On the proper performance of all Beethoven's works for the piano ; Reminiscences of Beethoven, and, chapters II and III from volume IV of the Complete theoretical and practical piano forte school : op. 500 / Carl Czerny ; edited and with a commentary by Paul Badura-Skoda.

Author/creator Czerny, Carl
Other author Badura-Skoda, Paul, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoWien : Universal Edition, ©1970.
Description119 pages : music, portrait ; 31 cm
Subjects

Contents Memoirs (excerpts) -- Anecdotes and notes about Beethoven -- From The art of playing the ancient and modern piano forte works. On the proper performance of all Beethoven's works for the piano solo ; On the proper performance of all Beethoven's works for the pianoforte with accompaniments for other instruments, or for the orchestra.
Abstract It is one of music history's fortunate coincidences that Beethoven's pupil the author was one of the greatest piano pedagogues. At a time when Beethoven's works were hardly cultivated any more, fashion having taken other directions, the author did much to ensure that the Beethoven tradition did not die out. He taught his pupils (among them the young Franz Liszt) to play Beethoven's works; he arranged private concerts devoted exclusively to those works; and he made excellent two and four-hand piano transcriptions, some of them under Beethoven's supervision, of orchestral and chamber works, which were widely circulated in that form. Apart from these activities, which were more for the benefit of his contemporaries, the author produced three documents concerning his personal relations with Beethoven; for posterity, they are of the greatest importance. They are his memoirs and various other writings in which he tells of his encounters with Beethoven; an edition of all Beethoven's sonatas and other piano pieces, with metronome markings and fingerings; and, most important, the chapter "On the proper performance of all Beethoven's works for the piano solo" and "for the pianoforte with accompaniments for other instruments" in vol. IV of his "School for the Piano, Op.500", in which he discusses, briefly and to the point, the interpretation of the master's complete piano works including chamber music with piano, and the piano concertos.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 73208687
Publisher numberUE 13340 E Universal Edition

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