Carl Czerny is read about 354 times a day, in 48 languages.
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Something wrong?Piano students curse his name over drill exercises, but Czerny bridged Beethoven and Liszt - taught by one, teacher to the other - and left over a thousand works few now play.
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Born 21 February 1791 in Austria to a Czech family, Czerny became a pupil of Beethoven and absorbed the late Classical style at its source. He built a career as a composer and pedagogue, eventually taking on a young Franz Liszt and shaping the next generation's virtuosity. His output topped a thousand works spanning the Classical and early Romantic eras, but what endures are the books of piano studies - methodical, relentless exercises that still populate lesson plans worldwide. He died 15 July 1857, remembered less for the music he wrote than for the fingers he trained.
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