer (1923)

Django Reinhardt; jazz guitarist (1910)

Famous Birthdays

Ray Abrams; jazz saxophonist (1920)

John Luther Adams; composer (1953)

Richard Dean Anderson; actor (1950)

Lou Antonio; actor & director (1934)

David Arnold; English composer (1962)

Jean-Michel Atlan; Algerian-French painter (1913)

Georg Baselitz; German painter & sculptor (1938)

Frances Bay; Canadian-American actress (1919)

Rutland Boughton; English composer (1878)

Jonatha Brooke; singer-songwriter & guitarist (1964)

John Browning; weapons designer (1855)

Muzio Clementi; Italian pianist, composer, & conductor (1752)

Camilla Collett; writer (1813)

Otto Diels; German chemist (1876)

Abraham Diepraam; Dutch painter (1622)

Dan Duryea; actor (1907)

Sergei Eisenstein; film director (1898)

Gertrude Elion; pharmacologist (1918)

Gil Gerard; actor (1943)

John Hancock; politician, revolutionary (1737)

Mariska Hargitay; actress (1964)

Rutger Hauer; actor (1944)

Joseph Hewes; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1730)

Ernie Kovacs; comedian (1919)

Doutzen Kroes; Dutch model & actress (1985)

W. Arthur Lewis; Saint Lucian-Barbadian economist (1915)

Boris McGiver; actor (1962)

Jeanne Moreau; French actress (1928)

Walter Frederick Morrison; businessman, invented Frisbees (1920)

Alois Negrelli; Tyrolean engineer & railroad pioneer (1799)

Gail O'Grady; actress (1963)

Anita Pointer; singer-songwriter (1948)

Marty Paich; pianist, arranger (1925)

John Polanyi; German-Canadian chemist (1929)

Claire Rankin; Canadian actress (1971)

Tom Reamy; author (1935)

Chita Rivera; actress, singer, & dancer (1933)

Randolph Scott; actor (1898)

Ieva Simonaitytė; Lithuanian author (1897)

Richard T. Slone; English painter (1974)

Lisa Snowdon; model (1972)

Stendhal; French writer (1783)

Potter Stewart; supreme court justice (1915)

Tiffani-Amber Thiessen; actress (1974)

Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist and mathematician (1864)

Derek Walcott; Saint Lucian poet & playwright (1930)

Fred Williams; Australian painter (1927)

Hideki Yukawa; Japanese physicist (1907)

Robin Zander; rock musician (1953)