Carl Czerny Grande Sérénade Concertante (3/3)

"While still a child I often amused myself with a schoolboy's mischievous pranks, and my public never failed to fall into my trap. For example, I played one and the same piece now as a composition by Beethoven, now as a composition by Czerny, and now as my own. On the day when I presented it as my own work, I received the most encouraging applause ('That isn't bad at all for his age!'). On the day when I performed it under Czerny's name, they hardly listened to me. When I performed it with Beethoven's authority, then at long last I had a sure way of obtaining bravos from the whole audience."

Franz Liszt (a student of Czerny's who himself was a Beethoven pupil) wrote the above in a letter to George Sand. And it is probably a trick that would work today, just as well. Carl Czerny wrote this serenade in 1827 for Clarinet, Horn, Violoncello and Piano. Naturally the piano takes a lot of space but all the instruments get to present themselves. An adadgio introduction leads into a brilliant set of variations. Then a slow movement and a finale 'con fuoco'. Claudius Tanski, piano. Dieter Klöcker on the clarinet, Jan Schroeder on the horn and Martin Menking on the violoncello.

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[susumu07]

That's a pretty funny story from Lizst. It sucks that when a piece is labeled as Czerny it gets ignored. Czerny was an excellent composer, not just a teacher or theoretician, his work should be appreciated more. Very similar to Beethoven, though he may have been written off simply because Beethoven is a very though act to follow. The same thing happened to Moscheles, Kalkenbrenner, etc.... but Czerny, I think, was better than all of those "successors" of Beethoven.