Composers

Carl Czerny

Piano
Piano four hands
Violin
Cello
Orchestra
Viola
French horn
Flute
Double bass
String ensemble
Étude
Variation
Rondo
Fantasia
Sonata
Exercise
Rondinos
Dance
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10 Petits rondeaux, Op.316100 Progressive Studies, Op.139110 Progressive Excercises, Op.45312 Rondeaux amusans et instructifs, Op.58312 Rondeaux amusans sur des thêmes allemands et italiens, Op.61812 Rondinos faciles et doigtés sur des motifs favoris, Op.593125 Passagenübungen, Op.26114 Écossaises brillantes, Op.17415 Rondinos über beliebte Themas, Op.841160 Kurze Übungen, Op.82118 Petits rondeaux et variations sur des mélodies populaires allemandes, Op.60618 Rondeaux et variations sur des thêmes favoris, Op.4542 Duets, Op.512 Esquisses caractéristiques sur des thèmes de Bellini, Op.4832 Études pour la main gauche seule, Op.7352 Grandes fantaisies sur des motifs favoris de 'Norma', Op.6892 Grandes fantaisies sur les motifs de 'Guillaume Tell', Op.2212 Piano Sonatinas, Op.492 Piano Trios, Op.2112 Quatuors brillants, Op.2242 Rondeaux brillants sur 'La Part du Diable', Op.7422 Rondeaux élégants, Op.5972 Rondeaux on Themes from 'Le pré aux clercs', Op.3112 Sonatinas faciles et brillantes, Op.492 Sonatinas faciles et brillantes, Op.502 Thèmes originaux variés, Op.25820 Rondinos nach beliebten Motiven, Op.84424 Airs populaires en rondeaux, Op.60924 Études élégantes, Op.67224 National Airs, Op.45524 Piano Studies for the Left Hand, Op.71825 Fortschreitende Übungen für kleine Hände, Op.74828 Études mélodiques et harmoniques, Op.8193 Brillante Fantasien über 'Bäbu', Op.5403 Brillante Fantasien über Franz Schubert's Werken, Op.3393 Duets, Op.4613 Fantasie brillanti sull 'Parisina', Op.3273 Fantasie brillanti sull''Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo', Op.3283 Fugues, Op.313 Grand Allegros, Op.753 Grand Marches, Op.793 Rondeaux brillants sur des airs nationaux, Op.5203 Rondeaux faciles et brillans, Op.3743 Rondinos élégans sur des motifs favoris de Beethoven, Op.4583 Rondos caractéristiques sur 'Le domino noir', Op.5063 Sonatinas for Piano 4-Hands, Op.1563 Sonatines faciles et brillantes, Op.1043 Sonatines instructives, Op.3493 Studies3 Thèmes choisis de 'Robert le Diable', Op.2753 Thêmes favoris de l'opéra 'L'Estocq' variés, Op.3433 Violin Sonatinas, Op.39030 Études de mécanisme, Op.84932 Nouveaux exercices journaliers, Op.84840 Leichte Tonstücke, Op.80340 Tägliche Studien, Op.33750 Etudes de Velocité, Op.81850 Exercices progressifs dans tous les tons majeurs et mineurs, Op.84050 Grandi Studi di Perfezionamento, Op.40950 Übungsstücke für Anfänger, Op.48150 Vierhändige Übungsstücke, Op.2396 Divertissements en forme de rondeaux, Op.2886 Easy Sonatinas, Op.1636 Études de salon, Op.7546 Fantaisies brillantes sur des mélodies favorites, Op.7416 Galops en forme de Rondeaux, Op.3726 Grands potpourris brillants et concertants, Op.2126 Leichte Stücke, Op.8426 Oktavenstudien, Op.5536 Preludes and Fugues, Op.6036 Rondeaux brillants et faciles sur des motifs favoris, Op.7336 Rondeaux d'amusement, Op.2016 Rondeaux Instructifs et agréables, Op.5056 Rondeaux militaires, Op.6466 Sonatines faciles et doigtées, Op.41060 Pequenos Estudos8 Morceaux de salon, Op.7958 Nocturnes romantiques de différents caractères, Op.6048 Rondinos agréables et brillans, Op.4198 Scherzi capricciosi, Op.555

