Clement

(kla-mon), Felix Auguste, historian b. Pans, Jan. 13, 1822, d. there, Jan. 23, 1885. Studied music secretly; orgt. at Sorbonne and director at Sainte Chapelle; edited early music; wrote method for plainsong, a history of music and one of religious music, and Dictionnaire lyrique (1868, supplements to *81, re-edited by Pougin 1897), valuable reference list of operas, with dates of performance, etc. Clement^ Muzio, pst., compr b. Rome, 1752: d. Evesham, War wicks hire, Eng., Mar 10, 1832. Father a silversmith with musical tastes had child taught early by orgt. Buroni and Cord i cell i; at 9 C won position as oigt. in competitive test; later taught by Carpani and Santarelli. Performance of ma composed at 14 attracted attention COATES of Peter Beckford, who took boy to England to be educated. In 1770 C burst upon London as remarkably equipped pst. and from 1777- 1780 was cembalist at Italian opera. In 1781 traveled to Paris and ultimately to Vienna, where he and Mozart played together in rivalry; though the victoiy was awarded to neither, C thereafter adopted smoother and le mechanical methods of playing. On return to England C. gamed large fortune from interest in mus. publishing (both with others and at establishment of his own), and by teaching. In 1802 he took John Field to St. Petersbuig, taught Meyer beer, and met Beethoven who admired his works in Geimany, and in 1S10 returned to England for most of the rest of his life As a teacher he had wide influence on Field, Cramer, Berger, Moscheles, Meyeibeer, etc.; as a player and composer, he established modem pf. playing. His sonatas fixed the form of pf. sonata and his Gradus ad Parna um 100 pf studies, aie still indispensable to a thorough training. He wrote about 100 sonatas, other pf. pieces, some unpublished orch. mus.; his works are marked by precision of form, fresh quickne of movement, and lack of sentimentality. Clough-Leighter, H., compr b. Washington, D C., May 13, 1874. Studied harmony and pf. with mother at five, and later with Henry Xander and Humfrey Anger. Boy soprano; organist at fifteen, holding positions in Washington and Jhovidence; devoted chiefly to composition of church and secular cantatas and songs, some with orchestral accomp.; lives in Boston.