Czerny Fingering

[keys1970]

I am playing a few Czerny collections:  Opus 599, 718, and 821.  Are the fingerings considered “correct” for those passages, or perhaps are they considered slightly alternative in order to develop the fingers?  They seem somewhat different than what I would normally do.

[ljvankuiken]

The fingerings that many consider to be strange or unnatural are the fingerings Czerny chose not so much to develop the fingers but moreso to develop a technique for navigating the hands across the keyboard. The is why they are Etudes or Studies. It's frightening when I read teachers saying they are discarding Czerny's fingering in favor of the more natural fingerings you mentioned. It kind of misses the point.

[lelle]

I had a quick look around in these and don't see any weird fingerings. Do you have some examples?

[perfect_pitch]

User logged on to post his message, and hasn't been back since. I doubt you're going to get a response anytime... ever.

[j_tour]

User logged on to post his message, and hasn't been back since. I doubt you're going to get a response anytime... ever.

Well that really puts a crust on my pie:  I wanted to know exactly which Czerny fingerings were bad, so I could be appropriately humbled.