Piano Techniques of Czerny

[liezly]

Hi! I'm a new member of the Piano Forum.  I need help regarding the different piano techniques of Carl Czerny.  And how these techniques influenced the Romantic Piano music?

Can anyone help me about this topic?

Thanks!

[david]

I can only say that Czerny was the teacher of Liszt and Leschetizky, so I think it is an astonished coincidence.If you want to know more about this there is a book by Luca Chiantore.

[rachfan]

Czerny was a student of Beethoven, Hummel, and Clementi.   He was also the teacher of Liszt and Leschetizky as mentioned above.  Other students and later liminaries included Dachs, Kullak, Lacombe and Seyfried.  Obviously, he is best known for his very numerous studies, most of which have since fallen into disuse.  Developing technic today is based more on overcoming  difficulties directly from studying the repertoire than from mindless finger exercises or learning  etudes that are not part of the repertoire.   All of his larger serious works have been long forgotten.

Insofar as technique is concerned, Czerny emphasized freedom of movement; however, he asked his pupils to take a quiet, restrained approach to the keyboard.  He cautioned light use of the damper pedal for composers before Beethoven.  He also exhorted his pupils to listen to their playing and to develop tonal sensitivities.  He believed deeply in the value of practicing: "Practice is the great Magician, who not only makes apparent impossibilities performable, but even easy" he would say.  (I just looked up that quote to get it down exactly.) Sound familiar?  These sensible points on piano playing not only influenced the Romantic era, but have all carried forward to our own day.

My sense is that Czerny's legacy to us is not his forgotten dusty collection of etudes; rather it's his sound advice which has withstood the test of time.

[renan]

You can improve your technics by studyin czerny's etudes. You don't need to do all of them but they will be realy helpful when you play complicated things. For example, it helps you when you use repeating technich. It helps me a lot but I find it little bit boring because the melody is really simple..