In Chopin’s lifetime, he totally wrote twenty seven fabulous piano etudes (three of them were without opus numbers) which were abstruse piano playing technique and valuable artistry. For most pianists, it is not an easy work to deal with these pieces well since they require the pianist to grasp the exquisite piano playing technique. How do we train our fingers more flexible to apply to these works? After all most pianists are not talented as Horowitz, so we have to go through some tough practice and the best way is practicing Czerny’s piano etudes.
1Carl Czerny was a great composer and piano teacher whom lived in the Biedermeier period which was the late Classical Period and the early Romantic Period. As Beethoven’s apprentice, he not only inherited to his student, Franz Liszt-another great pianist and composer whom lived in the Romantic Period-well theoretical music education, also nurtured him with exquisite piano playing technique. In his whole life, 2he composed more than eight hundred piano etudes for students’ to practice in any kinds of piano studying stages. But not all etudes were required to be played by us because not all of them were effective for us. (Piano technique, Walter Gieseking, page 50)In this paper, I will select some Chopin etudes to research, and then research how to use the Czerny’s advanced etudes to prepare to play them. Among of all the Czerny’s piano etudes, the Opus 740 was the most difficult one, and from the artistry aspect, it was the one which most closed to Chopin’s etudes.
Chopin’s etudes were divided into two parts, the first part was twelve pieces with opus number ten, and the other twelve works was with opus twenty five. 3Chopin wrote the first part of etudes which dedicated to Liszt during 1...
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... really demanded us to spend a lot of time to practice, since these etudes were so prominent in the development of piano history that we must experience them very carefully.
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1Zaluski, Iwo and Pamela Zaluski. “Carl Czerny: Composer of the Biedermeier Age.” Contemporary Review, vol. 281, issue 1642 (Nov. 2002): 301.
2Zaluski, Iwo and Pamela Zaluski. “Carl Czerny: Composer of the Biedermeier Age.” Contemporary Review, vol. 281, issue 1642 (Nov. 2002): 303.
3Huneker, James. “The Studies: Titanic Experiments.” in Chopin: the man and his music (New York: Dover Publications, c1966), 81.
4Lederer, Victor. “Big Ideas in Small Packages: The Etudes and Preludes.” in Chopin: a listener’s guide to the master of the piano (Pompton Plains, N.J.: Amadeus Press, 2006),
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Chopin wrote two collections of twelve Études (Op 10, Op 25) and they are very different to the piano studies of composers from Clementi to Kalkbrenner, which had gone before. The nature of Chopin's Études is the same as that of other composers in that individual pieces are devised to deal with a specific technical difficulty, but Chopin transformed them into pieces of music which had real feeling and depth.
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Franz Liszt is said to be the most astounding piano virtuosos that existed during the Romantic era. This essay will discuss his achievements as a pianist as well as a composer. This essay will examine his life and will examine what influenced him at an early age. It will also look at his accomplishments as a pianist as well as a composer and examine how he became as well known as he is today. It will use his background to show what exactly influenced him to become a successful pianist and composer and it will discuss how essential he was during the Romantic era.