60 Piano Exercises

Author: Hans von Buelow
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This collection of etudes may be a repetition of some widely recognized or talked-about things, but its purpose is not to meticulously recognize and appreciate the precious value and importance of J.B. Crampton's piano etudes, which remain unmatched to this day. Except for Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum, pianists have yet to discover any work comparable to it in terms of technical training and interpretation of works, and Crampton's Piano Etudes are suitable as preparatory exercises for it. If the highly authoritative musician from the Latin nation, Fetis, called it "renowned musical works," then his German counterparts, Franz Brendel and C.F. Wittmann, praised it in their History of Music as "laying the foundation for all etudes, with epoch-making significance," and in History of Piano Performance as "belonging to the 'classical literature' of the piano in terms of content and form." The consistent views of these renowned musicians strongly prove the importance of this work, which is so widely circulated and deeply rooted, and now it is presented to the public in a completely new, pedagogically instructive form.