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    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 3 min

    Czerny Op 740 #42, 3 Versions

    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...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 3 min

    Czerny Op 740 #43, 5 Versions

    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...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 3 min

    Czerny Op 740 #44, 4 Versions

    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....
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 3 min

    Czerny Op 740 #45, 5 Versions

    The passionate rush of this gorgeously Mendelssohnian song without words makes it great Chaines and Pas de Couru music. You might even...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 740 #46, 2 Versions

    Several things recommend #46. There’s the division of labor between hands and the regularity of phrases and structure. It’s also...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 740 #47, 2 Versions

    The two textures of #47--the RH’s skittery-spidery 32nds, and the LH’s stolid stride--can each be projected with different characters...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 740 #48, 2 Versions

    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...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Czerny Op 740 #49, 3 Versions

    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)...
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    rudyapffelmusic
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 1 min

    Czerny Op 740 #50, 2 Versions

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