A

Album élégant des dames pianistes, Op.804Allegretto grazioso sopra 'Barbe-bleue', Op.69Allegretto in G majorAllegro en galopp, Op.267Amusement des jeunes amateurs, Op.825Andante cantabile in E-flat majorAndante e polacca in E majorAndante in C majorAndante und Rondo, Op.213

B

Beliebte Thema mit Variationen im brillanten Salon-Styl, Op.811Berühmte RondinosBriefe über den Unterricht auf dem Pianoforte

C

Cadenzen zu Ludwig van Beethovens Concerten, Op.315Capriccio à la fuga, Op.89Caprice brillant sur 'Les Huguenots', Op.424Charmant Variationen, Op.249Concerto for Piano Four-Hands and Orchestra, Op.153Czernyana

D

Das moderne Klavierspiel, Op.837Décaméron musical, Op.110Décaméron musical, Op.111Décaméron musical, Op.175Décaméron musical, Op.176Décaméron musical, Op.251Der Abend und die Nacht, Op.392Der kürzeste Weg zu Technik, Vortrag und RhythmusDer Pianist im klassischen style, Op.856Die Schule der linken Hand, Op.399Die Schule der Praktischen Tonsetz Kunst, Op.600Die Schule des Legato und Staccato, Op.335Die Schule des Vortrags und der Verzierungen, Op.575Die Vorschule der Fingerfertigkeit, Op.636Divertissement brillant et facile, Op.209Divertissement de concert, Op.204Divertissement militaire, Op.229

E

Eisenbahn Variationen, Op.431Erster Clavier-Unterricht in 100 Erholungen

F

Fantaisie à quatre mains, Op.226Fantaisie brillante sur des airs chinois, Op.724Fantaisie élégante, Op.197Fantaisie et Variations brillantes sur un Thême de Madame Malibran, Op.377Fantaisie et variations brillantes sur une romance de Blangini, Op.3Fantaisie et variations sur 'I puritani', Op.376Fantaisie sur des mélodies de Beethoven, Op.752Fantaisie sur 'La sonnambula'Fantaisie sur 'Mosè in Egitto', Op.504Fantaisie sur thèmes suisses et tyroliens, Op.162Fantasie brillante sur des airs irlandais, Op.468Fantasie brillante sur 'Le nozze di Figaro', Op.493Fantasie über 'Zar und Zimmermann', Op.549Fantasy on 3 Themes by Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven, Op.171Fantasy, Op.27

G

Galop brillant, Op.787Galoppe variée No.3, Op.193Gran capriccio di bravura ossa studio, Op.369Gran Capriccio, Op.172Grand Divertissement en forme de rondeau brillant, Op.122Grand Exercice de trilles en forme de rondeau brillant, Op.151Grand exercice en forme de fantaisie improvisée, Op.348Grand exercice, Op.245Grand Exercise, Op.364Grand Exercise, Op.82Grand rondeau brillant, Op.283Grand Rondeau, Op.405Grand Rondo No.1, Op.5Grande Polonaise brillante, Op.118Grande Polonaise brillante, Op.269Grande Serenade concertante, Op.126Grandes études caractéristiques, Op.692Grandes études de salon, Op.756Grandes variations brillantes sur un Thême favori de l’Opéra Montecchi e Capuleti, Op.285Grandes variations de concert sur un thême original, Op.338Grandes variations di bravura sur 'Fra Diavolo', Op.232Grosse Übung der Terzenläufe, Op.380

I

Impromptu brillant sur un motif à la Rossini, Op.205Impromptu brillant, Op.116Impromptu brillant, Op.222Impromptu Fugué, Op.776Impromptu or Variations on a Theme from 'Oberon', Op.134Impromptu sentimental sur 'O nume benefico', Op.523Impromptu sur 'Le lac des fées', Op.571Impromptu sur un thème favori de Paganini, Op.273Impromptu über den Walzer aus 'Zar und Zimmermann', Op.550Impromptus ou variations brillantes, Op.36In questa tomba oscuraIntroduction et grande polonaise brillante, Op.257Introduction et variations brillantes sur 'Gli arabi nelle Gallie', Op.234Introduction et variations brillantes sur 'Les Huguenots', Op.404Introduction et variations brillantes, Op.317Introduction et variations faciles sur une valse de Gallenberg, Op.87Introduction et variations sur "Sorte secondami", Op.21Introduction et variations sur 'La muette de Portici', Op.208Introduction et variations sur le 'Pas de trois favori', Op.219Introduction, Variationen und Finale über den beliebten Baierischen Volksgesang, Op.86Introduction, variations brillantes et rondeau de chasse, Op.202Introduction, variations et polonaise, Op.160Introduction, variations et presto finale sur 'Norma', Op.281Introduzione ed allegro agitato, Op.264Invitation à la danse, Op.482Ireland: 3 Popular Irish Airs

