Music Of The Great Composers --

John Field-Part 5 On February 7, 1799, at a performance for the benefit of Pinto the younger at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, Master Field played his own concerto for the grand forte piano. It may be well to note that Field was kept for several years by Clementi as a hack for showing his pianos, and one can well imagine the drudgery experienced by such a rising genius, compelled to strum away daily for the delectation of would be purchase..