On the proper performance of all Beethoven's works for the piano ; Reminiscences of Beethoven, and, chapters II and III from volume IV of the Complete theoretical and practical piano forte school : op. 500
Carl Czerny (Author), Paul Badura-Skoda (Editor)
It is one of music history's fortunate coincidences that Beethoven's pupil the author was one of the greatest piano pedagogues. At a time when Beethoven's works were hardly cultivated any more, fashion having taken other directions, the author did much to ensure that the Beethoven tradition did not die out. He taught his pupils (among them the young Franz Liszt) to play Beethoven's works; he arranged private concerts devoted exclusively to those works; and he made excellent two and four-hand piano transcriptions, some of them under Beethoven's supervision, of orchestral and chamber works, which were widely circulated in that form. Apart from these activities, which were more for the benefit of his contemporaries, the author produced three documents concerning his personal relations with Beethoven; for posterity, they are of the greatest importance. They are his memoirs and various other writings in which he tells of his encounters with Beethoven; an edition of all Beethoven's sonatas and other piano pieces, with metronome markings and fingerings; and, most important, the chapter "On the proper performance of all Beethoven's works for the piano solo" and "for the pianoforte with accompaniments for other instruments" in vol. IV of his "School for the Piano, Op.500", in which he discusses, briefly and to the point, the interpretation of the master's complete piano works including chamber music with piano, and the piano concertos
Print Book, English, 1970
Wiener Urtext Ausgabe : Universal Edition ; For USA, Theodore Presser, [Wien], Bryn Mawr, Penn., 1970