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99 In his day, the European reputation of Muzio Clementi was second only to Haydn.

Amir, who has played the piano for about three years, said he performed a waltz by Robert Schumann and a sonatina by Muzio Clementi.

Diverting as these oddities may be, they inspire little confidence in followers of the grand tradition of piano playing, a chain of interpretation that extends back to Liszt and Clara Schumann, and beyond them to the great 18th-century duels of Mozart and Muzio Clementi.

From there he has moved on to widen his field and in a recent recording (CDA 66808 000) he played four sonatas by Muzio Clementi (1752-1832): D Major, F sharp Minor, B Flat Major and B Minor.

Composers represented in The Classical Fake Book include Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Georges Bizet, Johannes Brahms, Frederic Chopin, Muzio Clementi, Claude Debussy, Antonin Dvorak, Gabriel Faure, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, George Frederick Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Aram Khatchaturian, Franz Liszt, Gustav Mahler, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Niccolo Paganini, Sergei Prokofiev, Giacomo Puccini, Henry Purcell, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Alexander Scriabin, John Philip Sousa, Johann Strauss Jr.

The quirk when it comes to his Beethoven concerto cycle - this is the second instalment - is his inclusion of the so-called Concerto in D Major, which is, in fact, a piano version of the Violin Concerto that Beethoven prepared for the pianist and publisher Muzio Clementi.

00am CD Masters Noon Composer of the Week: Muzio Clementi 1.

I have used imagery-inspired lyrics with both my precollege and college students to: * Encourage rhythmic accuracy * Voice the melody * Assist phrasing and achieve climaxes in phrases * Produce stronger dynamic contrasts * Enhance or encourage accuracy in articulation * Encourage steady tempo (and prevent rushing) * Strengthen understanding of form and encourage changes in character, mood or color * Identify, voice and articulate motives in contrapuntal music * Strengthen mental focus, especially in passages difficult to memorize Rhythmic Accuracy A precollege student was preparing the first movement of Sonatina in F, Opus 36, by Muzio Clementi for local MTNA auditions.