| Work Title
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Introduction to the Art of Playing on the Pianoforte
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| Alternative. Title
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Einleitung in die Kunst das Pianoforte
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| Composer
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Clementi, Muzio
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| Title-page Details
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Title-page transcription
- Clementi's Introduction to the Art of Playing on the Pianoforte Including the Elements of Music; Preliminary notions on Fingering with examples, and 50 fingered Lessons In the major and minor keys mostly in use by Composers of the first rank, Ancient and Modern. To which are prefixed short Preludes by the Author.
- Introduction à l'Art de toucher le Piano-Forte : Contenant les premiers Elémens de la Musique, les notions nécessaires du doigter expliquées par des exemples, et L. Leçons servant à l'exercice du doigter dans les tons majeurs et mineurs les plus usités, d'après les meilleurs Compositeurs des différens tems, précédés de courts Préludes composés par l'Auteur
- Einleitung in die Kunst das Pianoforte Enthaltend Die Anfangsgründe der Music; Die Nöthingen Begriffe zur Fingersetzung mit Beyspielen erländert, und 50 Lektionen zur Uebung in der Fingersetzung aus den gewöhnlichsten Dur und Molltönung nach den Mustern der vorzüchlichsten ältern neuern Komponisten; nebst kurzen vorangehenden Praeludien von Verfasser </span>
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| Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.
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Op.42
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| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
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None [force assignment]
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| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
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18 preludes and 50 lessons:
- Prelude (C major)
Mozart: Away with melancholy (from Die Zauberflöte, K.620) (C major)
- Aria: Ah! vous dirai-je, maman (C major)
- George Frideric Handel: Air, in Atalanta (HWV 35) (C major)
- Handel: Air, in Saul (HWV 53). Moderato (C major)
- Handel: Dead March, in Saul (HWV 53). Grave (C major)
- Arcangelo Corelli: Allegro (C major)
- Prelude (A minor)
Corelli: Gavotta. Allegro (A minor)
- Prelude (F major)
Handel: Air, in Judas Maccabeus (See, the conqu'ring hero comes!, from HWV 63) (F major)
- Handel: March, in Judas Maccabeus (HWV 63) (F major)
- Corelli: Sarabanda. Vivace (F major)
- Corelli: Giga. Allegro (F major)
- Mozart: Arietta. Andante (F major)
- Mozart: Minuet and Trio (F major)
- F. Couperin: Le réveil-matin (from Premier livre de pièces de clavecin) (F major)
- Prelude (D minor)
D. Scarlatti: Larghetto (Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K.34) (D minor)
- Corelli: Allemanda. Allegro (D minor)
- Corelli: Sarabanda. Allegro (D minor)
- Prelude (G major)
Ah vous dirai-je maman (G major)
- Triste Raison. Andante (G major)
- Fal, lal, la. Air in the Cherokee (G major)
- Ignaz Pleyel: Larghetto (G major)
- Arietta. Allegro (G major)
- Pleyel: German Hymn, with Variations. Andante (G major)
- Dussek: Andantino ma Moderato e con espressione (G major)
- Handel: Allegro (G major)
- Handel: Minuet in Samson (HWV 57) (G major)
- Joseph Haydn: God Save the Emperor. Poce Adagio, Cantabile (Das Kaiserlied) (G major)
- Haydn: Rondo in the Gipsy stile (III. Finale: Rondo all'Ongarese from Piano Trio in G major (G major)
- Prelude (E minor)
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Tambourin. Vivace (from Pièces de clavecin) (E minor)
- Prelude (B♭ major)
D. Scarlatti: Minuetto (Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, K.42) (B♭ major)
- Lindor, an Air. Allegretto (B♭ major)
- Mozart: Minuet and Trio. A tempo di ballo (B♭ major)
- Handel: Gavotta, in Otho (B♭ major)
- Johann Baptist Cramer: Andante with Variations, M.2.046 (B♭ major)
- Prelude (G minor)
D. Scarlatti: Allegro (Keyboard Sonata in G minor, K.35) (G minor)
- Prelude (D major)
Corelli: Gavotta. Allegro (D major)
- Handel: Minuet in Ariadne (D major)
- Handel: March in the Occasional Oratorio (D major)
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Waltz (Ländler Nos.1 and 2 from 7 Ländler, WoO 11) (D major)
- Corelli: Allegro (D major)
- Prelude (B minor)
Corelli: Giga (B minor)
- Prelude (E♭ major)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Rondo in E-flat major, H.288
- Prelude (C minor)
D. Scarlatti: Minuet (Keyboard Sonata in C minor, K.40) (C minor)
- Prelude (A major)
Pietro Domenico Paradies: Andante Allegretto (A major)
- Prelude (F♯ minor)
Corelli: Adagio (F♯ minor)
- Prelude (A♭ major)
F. Couperin: Slow March (A♭ major)
- Prelude (F minor)
F. Couperin: Allegretto (F minor)
- Prelude (E major)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Polonoise and Minuet (Polonaise (No.5) and Menuet (No.7) from French Suite No.6 in E major, BWV 817) (E major)
- Corelli: Gavotta. Allegro (E major)
- Prelude (C♯ minor)
Haydn: Minuet (without Trio from) Keyboard Sonata in C-sharp minor (C♯ minor)
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| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.
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1801
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| Language
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English (translations in German, French)
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| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Classical
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| Piece Style
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Classical
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| Instrumentation
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piano
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| Related Works
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Preludes and Exercises, Op.43, the Appendix or Second Part to this work.
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