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Czerny, Finger Exercises and Piano Lessons

Czerny created an original method of piano practice, incorporating many didactic piano pieces named "Etudes", which he wrote for piano practice of his students. When practicing Czerny, ne work on developing the hand and general playing mechanism for strength, stamina, and perhaps most important.
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Mastering piano technique and keyboard precision precedes artistic expression of the music. Czerny's exercises are still among the finest techniques.

Carl Czerny was tutored by Beethoven and by age 16 was musically accomplished enough to attract a following of his own students. His performances were considered fluid and brilliant.

As a composer, Czerny turned out a thousand opus numbers (some containing more than fifty pieces, such as Op. 749 – The Art of Finger Dexterity and Op. 299 - School of Velocity), while maintaining ten to twelve hour teaching days. He could work on five or six pieces simultaneously. He wrote in many forms, but is renowned for his etudes, which have been the foundation of piano technique lessons for generations of students. Czerny wrote literally thousands of technical studies for piano, all different. Indeed, he developed the world’s first piano pedagogy.

Czerny created an original method of piano practice, incorporating many didactic piano pieces named "Etudes", which he wrote for piano practice of his students. His method is focused on finger dexterity and velocity, as well as on the sound control and expressiveness.

In addition to his etudes, Czerny composed no fewer than 304 sets of variations and potpourris, based on 87 operas of the time. These works were highly popular all over the world. According to Loesser, “His talent was extraordinary. Within the limits of a narrow harmonic scheme, he developed a prodigious understanding of the motion shapes feasible to keyboard-traveling fingers. Rapid, feathery, well-articulated pianistic passagework, chiefly for the right hand, bouncing, leather-covered little hammer-heads of the Vienna pianos could deliver best, always smooth and pretty and rather ear-tickling when played fast.”

He was well-known for his superb teaching methods, and tutored Franz Listz and Sigismond Thalberg, among others. “His manner of teaching,” Leschetizky related, "Indicated the different shades of tempo and coloring. He insisted principally on accuracy, brilliancy and pianistic effects. Czerny taught that Beethoven should be rendered with freedom of delivery and depth of feeling. A pedantic, inelastic interpretation of the master made him wild. He felt that Chopin’s compositions were sweetish. He understood Mendelssohn.”

When practicing Czerny, work on developing the hand and general playing mechanism for strength, stamina, and perhaps most importantly, control.

About New Jersey Piano Lessons

Barbara Ehrlich is a Somerset County private piano teacher based in Bedminster, NJ with a roster of current young piano students that includes a broad array of student ages, cultures and backgrounds. The newly formed New Jersey Piano Lessons works closely with parents to oversee and coordinate music activities in a variety of areas, including piano lessons, practice, theory and sight-reading. Visit New Jrsey Piano Lessons at http://www.piano-nj.com/mission-barbara.html for more information about playing the piano in Somerset County.

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Barbara Ehrlich has played classical piano since 1962. One mission of Barbara Ehrlich is to foster musical abilities by teaching others how to play piano in New Jersey. What makes her unique is that she approaches playing piano taking technique and ear training as starting points. Her underlying philosophy is that although one can approach the study of playing piano from the viewpoints of the history of music, the philosophy of science, the fields of literature, or technology, the essence of musicianship lies in developing artistic sensitivity.

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