cherny's piano finger etudes op. 74: about the author: Karl czerny (1791.2.21-1857.7.15) is a famous Austrian pianist, composer and music educator, who was born more than 2 years ago. Today, we only know that he wrote countless piano etudes for teaching, which have been the basic technical training materials for piano students for more than a century. Most people remember Cherny as a dry old man with boring skills and poor music, but people don't know that he was Beethoven's most proud student. Beethoven taught him piano for three years for free, and he was an enthusiastic propagandist of Beethoven's works. He would recite all Beethoven's piano works, many of which were personally instructed by the author. His 5 works are called A Complete Collection of Piano Theory and Performance, in which the second and third chapters of Volume 4 are about how to correctly play Beethoven's piano wounds. This is a first-hand information and reference book on correctly playing Beethoven's works, but unfortunately there is no Chinese translation yet. Cherny is also Liszt's teacher who attended Titzky's class. He taught Liszt to play the piano for free. Liszt admitted that Cherny taught me everything. Cherny is Liszt's only teacher. Titzki is the leader of modern piano playing school, and his students include Padlevski, Schnabel, Friedrich, Moiseiwitsch, etc. Someone asked Titzky what his teaching characteristics were, and he replied: I will teach as Cherny taught me. He described the characteristics of Ernie's teaching as follows: he is like a band conductor, he stands and teaches, pointing out various changes in speed and color with gestures. Cherny adheres to the principles of correctness, brilliance and piano effect. Beethoven taught by Cherny is free in performance and profound in emotion, and it annoys him to play Beethoven rigidly and inflexibly. Cherny, Austrian piano educator and composer. Born in Vienna on February 21st, 1791, he died in Vienna on July 15th, 1857. He first studied piano with his father, and from 18 to 183 he took Beethoven as his teacher. At the same time, he was influenced by hummel and clementi and studied their piano teaching methods.

He has been a highly praised piano teacher since he was 15 years old. Among his students, many famous artists have appeared, including the Hungarian pianist Liszt, who is known as the "king of piano". Cherny's piano playing follows the principle of Romanticism, playing expressive and beautiful music like a song with Legato, paying attention to the effects of gradually strengthening and weakening, emphasizing the development of fingering technology, and giving wrist movements some freedom. It can be said that Cherny devoted his life to music education and achieved brilliant results.

As a composer, Cherny has published more than 1, works, including symphonies, concertos, quartets, choruses, songs and so on, in addition to piano etudes for teaching. Cherny was the founder of the Vienna Piano School in the first half of the 19th century, and he is famous for his numerous piano etudes, such as Preliminary Piano Course (Op. 599), Smooth Piano Etudes (Op. 849), Quick Piano Etudes (Op. 299), The Art of Finger Perfection (Op. 74), Left-handed Textbook and Advanced Skills. It puts forward extremely high requirements for piano playing skills, which has been adopted by piano teaching for a long time. Cherny also adapted many operas, symphonies and chamber music into piano music. In addition, his performance of ancient and modern piano works tells his views on developing piano skills.

As a whole set of piano etudes created by Cherny are still adopted by experienced piano teachers, Cherny is called "the king of piano etudes" because of his outstanding contribution to piano education.