ed in, and Henry died early on the following day. Clement's body
was afterwards quartered and burned. This deed, however, was viewed with
far different feelings in Paris and by the partisans of the League, the
murderer being regarded as a martyr and extolled by Pope Sixtus V.,
while even his canonization was discussed.

See E. Lavisse, _Histoire de France_, tome vi. (Paris, 1904).

CLEMENTI, MUZIO (c. 1751-1832), Italian pianist and composer, was born
at Rome between 1750 and 1752. His father, a jeweller, encouraged his
son's early musical talent. Buroni and Cordicelli were his first
masters, and at the age of nine Clementi's theoretical and practical
studies had advanced to such a degree that he was able to win the
position of organist at a church. He continued his studies under
Santarelli and Carpani, and at the age of fourteen wrote a mass which
was performed in public. About 1766 Beckford, the author of _Vathek_,
persuaded Clementi to follow him to England, where the young composer
lived in retirement at one of the country seats of his protector in
Dorsetshire until 1770. In that year he first appeared in London, where
his success both as composer and pianist was rapid and brilliant. In
1777 he was for some time employed as conductor of the Italian opera,
but he soon afterwards left London for Paris. Here also his concerts
were crowded by enthusiastic audiences, and the same success accompanied
Clementi on a tour about the year 1780 to southern Germany and Austria.
At Vienna, which he visited between 1781 and 1782, he was received with
high honour by the emperor Joseph II., in whose presence he met Mozart,
and fought a kind of musical duel with him. His technical skill proved
to be equal if not superior to that of his rival, who on the other hand
infinitely surpassed him by the passionate beauty of his interpretation.
It is worth noting that one of the finest of Clementi's sonatas, that in
B flat, shows an exactly identical opening theme with Mozart's overture
to the _Flauto Magico_.

In May 1782 Clementi returned to London, where for the next twelve years
he continued his lucrative occupations of fashionable teacher and
performer at the concerts of the aristocracy. He took shares in the
pianoforte business of a firm which went bankrupt in 1800. He then
established a pianoforte and music business of his own, under the name
of Clementi & Co. Other members were added to the firm, including
Collard and Davis,