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chamber music) remain in unpublished manuscript form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