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Carl CZERNY (1791-1857)
Carl CZERNY (February 21, 1791 – July 15, 1857) was an Austrian pianist, composer and teacher. He is best remembered today for his books of etudes for the piano. CZERNY knew and was influenced by the well-known pianists Muzio CLEMENTI and Johann Nepomuk HUMMEL.Carl CZERNY was a child prodigy, making his first appearance in public in 1800 playing a MOZART piano concerto. Later, he gave the Vienna premiere of BEETHOVEN's Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" in 1812.
CZERNY quickly took to teaching and by the age of fifteen, he was already a sought after instructor. His most famous student was Franz LISZT, who dedicated his twelve Transcendental Etudes to CZERNY and also involved him in the collaborative work Hexaméron (the fifth variation on Bellini's theme is his).
CZERNY also composed a very large number of pieces (up to Op. 861), including a number of Masses and Requiems, and a large number of symphonies, concertos, sonatas and string quartets. None of these pieces are played often today, however, and he is known as a composer almost exclusively because of the large number of didactic piano pieces he wrote, many of which are still used today, 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 died in Vienna at the age of 66.
[Biography extract from Wikipedia]
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