K

Kleine theoretisch-praktische Pianoforte-Schule für Anfänger, Op.584Krönungsmarsch, Op.101

L

La rivalité, Op.293L'Allegresse, Op.323Le coureur, Op.560Le Perfectionnement, Op.755Le petit pianiste, Op.823Le Souvenir, Op.4L'écho des Alpes Suisses, Op.429L'encouragement à l'étude, Op.684Les charmes de l'amitié, Op.55Les charmes de l'opéra, Op.401Les cinq doigts, Op.777Les elegantes, Op.333Les étrennes, Op.32Les fleurs des ornemens, Op.767Les plaisirs du salon, Op.498Les quatre saisons, Op.434Les trois Sœurs, Op.609L'Infatigable, Op.779

M

March in D minorMarcia funebre sulla morte di Luigi van Beethoven, Op.146Musikalische Theater-Bibliothek für die Jugend, Op.463

N

Neujahrgeschenk, Op.351Nocturne brillant sur 'Das waren mir selige Tage', Op.71Nocturne, Op.647NonetNouveau Gradus ad Parnassum, Op.822Nouvelle école de la main gauche, Op.861

P

Panorama beliebter Melodien aller Nationen, Op.729Piano Concerto No.1, Op.214Piano Concerto, Op.28Piano Quartet No.1, Op.148Piano Sonata No.1, Op.7Piano Sonata No.10, Op.268Piano Sonata No.11, Op.730Piano Sonata No.2, Op.13Piano Sonata No.3, Op.57Piano Sonata No.4, Op.65Piano Sonata No.5, Op.76Piano Sonata No.6, Op.124Piano Sonata No.7, Op.143Piano Sonata No.8, Op.144Piano Sonata No.9, Op.145Piano Trio No.2, Op.166Piano Trio No.3, Op.173Piano Trio No.4, Op.289Pianoforte-Schule, Op.500Polonaise brillante, Op.296Potpourri brilliant on Themes from Spohr’s Faust, Op.218Potpourri No.1, Op.38Practical Exercises for Beginners, Op.599Praktische Fingerübungen, Op.802Praktische Taktschule, Op.824Productions de salon, Op.625

Q

Quatuor concertant No.1, Op.230Quatuor concertant No.2, Op.816Quiet Thoughts

R

Réminiscences de Johann Strauss, Op.519Reminiscences de l'Opéra 'Le Lac des Fées', Op.574Romance, Op.70Rondeau brillant sur des Walses favorites de Jos. Lanner, Op.491Rondeau brillant sur la 'Marche du Mariage du Duc d'Orléans', Op.487Rondeau brillant, Op.806Rondeau brillante, Op.233Rondeau de chasse, Op.217Rondeau en valzer, Op.66Rondeau national allemand, Op.181Rondeau national anglois et eccossois, Op.182Rondeau national bohème, Op.183Rondeau national espagnol, Op.184Rondeau national francais, Op.185Rondeau passioné, Op.68Rondeau précédé d'une introduction, Op.265Rondeaux et sonatines faciles, instructives et doigtées, Op.158Rondino brillant sur le choeur 'A travers ces rochers', Op.570Rondino for Piano QuintetRondino No.1 on 'Cara attendimi', Op.22Rondino No.10 sur un motif de Mozart, Op.98Rondino No.17 sur 'La Muette de Portici', Op.198Rondino No.3 on Rossini's 'Armide', Op.30Rondino No.4 on a Favorite Air by Fesca, Op.39Rondino No.6 on an Original Theme, Op.42Rondo for Piano 4-Hands, Op.321Rondo in F major, Op.260Rondoletto scherzando, Op.53

