Near Matches
Ignore Exact
Full Text
Carl Czerny
created by
stepnwolf
(
person
) by
stepnwolf
(5 y)
(
print
)
?
(
I like it!
)
1
C!
Wed May 16 2001 at 17:51:46
Carl Czerny (1791-1857)
When your
piano teacher
first
haul
s out a pale yellow
volume
of
music
with the
stark
letters
C Z E R N Y
on the cover, you know you're in for it. You've successfully passed
Schumann
's "The Happy Farmer" and may have flirted a bit with
J.S. Bach
, but you are now ready for the master of exercise and boredom: Carl Czerny. He was born in Vienna in 1791 and died there in 1857. And that is more than most piano students know about him.
What else is there to know other than that most piano students will sooner or later grow to
hate
him. He came from quite a
musical
family
: his
grandfather
was a
violinist
and his father an
organ
ist, oboist,
singer
and piano teacher. As a child of only 3, he was already playing the piano and by 7 he was writing down his musical ideas. He studied with
Beethoven
who taught him the fine art of
legato
, using
C. P. E. Bach
's
Versuch
, which was so different from the style required by
Mozart
's music. He later lost interest in performing and for the rest of his life he taught
piano
and along the way creating 15 noted composers of the time, including
Franz Liszt
.
His works included 6
symphonies
,
mass
es,
requiem
s,
sonata
s, and
sonatina
s, totaling more than 1000 works written in a period of over 40 years -- many of them
flashy
and none of them
memorable
. As a boy I remember being back stage after a performance by the great pianist, Arthur Rubenstein (1887-1982), and overheard a student ask him about Czerny. He responded, "Better Bach, Bach and more Bach." That says it all!
printable version
chaos
Close your eyes, hold your breath and jump
Études
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Franz Liszt
Clear and Present Danger
Artur Rubinstein
Henry Miller
piano teacher
Artur Schnabel
Y'know, if you
log in
, you can write something here, or contact authors directly on the site.
Create a New User
if you don't already have an account.
Login
Password
remember me
password reminder
register
Everything2 Help
The best nodes of all time:
Walt Whitman
A funny story about my Egyptian Grandmother
Communications Security Establishment
Comics Code Authority
Lolita
Alien abduction
Computer Numerical Control
Ouagadougou
My old man
Choosing a node title
porridge
Great Depression
Farmer's Market
antigravpussy
One fly amongst many
(
person
)
sam512
Moon Base Shackleton, 1978
(
fiction
)
Pavlovna
toy boy
(
person
)
XWiz
tear jerker
(
review
)
Heitah
Anarchy is Order
(
idea
)
jessicaj
July 26, 2008
(
dream
)
Berek
ABBA
(
person
)
devolution
k-hole
(
place
)
Nadine_2
The Sound Of Madness
(
review
)
SwimmingMonkey
Conversations with Fo Fo, the Loneliest dog in Purgatory
(
fiction
)
locke baron
lynx
(
thing
)
Simulacron3
Reality, Dimensions and the Natural Ontology
(
essay
)
SubSane
Making Love to a 9-Foot Woman
(
person
)
Ouzo
Thoughts
(
idea
)
antigravpussy
I fall silent, listening. The breadcrumbs are talking about us
(
person
)
E2 is a by-product of the existence of
The Everything Development Company
