After seven years and hundreds of classical music Sundays, it's getting harder to find composers whose music I haven't already posted. In particular, I've just about mined out the Romantic era (say, from Beethoven through Mahler). But not quite.
Carl Czerny was an Austrian (actually Czech, which was ruled by the Austrian Emperors back then) piano virtuoso - his 101 Exercises is still part of piano instruction today. Pupil of Beethoven himself, he taught Franz Liszt while composing over a thousand pieces in the finest Romantic tradition. A 1927 Etude magazine article showed that his teaching (and pupils) basically were the pantheon of great piano instructors.
2 comments:
Amazing that someone can coordinate fingers and mind to play the piano in such an impressive way.
Excellent post.
I remember a book of his exercises in my piano training.
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