Carl Czerny: 101 Exercises For Piano: Piano: Instrumental Album

The majority of works by Czerny are confusing to most Piano academics. Out of these the following are still the classics: Op. 139 261 299 335 337 355 365 453 553 599 636 718 740 755 802 821 823 834 et 849. Each one of these volumes contains numerous exercises some contain more than a hundred. It is of course impossible for aspiring pianists to study them all and it is difficult for Piano teachers to sort them out and organise them into the ones that could be the most interesting in a logical and progressive way.This is exactly what Heinrich Germer has tried to do. Germer an outstanding teacher and German pianist was born in Sommerdorfin 1839 and died in Dresde in 1913. He was 18 years old when Cerny died at the age of 66 years. Germer had great luck in knowing the first generation of pianists he was studying and saw the need to reorganise this huge quantity of didactic material. Germer's success was down to the fact that his systematic organisation of Czerny's work split into three volumes continues to be the three used by contemporary piano teachers. Germer did not make hardly any changes to Czerny collections. And there is more - he adds dynamic text for phrasing and pedals so that there is more musicality in the books making the exercises more enjoyable to play. He changes some archaic armatures for more modern ones. He revises Czerny's method on regrouping notes by placing bar values making reading rhythms a lot easier. He corrected numerous printing errors. In the longest pieces he adds capital letters to indicate the beginning of each movement same or part period which helps pupils to know blocks it would be better for him to practise. The revision work undergone by Germer introduces order and the results obtained for the Piano teachers that use them are very satisfying.

Carl Czerny's Le Premier Maître Du Piano is a collection of 100 exercises composed by Czerny himself who having started composing at seven years of age is a something of an authority to learnfrom! This collection of exercises is intended to hone and perfect a number of different techniques and skills that are essential for all pianists.

The School Of Velocity Op.299 is firmly established as the standard scholarly collection of technical exercises used by piano pedagogues for nearly two centuries.This volume is made up of four books of technical exercises each book consisting of ten studies. Editor Gary Busch's careful and thorough research is reflected in this edition through his insightful commentary about Carl Czerny's life his style and technique and a unique guide to the individual exercises.

Les Cinq Doigts is a collection of 24 exercises for Solo Piano composed by Carl Czerny the prolific Austrian composer and teacher. Having produced over a thousand books this collection of exercises is still commonly used in Piano teaching today.

Essential Exercises-Czerny has been underestimated as a composer of studies for a long time. In the meantime however his studies are used more and more in lessons because he is a real master in tackling technical and musical problems in concise exercises. Against the background of the discussion about practising ('How to practise in an efficient and targeted manner') Czerny's studies have gained in importance. As a consequence Schott has included the well-known cycle 100 leichte Übungsstücke op. 139 in its study series 'Essential Exercises' with fingerings and didactic information by Wilhelm Ohmen.

Essential Exercises-The specific feature of '40 Daily Exercises' the extraordinary density of musical examples and specific technical problems in this small edition. In mostly one-bar formulas Czerny with his almost inexhaustible didactic imagination maps out a cosmos of technical training material which virtually condenses the idioms of the classical and early Romantic piano music between Haydn and Czerny's pupil Franz Liszt. Each study deals with a particular musical-technical problem which varies in appearance and is usually edited for both hands. All individual expressions expand and deepen the basic skills to be practised so that each individual number offers considerable learningpotential.

Essential Exercises-The studies and study works by Carl Czerny (1791-1857) are part of the standard repertoire of piano lessons. These collections count among the most popular and most important works in piano education.