There’s a lot to recommend #42 to a ballet accompanist. If you fill out Czerny’s LH with a light waltz accompaniment it makes a solid...

I can get Czerny’s arpeggiation up to around the quarter @90, and mm 1-16 with repeats make a lovely short Adagio (2 sets of 8 on each...

I love the sparkle of Czerny’s note pattern here, and the music remains quite effective with the metronome at 100 rather than his 120....

The passionate rush of this gorgeously Mendelssohnian song without words makes it great Chaines and Pas de Couru music. You might even...

Several things recommend #46. There’s the division of labor between hands and the regularity of phrases and structure. It’s also...

The two textures of #47--the RH’s skittery-spidery 32nds, and the LH’s stolid stride--can each be projected with different characters...

This is another of the studies that I think of as “gestural” as opposed to “textural.” Other clear examples are #13 and #26, and in my...

I loved this study from the first time I played through it. The simple scalar material is very easy to read (and I’m not a sight reader)...

At a tempo well under Czerny’s, this dark surging arpeggio study makes excellent Grands Battements music, and working it up for ballet...

I can almost reach Czerny’s tempo (using his fingering and keeping my RH fixed but relaxed in position close to the keyboard), but as is...

My arrangements of #30 have the principle aim of shortening and simplifying Czerny’s study to make it more easily mastered, effective in...

This is one of those studies whose bottom-line recommendation is the workout for both hands and a regular phrase structure that makes for...

Don’t take the repeat at m 8, insert a bar between m 15 and m 16, fashion a grand cadence at Czerny’s m 31, and #32 neatly resolves into...

This is another of those graceful, tuneful studies that make me think of Czerny as the Bournonville of the piano. In keeping with his...

I think if you’re not careful you can injure yourself trying to get #34 to Czerny’s metronome marking, and the very slight music makes...

I like this study not for its music but for its technique. Changing fingers on repeated notes in both hands is good for warming up and of...

On the page #36 certainly looks like a barcarolle, but Czerny’s tempo is much faster than the typical19th Century “boat music.” If you...

I loved working on this study and getting it into my class repertory. It lies well in my hands and it’s always very exciting in class....

Part of the charm of this powerful toccata is the in-and-out-of focus meter, but, while there are a number of shortcuts and...

This study will work for ballet class across a wide range of tempos slower than Czerny’s, but I find it sounds sluggish unless I project...