Duelling with Mozart

Pianist Fionnuala Moynihan continues her exploration of the sonatas of Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) in the Hugh Lane Gallery’s Sundays@Noon series on May 10. The Rome-born Clementi spent most of his life in London and has an Irish ‘connection’ in that he was a tutor of John Field. He also once engaged in a piano duel with a young whippersnapper named Wolfgang Mozart. It was meant as entertainment at a court banquet in Vienna ...