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The first English-language book on Czerny, and the broadest survey
of his activity in any language. Within the history of European
music, Carl Czerny (1791-1857) is simultaneously all too familiar
and virtually invisible. During his lifetime, he was a highly
successful composer of popular piano music, and his pedagogical
works remain fundamental to the training of pianists. But Czerny's
reputation in these areas has obscured the remarkable breadth of
his activity, and especially his work as a composer of serious
music, which recent performances and recordings have shown to hold
real musical interest. Beyond "The Art of Finger Dexterity"
explores Czerny's multifaceted career and its legacy and provides
the first broad assessment of his work as a composer. Prominent
North American and European musicians and scholars explore topics
including Czerny's life and its context; his autobiographical
writings and efforts to promote his teacher, Beethoven; his
activity as a pedagogue, both as teacher of Liszt and as the
authority held up to innumerable amateur women pianists; his role
in shaping performance traditions of classical music; the
development of his image during and after his lifetime; and his
work in genres including the Mass, the symphony, the string
quartet, and the piano fantasy. This is the first English-language
book on Czerny, and the broadest survey of his activity in any
language. Contributors: George Barth, Otto Biba, Attilio Bottegal,
Deanna C. Davis, James Deaville, Ingrid Fuchs, David Gramit, Alice
M. Hanson, Anton Kuerti, Marie Sumner Lott, James Parakilas,
Michael Saffle, Franz A. J. Szabo, Douglas Townsend, and John
Wiebe. DavidGramit [University of Alberta] is the author of
Cultivating Music: The Aspirations, Interests, and Limits of German
Musical Culture, 1770-1848.
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