Carl Czerny

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Carl Czerny (1791-1771) was an Austrian composer, lecturer, and pianist of Czech origins whose prolific musical output amounted to more than a thousand works.

His books of research for the piano are also popular in piano lessons.

He was also known as one of Ludwig Van Beethoven's few pupils.

Early life

Carl Czerny was born in Vienna (Leopoldstadt) and baptized in St. Leopold parish. His parents were of Czech origin; his mother was Moravian. His parents spoke Czech with him. Czerny came from a musical family: his grandfather was a violinist at Nymburk, near Prague, and his father, Wenzel, was an oboist, organist, and pianist. As Czerny was six months old, his father took up a job as a piano tutor at a Polish manor, and the family and their families immigrated to Poland, where they remained until the third partition of Poland in 1795.

Czerny started playing piano at the age of three and composing at age seven. His first piano teacher was his father, who taught him mainly Bach, Haydn, and Mozart. He began conducting piano recitals in his parents' house. In 1800, Czerny performed his first public appearance in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 1 in 1800. In C minor, there are 24 people.

Wenzel Krumpholz, a Czech composer and violinist, scheduled a Czerny presentation at Ludwig van Beethoven's home in 1801. Beethoven pleaded for Czerny to appear in his Pathétique Sonata and Adelaide. Beethoven was captivated by the 10-year-old's appearance and accepted him as a pupil. Czerny remained under Beethoven's tutelage until 1804 and then sporadically thereafter. Beethoven adored Beethoven's instrument, his fingering, the agility of his scales and trills, and his stubborn demeanour when performing.

Czerny's autobiography and letters provide many important references and information about Beethoven during this period. Czerny was the first to alert signs of Beethoven's deafness many years before it was known. "I also noticed with the vigor peculiar to children that he had cotton that seemed to have been steeped in a yellowish ointment in his ears." During Beethoven's first meeting, he wrote:

For the premiere of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in Czerny, Beethoven selected Czerny as pianist. Czerny performed in 1806 and then in February 1812, the Vienna premiere of Beethoven's "Emperor" Piano Concerto was held. Czerny said that his musical memory enabled him to play virtually all of Beethoven's piano performances by heart, and that he appeared in this manner at Prince Lichnowsky's palace every week or even twice a week, with the Prince requesting only the desired opus numbers. Czerny maintained a friendship with Beethoven throughout his life, and he taught piano lessons to Beethoven's nephew Carl.

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Later career

Czerny began teaching at the age of fifteen and had a fruitful teaching career. Czerny taught up to 12 lessons a day in the homes of Viennese nobility, basing his method on Beethoven and Muzio Clementi. Theodor Döhler, Stephen Heller, Anna Sick, Sigismond Thalberg, and Ninette de Belleville were among his'star' pupils. Franz Liszt's father took his son to Czerny in 1819, who recalled: "It's father, not so much!"

Liszt was Czerny's most popular pupil. Beethoven, Clegg, Ignaz Moscheles, and Johann Sebastian Bach, he arranged the boy. As Czerny, the Liszt family lived on the same street in Vienna as Czerny, who was so impressed by the boy that he taught him free of charge. Liszt would later return this admiration by playing Czerny's music at several of his Paris recitals. Czerny arranged the transfer of Liszt to Beethoven just weeks before Liszt's Vienna concert on April 13, 1823 (his last concert of the season) with some regret (as Beethoven increasingly disliked child prodigies). Beethoven was so impressed with Liszt that he gave him a kiss on the forehead. Liszt lived near Czerny, and his Études d'exemplicity transcendante were published in 1852 with a dedication to Czerny.

Czerny left Vienna only to go to Italy, France (in 1837, when Liszt helped with his care) and England. Czerny devoted himself solely to composition after 1840. He wrote a large number of piano solo exercises for the improvement of the pianistic method, with the intention of covering everything from the first lessons for children to the needs of the most advanced virtuoso. (See Carl Czerny's Complete list of compositions).

Czerny died in Vienna at the age of 66. He never married and had no near relatives. Since arranging for the appearance of a Requiem mass in his memory, his enormous fortune will be donated to charities (including an institution for the deaf), his housekeeper, and the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna.

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