Carl Czerny, the composer, believed that a harmonious, pleasing, and melodious composition would be immediately liked, while an artful or unusually original one would take longer to be appreciated.
Compositional Technique
Carl Czerny's compositional style, especially in these works, uses catchy melodies with virtuosic developments, incorporating 'models of passages, turns and cadenzas' for reuse.
Composer Biography
Carl Czerny studied with Beethoven from 1800 to 1803 and remained in close contact with him, even playing the piano part in Beethoven's 'Emperor' Concerto's first Viennese performance.
Composer Biography
Carl Czerny, the composer, was a child prodigy who played piano at three, composed at seven, and could fluently play works by Mozart and Clementi by age ten.
Instruments
The fortepiano used on this recording was built in 1839 by Johann Baptist Streicher, son of Nanette Streicher, a friend of Beethoven and an eminent piano-builder.
Composition History
The Brillante Fantasien by Carl Czerny incorporate popular melodies by Schubert, which would have been recognized in the 1830s, serving as a compliment to Schubert and publicizing his work.
Recording & Production
This recording is the first to combine the use of valves and a transposable hand-stopping technique on a solo horn and piano.
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