Musio Clementi's long life spanned the epochs of the late Baroque, Classicism and Romanticism. At the time of his birth in Rome in 1752, Domenico Scarlatti was still alive, and pronounced traces of his eccentric style can be found in Clementi's sonatas into the 1790's. His great piano pieces of the 1790's left their mark on the artistic development of the young Beethoven, who - unlike Mozart - was deeply impressed by the virtuosic pathos of Clementi's music, as well as the brilliant technical ability of Clementi's student Johann Baptist Cramer - Bernhard Trebuch