Carl Czerny

“His improvisating was most brilliant and striking,” wrote Carl Czerny, a pupil of Beethoven.

The World's Great Men of Music Brower, Harriette 1922

Carl Czerny was considered head of the piano profession.

The World's Great Men of Music Brower, Harriette 1922

Carl Czerny, the eminent pianist and teacher, died on July 15, at the age of sixty-six, at his birthplace, Vienna.

A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

"His improvisating was most brilliant and striking," wrote Carl Czerny, a pupil of Beethoven.

The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians Harriette Brower 1898

Carl Czerny was considered head of the piano profession.

The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians Harriette Brower 1898

He assented that he was a fellow-pupil of Liszt's under the beneficent, iron rule of Carl Czerny.

Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques James Huneker 1890

I, the undersigned, am glad to bear testimony to young Carl Czerny having made the most extraordinary progress on the pianoforte, far beyond what might be expected at the age of fourteen.

Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Vol. 1 of 2 Wallace, Lady 1866

He studied with Beethoven's pupil Carl Czerny many readers may, like Liszt, have practiced exercises from his "School of Velocity" for scarcely more than a year before being shuffled off to make his name in Paris.

NYT > Home Page By KENNETH HAMILTON 2011

I, the undersigned, am glad to bear testimony to young Carl Czerny having made the most extraordinary progress on the pianoforte, far beyond what might be expected at the age of fourteen.

Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1 Ludwig van Beethoven 1798

In fact, numbering the actual keys is actually just an extension associated with numbering the fingers, which was first done by Carl Czerny early in the actual 19th Century.

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