26 Piano Sonata shows, thoughts of expressing a kind ... whose playing of his own works and those of his teacher Muzio Clementi caused quite a storm. Beethoven felt the need to compete with ...

Donald Macleod explores Clementi's contact with the greatest composers of his day, reassessing the life and music of the man known as the 'father of the piano'.

The directors of the Philharmonic Society requested his burial here. The present gravestone was laid down in 1876 and reads: MUZIO CLEMENTI CALLED THE FATHER OF THE PIANOFORTE. HIS FAME AS A MUSICIAN ...