Remembered as one of the most noted and influential musicians of Classico–Romantic Europe, ‘the first of the great virtuosos’ (Harold C Schonberg, 1963), Muzio Clementi, born in Rome, spent the greater part of his life in England, working variously as composer, pianist, teacher (his pupils including Czerny, Field and Meyerbeer), publisher (of Beethoven among others), and piano maker. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.