Czerny pieces

[evannn]

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

[briansaddleback]

who said Czerny??

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

[mjames]

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

[evannn]

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...

[adodd81802]

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!

[evannn]

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.

[evannn]

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

[klavieronin]

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

[adodd81802]

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/

[briansaddleback]

Im gettin it

[visitor]

Im gettin it

[klavieronin]

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

[briansaddleback]

Oh god you're right 

[visitor]