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Scherzino alla Tarentella, Op.763Schule des Virtuosen, Op.365Sérénade vénitienne, Op.276Sonata for Piano Four-Hands, Op.10Sonata in the Style of Domenico Scarlatti, Op.788Sonate militaire et brillante, Op.119Sonate sentimentale for Piano 4 Hands, Op.120Sonatina in A major, Op.167Souvenir de Bellini, Op.386Souvenir de Boieldieu, Op.352Souvenir de Labitzky, Op.681Souvenir de mon premier voyage, Op.413Souvenir de Weber, Op.668Souvenir théâtral, Op.247Souvenirs du jeune âge, Op.306Studien zur praktischen Kenntniss aller Accorde des Generalbasses, Op.838StudienwerkeStudio generaleSymphony No.2, Op.781Systematische Anleitung zum Fantasieren auf dem Pianoforte, Op.200

T

Tableaux Mélodiques, Op.667The Art of Finger Dexterity, Op.740The Art of Preluding, Op.300The School of Embellishments, Op.355The School of Fugue Playing, Op.400The School of Velocity, Op.299Toccata, Op.92

V

Valse SentimentaleVariationen über einen beliebten Wiener-Walzer, Op.12Variations brillantes et non difficiles, Op.759Variations brillantes sur "Dépêchons, Travaillons" de l'opéra 'Le Maçon', Op.132Variations brillantes sur 'Hans Heiling', Op.341Variations brillantes sur la 'tirolienne favorite', Op.220Variations brillantes sur 'Robert le diable', Op.332Variations brillantes sur un thême Allemand favori, Op.123Variations brillantes sur un thême de l’opéra 'I Capuleti e i Montecchi', Op.295Variations brillantes sur un thême original, Op.292Variations brillantes, Op.14Variations concertantes, Op.1Variations de concert sur 'Le siège de Corinthe', Op.138Variations élégantes pour servir d'Ëtude, Op.706Variations in A major, Op.222aVariations on a March from Meyerbeer's 'Il crociato in Egitto'Variations on a theme by Rode, Op.33Variations on the Grenadier's March, Op.81Variations precédés d'une introduction sur 'La fiancée', Op.263Variations sur un thême original de La Bohème, Op.46Variations, Op.20Victoria Quadrille, Op.594

