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May 30
3 min

Czerny Op 740 #42, 3 Versions

There’s a lot to recommend #42 to a ballet accompanist. If you fill out Czerny’s LH with a light waltz accompaniment it makes a solid pet...

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rudyapffel-czerny

May 30
3 min

Czerny Op 740 #43, 5 Versions

I can get Czerny’s arpeggiation up to around the quarter @90, and mm 1-16 with repeats make a lovely short Adagio (2 sets of 8 on each si...

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rudyapffel-czerny

May 30
3 min

Czerny Op 740 #44, 4 Versions

I love the sparkle of Czerny’s note pattern here, and the music remains quite effective with the metronome at 100 rather than his 120. Li...

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rudyapffel-czerny

May 30
3 min

Czerny Op 740 #45, 5 Versions

The passionate rush of this gorgeously Mendelssohnian song without words makes it great Chaines and Pas de Couru music. You might even tr...

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rudyapffel-czerny

May 30
2 min

Czerny Op 740 #46, 2 Versions

Several things recommend #46. There’s the division of labor between hands and the regularity of phrases and structure. It’s also attracti...

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rudyapffel-czerny

May 30
2 min

Czerny Op 740 #47, 2 Versions

The two textures of #47--the RH’s skittery-spidery 32nds, and the LH’s stolid stride--can each be projected with different characters mak...

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rudyapffel-czerny

May 30
2 min

Czerny Op 740 #48, 2 Versions

This is another of the studies that I think of as “gestural” as opposed to “textural.” Other clear examples are #13 and #26, and in my co...

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rudyapffel-czerny

May 30
2 min

Czerny Op 740 #49, 3 Versions

I loved this study from the first time I played through it. The simple scalar material is very easy to read (and I’m not a sight reader) ...

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rudyapffel-czerny

May 30
1 min

Czerny Op 740 #50, 2 Versions

At a tempo well under Czerny’s, this dark surging arpeggio study makes excellent Grands Battements music, and working it up for ballet cl...

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rudyapffel-czerny

Apr 26
3 min

Czerny Op 740 #29, 3 Versions

I can almost reach Czerny’s tempo (using his fingering and keeping my RH fixed but relaxed in position close to the keyboard), but as is ...

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rudyapffel-czerny

Apr 26
2 min

Czerny Op 740 #30, 3 Versions

My arrangements of #30 have the principle aim of shortening and simplifying Czerny’s study to make it more easily mastered, effective in ...

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rudyapffel-czerny

Apr 26
5 min

Czerny Op 740 #31: 5 Versions

This is one of those studies whose bottom-line recommendation is the workout for both hands and a regular phrase structure that makes for...

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rudyapffel-czerny

Apr 26
1 min

Czerny Op 740 #32, Single Version

Don’t take the repeat at m 8, insert a bar between m 15 and m 16, fashion a grand cadence at Czerny’s m 31, and #32 neatly resolves into ...

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rudyapffel-czerny

Apr 26
2 min

Czerny Op 740 #33, 4 Versions

This is another of those graceful, tuneful studies that make me think of Czerny as the Bournonville of the piano. In keeping with his usu...

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rudyapffel-czerny

Apr 26
1 min

Czerny Op 740 #34, Single Version

I think if you’re not careful you can injure yourself trying to get #34 to Czerny’s metronome marking, and the very slight music makes li...

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rudyapffel-czerny

Apr 26
2 min

Czerny Op 740 #35, 2 Versions

I like this study not for its music but for its technique. Changing fingers on repeated notes in both hands is good for warming up and of...

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rudyapffel-czerny

Apr 26
2 min

Czerny Op 740 #36, 3 Versions

On the page #36 certainly looks like a barcarolle, but Czerny’s tempo is much faster than the typical19th Century “boat music.” If you ca...

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rudyapffel-czerny

Apr 26
2 min

Czerny Op 740 #37, 2 Versions

I loved working on this study and getting it into my class repertory. It lies well in my hands and it’s always very exciting in class. Ri...

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rudyapffel-czerny

Apr 26
1 min

Czerny Op 740 #38, Single Version

Part of the charm of this powerful toccata is the in-and-out-of focus meter, but, while there are a number of shortcuts and simplificatio...

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rudyapffel-czerny

Apr 26
1 min

Czerny Op 740 #39, 2 Versions

This study will work for ballet class across a wide range of tempos slower than Czerny’s, but I find it sounds sluggish unless I project ...

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