CHERNI Karl (Czern Karl)

(1791-1857)
Born February 20, 1791 in Vienna. He began to study music at the age of 5 years under the guidance of his father, renowned educator and a highly educated musician. Karl has not yet turned 9 years old when he began speaking publicly. In 1800, Beethoven, heard the boy's game, offered to give him lessons, classes continued intermittently for over 10 years. During this period, Czerny also worked at I. Hummel, and M. Clementi.
Beethoven entrusted Czerny first performance in Vienna of his Third Piano Concerto. Despite such encouraging recognition of his pianistic talent, Czerny soon ceased concert performances, and after 1815 devoted himself entirely to composition pedagogy and.

Czerny was an only child and never married. As a teacher he had no equal. Among the famous virtuosi of the first half of the 19. difficult to find a pianist who has not passed a school Czerny. The greatest of the disciples was Czerny F. Liszt.

The most valuable thing in his musical heritage - teaching composition. Czerny wrote almost all musical genres: he - by masses, requiem, symphonies, concertos, chamber works, songs, and many concert pieces for piano. The total number of its opuses close to a thousand, with many compositions contain up to fifty or more rooms. He also wrote a textbook composition Complete theoretical and practical teaching of composition (Vollstndige theoretisch-praktische Kompositionslehre, 1849), Essay on the history of music (Umriss der ganzen Musik-Geschichte, 1851) and memoirs.

Although the bulk of this great heritage has remained unclaimed, such manifestations of pedagogical genius Czerny as Daily exercise (40 tgliche Studien, op. 337), Big piano school (Grosse Pianoforte-Schule, op. 500), School of fluency (Schule der Gelufigkeit, op. 299), School of fluency fingers (Schule der Fingerfertigkeit, op. 740), will remain forever invaluable material for pianists and piano teachers, showing ways to solve technical problems that arise in the learning process.

Since 1850 health Czerny deteriorated, but he stopped his musical activity, only a few weeks before his death, which followed in Vienna on July 15, 1857.