Czerny and Early Methodology

 

 

Czerny might be the most celebrated piano educator after Clementi and Beethoven. He devoted himself to write several valued piano pedagogy books on piano fundamentals and beginning of technical material. In addition, he successfully taught one of the most famous pianists Liszt in the 19^th century.

 

From his point of view, diligence and professional training is very important to a piano student, even though this student is very gifted. As one of Beethoven's students, he was taught to be faithful to the original edition which author made. That's why we are always asked to use Urtext edition by our teachers. And we don't reading music very carefully sometimes and make a lot of changes on the work. The lessons Czerny learned from Beethoven also warn us that we should be responsible to the music which author wrote.

 

After observing Clementi's teaching methods and Beethoven's technique fundamentals, Czerny developed his own methods to teach the students. Through his teaching methods, he made Liszt an awkward boy to a fabulous pianist in the 19^th century. However, looking insight his methods, I found nothing too much special. The points he focused on were rhythm, touch, fingering, musical phrasing, sight reading. He also mentioned it was important to make a good choice of piece and keep listening sensitivity.

 

Of course, the development of piano pedagogy in history didn't just rely on several pianists and teachers we are familiar with. In chapter 8, a lot of names were mentioned such as Turk, Dussek. Because of all of these people's efforts, the piano technique, methodology was keeping going.

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