Carl Czerny: 'Impromptù Passionné' (from, "Six Etudes, ou Amusement de Salon," Op.754, No.6)
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- 'Carl Czerny' by Valse Mélancolique
21 February 1791 - 15 July 1857
After Czerny sight-read Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata from manuscript in the Composer’s presence at age 16, Beethoven considered his newly acquired student whom he saw several times each week an equal. Thereafter, he taught Liszt, age 8, free of Tuition, several times a week in the evenings after composing his Opus 1 - 8, which Liszt was to have surely heard his Piano First Sonata - This is why the Transcendental Etudes are dedicated to him.
After Mozart and Beethoven, but before Chopin and Liszt, there was only Carl Czerny. By comparison with his Contemporaries like Clementi, Hummel, Kalkbrenner, Thalberg, Chopin, Mozskowski, Schumann, even his own student Liszt, and anybody else alive before the year of 1850, their music and output quickly becomes negligible, basic, lacking ‘Bravura’ ‘Force’ or Beethovian ‘Heart’, and most aspects of Compositional-Form, especially the English-Composers. This man is more misunderstood than fellow Composer-Pianist Charles Valentin-Alkan, who is still undergoing a somewhat controversial Renaissance with newly recorded pieces and unempathetic tendencies towards his moving-melodies. The amount of music he wrote is genuinely impressive, memorable, and the number of unique-melodies he came up with is probably not matched by even Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi, or Schubert (with consideration of his short-life, Czerny still wrote more music than Schubert per day/week/year, who was a filthy drunk that crashed at everybody’s pad). He did this incessantly for 20-years straight, all while teaching an average of 12-students for 12-hours each day - He never married and when he died he donated everything to charity, including a School for the Blind. While he was alive, his Publisher’s printed all his music without question of the content. Czerny’s complete works are still being found (Opus 187, Rondo on Italian Airs, exists in only one-copy, 13-downloads on IMSLP, 16-mins long, absolutely crazy-work, MIDI on MuseScore) The only ‘Complete’ recordings are done by multiple-pianist collaborations, MIDI’s, or manipulation using technology - and these are only of the mass-produced, overtly-Communized Opuses that the Chinese have made famous - most recordings are 40-years old 33rpm records or Chinese CCTV. None of his important works have been studied, explored, or recorded by any ‘Concert-Pianist’ or ‘Competition-Winners’ - Some are only now on the cusp of 2024 starting to record some basic-Alkan works. It seems only Sorabji possibly wrote more piano music than this guy...
Are the Chinese to blame for the Communization of Czerny's Music?
The Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci (1552 - 1610) arrived in Beijing in 1600 during the Ming and Qing dynasties and presented several musical instruments, including clavichords, to the Wanli emperor. The first piano store, the Moutrie Piano Company, was established by the British in 1850 in Shanghai. Four Chinese musicians, including Shutong Li (1880 - 1942) and Xingong Shen (1870 - 1947), went to study the piano in Japan and brought back a few piano training materials such as: Beyer's Elementary Method for the Piano, Op. 101, the Hanon Études, and exclusively only Czerny Études Opus 299, 599, 740, and a few Others. Thereafter, these materials became the standard textbooks for Chinese piano students. With the banning of Western-Music, these Etudes became the only thing known of Czerny - It would be years before some students even knew he was the teacher of Liszt, thus producing a completely detached understanding of his placement in Musical-History and a complete lack of knowledge of his non-instructional works.
John Field, famous composer of less than twenty Nocturnes, lived his life with full of doubt and misunderstandings about Czerny and his superior musicianship. He was convinced that Czerny pre-fabricated every single one of his passages as a cookbook. Surely after reading through a singular Opus like 804, which already contains more pieces than Field is known for (twenty-four) is One-Example of Czerny’s Nocturnes, like ‘Malvina’ (no.4) which I have recorded, he realized what a failure he was both in Techniques and Melodics, but also Composition.
According to Arthur Rubinstein’s memoirs, Stravinsky was obsessed with Carl Czerny’s Etudes while writing/revising this late work (Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra). Rubinstein could not understand his fascination, but Stravinsky swore that his technique and Composition was improving from daily study of Czerny etudes (which of the 1,000 pieces he studied is never mentioned) After knowing this, Czerny’s great influence can be seen in this work in certain passages, and also a movement back towards his form of Fundamental-Classicism (like his Symphony in Three-Movements) Wikipedia claims his influence to be Carl Maria von Weber - I strongly disagree.
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Czerny is more underrated and misunderstood than Sorabji or Alkan. I am still waiting to experience a Complete Edition listening or something at least close - 100CDs would suffice even if incomplete - A Bach/Mozart/Liszt Complete Edition is already 100+CDs. I understand Walmart and Target have stopped selling discs in favor of long-playing records - which is pathetic because the time standard for an album is 80-minutes, not an LP barely making 50-minutes both sides. Why are we going back in time and engraining the 4-min now 2-minute song-standard? Anyways, digital-people do not have a ‘feel’ for how much space/data music takes up. Listening to a CD is virtually the only way to listen to any music on-demand and then not have to be interrupted because every device is now connected to your toilet, refrigerator, door-bell, and vacuum.
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great piece and playing 🎴
Thanks for listening
Too slow lacking of the score nuances.
@@HarDiMonPetit You’ve had 12-years to post a video on your account so your opinion means nothing. My playing has more nuances than all other recordings of this piece on RUclips. Additional, its obvious you click videos without studying the score yourself and expect the same recording - That’s why everything about my performance is so appalling to you - Maybe listen longer instead of becoming turned off and disgusted with everything happening in your life without analyzing the antecedents flat in front of your face - I accept PayPal for psychiatric payments evaluations - Your’s costs extra