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...(+)
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chamber music) remain in unpublished manuscript form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 Bb Major (Op. 856 No.
10) from "Der Pianist im klassischen style" for String
Quartet (2 Violins, Viola & Cello).
