"When I was barely ten I was already able to play cleanly and fluently nearly everything by Mozart, Clementi, and the other piano composers of the time; owing to my excellent musical memory I mostly performed without the music" (p. 103).
WELL. Decipher THAT rhetoric. Still alive and already overcompensating. Ahh Czerny, why do we all hate you so? Even Gerig couldn't hold back the quote, " ...but the good was produced with the bad- and the bad tended to dominate" (p.107). Schumann agreed: "... Had I enemies, I would, in order to destroy them, force them to listen to nothing but music such as this..."(p. 107).
So how did he make the book? Why hasn't everyone BURNED the "School of Velocity"etudes? Liszt. That's why. So he had some insights, and he was a great teacher, blah blah blah. He still hated children.
The highlight of the chapter:
"From this historical sketch, the reflecting Pianist will easily perceive that the works of each Composer must be executed in the style in which he wrote; and that the performer will assuredly fail, if he attempts to play all the works of the Masters above named in the self-same style" (p. 118). So let's all play harpsichords and learn to dance the allemande and shut up already.
See Beethoven article below for real composer.
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