Czerny Piano Elementary Exercises: Op. 139

Author: Carl Czerny
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Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Features: From Czerny 599 to Czerny 740, the name of music educator Carl Czerny accompanies piano students through nearly a decade of their piano learning journey. Carl Czerny (1791–1857) was born in Vienna, Austria, and began learning the piano under his father's tutelage before later studying with Beethoven. He devoted himself to researching the piano teaching methods of his predecessors and became a renowned piano teacher at the age of 15. From 1816 to 1823, he frequently held student recitals at his home, and Beethoven would come to give guidance. Throughout his life, Czerny composed a vast number of piano etudes, which, after long-term practical testing, have become compulsory teaching materials in piano education. Czerny's etudes inherit the traditional rules of classical composers while also embodying the spirit of Romanticism. At the same time, his etudes are highly effective in training finger flexibility and independence. Moreover, Czerny's etudes are full of musicality, featuring lyrical adagios, expressive legato passages, exercises in crescendo and diminuendo, and even beautiful ornamental sections. Czerny's etudes remain widely adopted as "standard textbooks" in music conservatories around the world. This book is a collection of etudes that lies between Czerny's Piano Preliminary Exercises, Op. 599 and Czerny's Piano School of Velocity, Op. 849. It includes 100 piano etudes, covering a variety of technical training topics.