W

Wiener Pfennig-Magazin

É

Églantine ou rondeau brillant, Op.136

Ü

Übungen für die rechte Hand
Wikipedia
Carl Czerny (German: [ˈtʃɛɐ̯ni]; 21 February 1791 – 15 July 1857) was an Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin whose vast musical production amounted to over a thousand works. His books of studies for the piano are still widely used in piano teaching. He was one of Ludwig van Beethoven's numerous pupils.
Carl Czerny was born in Vienna (Leopoldstadt) and was baptized in St. Leopold parish. His parents were of Czech origin; his mother was Moravian. His parents spoke the Czech language with him. Czerny came from a musical family: his grandfather was a violinist at Nymburk, near Prague, and his father, Wenzel, was an oboist, organist and pianist. When Czerny was six months old, his father took a job as a piano teacher at a Polish manor and the family moved to Poland, where they lived until the third partition of Poland prompted the family to return to Vienna in 1795.
As a child prodigy, Czerny began playing piano at age three and composing at age seven. His first piano teacher was his father, who taught him mainly Bach, Haydn and Mozart. He began performing piano recitals in his parents' home. Czerny made his first public performance in 1800 playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor.
In 1801, Wenzel Krumpholz, a Czech composer and violinist, scheduled a presentation for Czerny at the home of Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven asked Czerny to play his Pathétique Sonata and Adelaide. Beethoven was impressed with the 10-year-old and accepted him as a pupil. Czerny remained under Beethoven's tutelage until 1804 and sporadically thereafter. He particularly admired Beethoven's facility at improvisation, his expertise at fingering, the rapidity of his scales and trills, and his restrained demeanour while performing.
Czerny's autobiography and letters give many important references and details of Beethoven during this period. Czerny was the first to report symptoms of Beethoven's deafness, several years before the matter became public. Of his first meeting with Beethoven, he wrote: "I also noticed with that visual quickness peculiar to children that he had cotton which seemed to have been steeped in a yellowish liquid, in his ears."
Czerny was selected by Beethoven for the premiere of the latter's Piano Concerto No. 1 in 1806 and, at the age of 21, in February 1812, Czerny gave the Vienna premiere of Beethoven's "Emperor" Piano Concerto. Czerny wrote that his musical memory enabled him to play all the Beethoven works by heart without exception and, during the years 1804–1805, he used to play these works in this manner at Prince Lichnowsky's palace once or twice a week, with the Prince calling out only the desired opus numbers. Czerny maintained a relationship with Beethoven throughout his life, and also gave piano lessons to Beethoven's nephew Carl.
At the age of fifteen, Czerny began a very successful teaching career. Basing his method on the teaching of Beethoven and Muzio Clementi, Czerny taught up to twelve lessons a day in the homes of Viennese nobility. His 'star' pupils included Theodor Döhler, Stephen Heller, Sigismond Thalberg, and Ninette de Belleville. In 1819, the father of Franz Liszt brought his son to Czerny, who recalled:
He was a pale, sickly-looking child, who, while playing, swayed about on the stool as if drunk...His playing was...irregular, untidy, confused, and...he threw his fingers quite arbitrarily all over the keyboard. But that notwithstanding, I was astonished at the talent Nature had bestowed upon him.
Liszt became Czerny's most famous pupil. He trained the child with the works of Beethoven, Clementi, Ignaz Moscheles and Johann Sebastian Bach. The Liszt family lived in the same street in Vienna as Czerny, who was so impressed by the boy that he taught him free of charge. Liszt was later to repay this confidence by introducing the music of Czerny at many of his Paris recitals. Shortly before Liszt's Vienna concert of 13 April 1823 (his final concert of that season), Czerny arranged, with some difficulty (as Beethoven increasingly disliked child prodigies) the introduction of Liszt to Beethoven. Beethoven was sufficiently impressed with the young Liszt to give him a kiss on the forehead. Liszt remained close to Czerny, and in 1852 his Études d'exécution transcendante were published with a dedication to Czerny.
Czerny left Vienna only to make trips to Italy, France (in 1837, when he was assisted by Liszt) and England. After 1840, Czerny devoted himself exclusively to composition. He wrote a large number of piano solo exercises for the development of the pianistic technique, designed to cover from the first lessons for children up to the needs of the most advanced virtuoso. (see List of compositions by Carl Czerny).
Czerny died in Vienna at the age of 66. He never married and had no near relatives. His large fortune he willed to charities (including an institution for the deaf), his housekeeper and the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna, after making provision for the performance of a Requiem mass in his memory.
Czerny composed a very large number of pieces (more than a thousand pieces and up to Op. 861).
Czerny's works include not only piano music (études, nocturnes, sonatas, opera theme arrangements and variations) but also masses and choral music, symphonies, concertos, songs, string quartets and other chamber music. The better known part of Czerny's repertoire is the large number of didactic piano pieces he wrote, such as The School of Velocity and The Art of Finger Dexterity. He was one of the first composers to use étude ("study") for a title. Czerny's body of works also include arrangements of many popular opera themes.
The majority of the pieces called by Czerny "serious music" (masses, choral music, quartets, orchestral and chamber music) remain in unpublished manuscript form and are held by Vienna's Society for the Friends of Music, to which Czerny (a childless bachelor) willed his estate.
