Czerny Op 335 #46, 4 Versions
This study is fascinating to read, to hear and (eventually) to play at top speed. Divided between the hands, Czerny’s elaborately varied...
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- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
Czerny Op 335 #47, 3 Versions
Czerny wrote many studies, large and small, training repeated note technique in the RH. I use several from different opus #’s for class,...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
Czerny Op 335 #48, 2 Versions
I’m not deeply read in music history or musicology, so I don’t know whether there is somewhere a study of the development of fioriture in...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
Czerny op 335 #49, 2 Versions
As ever, a tempo considerably under Czerny’s metronome marking presents the music of #49 very effectively for ballet class. I suggest the...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
Czerny op 355 #50, 3 Versions
This is a wonderful piece to have in your repertory for private practice; the 1st 8 measures of the B section as written make a short,...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
Czerny Op 335 #19, 3 Versions
Many of Op 335’s staccato studies are in 2/4 with RH melodic material in dotted 16ths and LH accompaniment in simple 8th-note stride. All...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
Czerny Op 335 #20, 2 Versions
Riisager placed this beautiful study at the heart of Etudes. His arrangement of #20 is the longest single number in the ballet (#4,...
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- Jan 31, 2021
- 1 min
Czerny Op 335 #21, Single Version
By all means, learn both hands of this short rollicking unison study, but I think that a shortcut arrangement will actually work better...
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- Jan 31, 2021
- 1 min
Czerny Op 335 #22, Single Version
The chief musical feature of this slight but interesting piece is cantabile multi-voice chords with a thin, spare accompaniment in 8va...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
Czerny Op 335 #23, 2 Versions
For me the first 20 measures of #23 are among the loveliest inspirations of Op 335. The grave sweetness of the theme of the first four...
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- Jan 31, 2021
- 1 min
Czerny Op 335 #24, Single Version
Czerny’s tempo and dotted rhythm make this an amiable walking song, and I wouldn’t want to play it any other way for ballet class. The...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
Czerny Op 335 #25, 3 Versions
Czerny has a knack for “in the Italian Style” of his time--specifically the rhythmic, if not melodic, styles of Donnizetti, Bellini and...
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- Jan 31, 2021
- 1 min
Czerny Op 335 #26, Single Version
This brief, bravura flourish doesn’t have a lot to recommend itself for inclusion in an accompanist’s repertory. I think Czerny presents...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
Czerny op 335 #27, 2 Versions
I find this one of the most charming studies in the collection. It embodies everything I’ve come to love about Czerny the composer. The...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
Czerny Op 335 #28, 3 versions
Chorales, anthems, hymns can all be very useful in your repertory. You can play them slowly and softly for adagio, for pas marche across...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
Czerny Op 335 #29, 3 Versions
This study is nearly ready-made for your repertory, and, as usual, will sound better and be much more useful when played slower. There’s...
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- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
Czerny Op 335 #30, 2 Versions
The fugal opening of this compact study will be familiar from #23: a stepwise climbing bass under a 2-voice subject in the tonic followed...
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- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
Czerny op 335 #31, 2 Versions
This nocturne is much closer in style to Chopin than to Czerny’s 10-year-older contemporary John Field, but it’s the John Field formula:...
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- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
Czerny Op 335 #32, 2 Versions
Czerny’s #32 is, like #31, a form most of us know best as epitomized by Chopin. Just as there had been nocturnes before John Field and...
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rudyapffelmusic
- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
Czerny Op 335 #33, 2 Versions
The jolly four-square tune of Czerny’s #33 (mm 1-32) is effective for ballet class at many tempos, though the slower you play it the more...
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