What genre of musical theatre was the final sonata composed by a popular Italian-born British composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer titled after?
Didone abbandonata (Clementi) Didone Abbandonata - Piano Sonata in G, Op. 50, No.3 is the final sonata composed by Muzio Clementi in 1821. It was titled after Metastasio's often-set opera libretto of the same name, and Clementi seeks to tell the tragic story of Virgil's heroine instrumentally. It is the only example of such a programmatic piece in the composer's oeuvre.
Fitzwilliam Sonatas Fitzwilliam Sonatas is the name first given by Thurston Dart to an arrangement he made, based on two recorder sonatas by George Frideric Handel, which he recast as a group of three sonatas. The term was applied by later editors to the original two sonatas as Handel wrote them, and was also expanded to encompass several other sonatas for various instruments included in the Handel autograph manuscripts held by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.