Czerny's piano sonatas show themselves as an intermediate stage between the works of Beethoven and Liszt. They blend the traditional sonata form elements with baroque elements, such as the use of fugato, and free forms of fantasy. Recordings of these sonatas have been made by Martin Jones, Anton Kuerti and Daniel Blumenthal.
Czerny's piano nocturnes show some of the elements present in Chopin nocturnes, such as the rhythmic fluidity and the intimate character. Chopin met Czerny in Vienna in 1828 and may have been influenced by his nocturnes.
Czerny composed approximately 180 pieces that bear the title "Variations". Among them is La Ricordanza, Op 33, which Vladimir Horowitz recorded. Czerny used not only his own themes but themes from other composers as well, including Daniel Auber, Ludwig van Beethoven, Vincenzo Bellini, Anton Diabelli, Gaetano Donizetti, Joseph Haydn, Heinrich Marschner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Niccolò Paganini, Gioachino Rossini, Franz Schubert, Carl Maria von Weber and many others. These works range from solo piano pieces to piano pieces for four, six, and eight hands, with some variations having optional accompaniment of orchestra or string quartet. Czerny sometimes combined his variations with other genres, such as fantasy, rondo, or impromptu.
Czerny was one of 50 composers who wrote a Variation on a theme of Anton Diabelli for Part II of the Vaterländischer Künstlerverein (published 1824). He also wrote a coda to round out the collection. Part I was devoted to the 33 variations supplied by Beethoven, his Diabelli Variations, Op. 120. Together with Liszt, Chopin, Henri Herz, Johann Peter Pixis and Sigismond Thalberg, Czerny was a contributor to the compendium set of variations for piano, Hexameron (1837).
The seven symphonies of Czerny began to be recorded in 1990s. In the 21st century, two new symphonies came to light (Symphony No. 6 and a large Symphony written in 1814); also two overtures (in C Minor and E Major) and some symphonic choral music (Psalm 130 and "Die Macht des Gesanges").
Czerny was a prolific composer of chamber music, normally including the piano: Trios for strings and Piano, Quintets for strings and Piano, Sonatas for Violin and Piano, and also Piano Variations with Flute, Horn, and other instruments. However, there are many works without piano, including string quartets.
Czerny, a devout Catholic, also composed many religious pieces. These works include a number of Masses and hymns.
In 1842 Czerny published an autobiographical sketch, "Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben" ("Memories from My Life"). Other works by Czerny, apart from his compositions, include: his edition of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier; "Letters to a young lady, on the art of playing the pianoforte" ; his "School of Practical Composition" (published as his Op. 600); his edition of Domenico Scarlatti's sonatas (1840); and "On the proper performance of all Beethoven's works for piano" (1846).
Czerny can be considered as a father of modern piano technique for generations of pianists, when it is taken into account that many of his students, such as Theodor Leschetizky, Franz Liszt and Theodor Kullak, also became teachers and passed on his legacy. The US music magazine The Etude presented in its issue of April 1927 an illustration (see above) showing how Czerny could be considered the father of modern piano technique and the basis of an entire generation of pianists. This list can be extended to the present day: examples of 'descent' are:
Czerny wrote an essay on the correct performing of the piano sonatas of Beethoven, "On the Proper performance of all Beethoven's works for piano" (1846). Johannes Brahms wrote about it to Clara Schumann in a letter of March 1878: "I certainly think Czerny's large pianoforte course Op. 500 is worthy of study, particularly in regard to what he says about Beethoven and the performance of his works, for he was a diligent and attentive pupil ... Czerny's fingering is particularly worthy for attention. In fact I think that people today ought to have more respect for this excellent man" In a letter written to Otto Jahn of 30 October 1852, Liszt wrote: "In the twenties, when a great portion of Beethoven's creations was a kind of Sphinx, Czerny was playing Beethoven exclusively, with an understanding as excellent as his technique was efficient and effective; and, later on, he did not set himself up against some progress that had been made in technique, but contributed materially to it by his own teaching and works."
Czerny had an influential role in defining the canon of classical piano repertoire. Volume 4 (1847) of his Theoretico-Practical Piano School listed what he considered to be the most important piano works of the previous eighty years, including works of Mozart, Clementi, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and works of his own.
From Czerny's death until the end of the 20th century, negative views about his work have predominated. Robert Schumann in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Musical Gazette), said of Czerny's op. 424: "It would be difficult to find a failure of imagination greater than that of Czerny."
Liszt included several Czerny compositions in his repertoire and also dedicated his twelve Transcendental Études to Czerny. He also collaborated with Czerny on the Hexaméron. But even Liszt suggested, in an 1852 letter to Otto Jahn: "It is ... a pity that, by a too super-abundant productiveness, he has necessarily weakened himself, and has not gone on further on the road of his first Sonata (Op. 7, A-flat major) and of other works of that period, which I rate very highly, as compositions of importance, beautifully formed and having the noblest tendency." In "Men, Women and Pianos" Arthur Loesser describes Czerny's music as "without depth, intensity, or wit, but always smooth and pretty and rather ear-tickling when played fast ... endless variety of patterns and endless monotony of import."
More positive views have been offered by musicians such as Anton Kuerti, Brahms, and Leon Botstein. Igor Stravinsky wrote about his admiration for Czerny also as a composer: "As to Czerny, I have been appreciating the full-blooded musician in him more than the remarkable pedagogue."