Jansy Mello: There are several musicians whose names
may be associated to "Gradus ad Parnassum," as every
piano-learning child in the early fifties must remember. I checked wikipedia
about Muzio Clementi (24 January 1752 - 10 March 1832), a composer,
pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer.
Born in Italy, he spent most of his life in England....Though the European
reputation of Muzio Clementi was second only to Joseph Haydn in his
day, his
reputation languished for much of the 19th and 20th centuries [ ] In
1826 Clementi completed his collection of keyboard studies,
Gradus ad
Parnassum, and set off for Paris with the intention of
publishing the third volume of the work simultaneously in Paris, London and
Leipzig....