[VIDEO] Czerny Op.599 No.61

[wendylucian]

It’s been a long time since the last time I practiced with Czerny. I started play back yesterday. It’s quite difficult to reach the right tempo of this song (Allegro), I just could play with the allegretto tempo.

[alex-plays.org]

Very nice, Wendy - Thank you for sharing. 

So good to hear to you play Czerny.

Aside from the famous studies, which of course are wonderful, Czerny left us some wonderful works -

The problem is that much of this material is out of print and has yet to be digitized - It can be difficult to obtain, therefore, and I fear its loss for future generations of pianists.

[perfect_pitch]

I'm pretty sure that's not the slightest bit true. I have a couple of very good music stores here and I myself purchased the Op 599 set in paper volume only a couple of years ago.

I'm sure there are Schirmer editions still printing it. Czerny isn't one that will fade out over history.

[alex-plays.org]

Op 599 is one of the famous studies, and you are right, Perfect, in that it is easy to obtain. 

Take a look at the extensive list of works by Czerny - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Carl_Czerny

Aside from the famous studies, much of it is more challenging to obtain.

I'm pretty sure that's not the slightest bit true. I have a couple of very good music stores here and I myself purchased the Op 599 set in paper volume only a couple of years ago.

I'm sure there are Schirmer editions still printing it. Czerny isn't one that will fade out over history.

[perfect_pitch]

Have you seen this site as well???

https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Czerny,_Carl

While a lot of these are scanned from out of print books, you know that the ability to get it in a paper book is also still around.

I think because of the younger generation using digital books and prints, that the music won't be lost to the ages... but will become harder to get in paper format.

I think it will however live on the internet for a long, long, very long time.

[alex-plays.org]

Let's hope so:

Looking at that long list of works, I wonder how many of them are played, known or recognizable today, and how many copies remain of each.

Once digitized, even if this is just a poor quality scan, perhaps there is hope that the publishing, academic or open source community will produce a better quality version.

Have you seen this site as well???

https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Czerny,_Carl

While a lot of these are scanned from out of print books, you know that the ability to get it in a paper book is also still around.

I think because of the younger generation using digital books and prints, that the music won't be lost to the ages... but will become harder to get in paper format.

I think it will however live on the internet for a long, long, very long time.

[thalbergmad]

The Italian musicologist Luca Chierici has been digitalising Czerny scores for the last 15 years at least.
I think it is about 90% complete.
His original works are beginning to be more widely recognised and the future looks good.

[alex-plays.org]

That's wonderful :-)

The Italian musicologist Luca Chierici has been digitalising Czerny scores for the last 15 years at least.
I think it is about 90% complete.
His original works are beginning to be more widely recognised and the future looks good.

[wendylucian]

I’ve just played some more Czerny practice pieces. I was very happy when I found my Czerny book. It reminds me of my childhood when I started  learning piano.