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evannn

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Czerny pieces

on: March 30, 2016, 06:50:14 PM

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knew of any easier czerny pieces? I have looked at a lot of his sonatas and nocturnes but they look a little too hard for me, although it's fairly difficult to find his works on youtube outside of his etudes, so I may be wrong about the difficulty. Its because of the lack of recordings i can find that I'm struggling to find what pieces may sound good (and there is an overwhelming amount of works by him too haha!)

I can currently play some of beethovens easier sonatas, so somewhere around beethoven's sonata no 1 or no 10. Pathetique is probably at the very peak of my ability (as in, I could learn it and play it well, but not well enough for any performances). I'm about grade 8 level, but can play some dipABRSM pieces, depending on the piece (grade 8 and diploma for ABRSM).

I should say I'm not looking for his etudes, or similar studies, more performance pieces.

Thanks,
Evan

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briansaddleback

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Re: Czerny pieces

Reply #1 on: March 30, 2016, 06:59:16 PM

who said Czerny??

"got czerny?"
is the next t-shirt I purchase.

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Re: Czerny pieces

Reply #2 on: March 30, 2016, 07:03:13 PM

Haha wow, someone trying to play something other than his etudes! Well personally this is one of my favorite works by him:

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evannn

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Re: Czerny pieces

Reply #3 on: March 30, 2016, 07:14:48 PM

Quote from: mjames on March 30, 2016, 07:03:13 PM

Haha wow, someone trying to play something other than his etudes! Well personally this is one of my favorite works by him:

Thank you

They sound beautiful! Nice and short too, so I can see if I enjoy playing him, without starting on a 40 page sonata lol. They look at the right difficulty also, and a couple seem to focus heavily on my weaker areas, so should be beneficial too.

I really like a lot of his performance pieces, and his symphonies are just amazing, his definitely one of my most favourite composers, yet I rarely listen to him! It's a shame in some ways he composed his etudes, they seem to overshadow his performance pieces so much...

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adodd81802

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Re: Czerny pieces

Reply #4 on: March 30, 2016, 08:19:30 PM

That's a few nice pieces in his progressive books depending on your skill level you can skip to the later pages and give those pieces a go.

EDIT although as I re read your comment I notice you're not interested in the studies! Woops. There's still a good couple of pieces in there either way!

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evannn

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Re: Czerny pieces

Reply #5 on: March 30, 2016, 09:10:29 PM

Quote from: adodd81802 on March 30, 2016, 08:19:30 PM

That's a few nice pieces in his progressive books depending on your skill level you can skip to the later pages and give those pieces a go.

EDIT although as I re read your comment I notice you're not interested in the studies! Woops. There's still a good couple of pieces in there either way!

Don't suppose you know what pieces they are? There's quite a lot of pieces, and listening to his progressive studies till I find one I like sounds extremely tedious haha.

I've got 2 of his progressive books, not massively keen on doing them normally to be honest. For me, while they'd probably help, they're likely going to be counter-productive since if I don't enjoy playing, since I'd probably play a couple of hours every 2 days or so if that, as opposed to 3-4 hours a day on a piece I truly love. I do use the easier ones for sight reading occasionally though, since I do struggle in sight reading scales or arpeggios.

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evannn

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Reply #6 on: March 30, 2016, 09:56:48 PM

Quote from: evannn on March 30, 2016, 09:10:29 PM

Don't suppose you know what pieces they are? There's quite a lot of pieces, and listening to his progressive studies till I find one I like sounds extremely tedious haha.

I've got 2 of his progressive books, not massively keen on doing them normally to be honest. For me, while they'd probably help, they're likely going to be counter-productive since if I don't enjoy playing, since I'd probably play a couple of hours every 2 days or so if that, as opposed to 3-4 hours a day on a piece I truly love. I do use the easier ones for sight reading occasionally though, since I do struggle in sight reading scales or arpeggios.

I cant seem to edit :/ But I got mixed up, between progressive studies, and his school of velocity, finger dexterity etc. Progressive studies do sound quite nice actually! Thank you

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klavieronin

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Reply #7 on: March 30, 2016, 10:13:35 PM

Have a look at the first prelude and fugue from Op.856. Pretty sure it's on IMSLP.

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Reply #8 on: March 30, 2016, 10:28:31 PM

Quote from: evannn on March 30, 2016, 09:56:48 PM

I cant seem to edit :/ But I got mixed up, between progressive studies, and his school of velocity, finger dexterity etc. Progressive studies do sound quite nice actually! Thank you

No problem! As mentioned the later ones are more interesting! Most of his works are here

https://pianoexercises.org/exercises/czerny/

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Re: Czerny pieces

Reply #9 on: April 01, 2016, 06:17:44 PM

Im gettin it

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Reply #10 on: April 01, 2016, 06:22:13 PM

Quote from: briansaddleback on April 01, 2016, 06:17:44 PM

Im gettin it

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Re: Czerny pieces

Reply #11 on: April 02, 2016, 01:47:20 AM

Quote from: briansaddleback on April 01, 2016, 06:17:44 PM

Shouldn't there be a "Z" in there somewhere? Or have I missed the joke?

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Reply #12 on: April 02, 2016, 06:39:35 AM

Oh god you're right

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Reply #13 on: April 04, 2016, 03:27:58 PM

Quote from: visitor on April 01, 2016, 06:22:13 PM

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