Best finger studies?

[sharmayelverton]

Hey,

What your favorite pieces that make good finger studies around the difficulty of Debussy's Doctor Grandus ad Parnassum of CPE's Solfeggietto?

[pianoplayjl]

Czerny.

[sharmayelverton]

What everything by him? I'v played a bunch of Czerny and I've never yet found anything particularly interesting. I'm open to recommendations if anyone wishes to propose something specific.

[philb]

Czerny seems useless. Scarlatti is the way to go.

[pianoplayjl]

No, czerny must be OK because Liszt used to practice them during childhood, I think. or Czerny forced him to.

[sharmayelverton]

I was actually asking for recommendations on a piece of music that would be worth performing. Not just a technical exercise. I have enough of those already. People could argue about the benefits of Czerny all day and probably have countless times on this forum.

[pianoplayjl]

I reckon Cramer might be OK. i've never heard his music though. I reckon his are etudes.

[49410enrique]

maybe try some of these?
Moszkowski - Etude(s) de virtuosite

bonus, not an etude  but really a cool fast piece, would work as a great adjunct to an etude if you wanted some work on repeated notes in the context of a character piece:

i could see how getting the repeats under control with so much else going on could be a fun challenge:
Moszkowski Caprice Espagnol

[sharmayelverton]

Oh that's a cool piece. Thank you I hadn't heard of Moszkowski. This is exactly the kind of thing I wanted to discover.