Carl Czerny (1791 – 1857) was an
Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin
whose music spanned the late Classical and early
Romantic eras. His vast musical production amounted to
over a thousand works and his books of studies for the
piano are still widely used in piano teaching. He was
one of Ludwig van Beethoven's best-known pupils and
would later on be one of the main teachers of Franz
Liszt. Czerny composed a very large number of pieces
(more than one thousand ...(+)
Carl Czerny (1791 – 1857) was an
Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin
whose music spanned the late Classical and early
Romantic eras. His vast musical production amounted to
over a thousand works and his books of studies for the
piano are still widely used in piano teaching. He was
one of Ludwig van Beethoven's best-known pupils and
would later on be one of the main teachers of Franz
Liszt. Czerny composed a very large number of pieces
(more than one thousand and up to Op. 861). Czerny's
works include not only piano music (études,
nocturnes, sonatas, opera theme arrangements and
variations) but also masses and choral music,
symphonies, concertos, songs, string quartets and other
chamber music. The better known part of Czerny's
repertoire is the large number of didactic piano pieces
he wrote, such as The School of Velocity and The Art of
Finger Dexterity. He was one of the first composers to
use étude ("study") for a title. Czerny's body
of works also include arrangements of many popular
opera themes.
The majority of the pieces called by Czerny "serious
music" (masses, choral music, quartets, orchestral and
chamber music) remain in unpublished manuscript form
and are held by Vienna's Society for the Friends of
Music, to which Czerny (a childless bachelor) willed
his estate.
Czerny can be considered as a father of modern piano
technique for generations of pianists, when it is taken
into account that many of his students, such as Theodor
Leschetizky, Franz Liszt and Theodor Kullak, also
became teachers and passed on his legacy. The US music
magazine The Etude presented in its issue of April 1927
an illustration (see above) showing how Czerny could be
considered the father of modern piano technique and the
basis of an entire generation of pianists.
"Der Pianist im klassischen style" (Opus 856) is made
up of 48 preludes and fugues for piano.
Source: Wikipedia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Czerny).
Although originally written for solo piano. I created
this Arrangement of the Fugue in F Major (Op. 856 No.
6) from "Der Pianist im klassischen style" for String
Quartet (2 Violins, Viola & Cello).
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