Hello

Have worked my way through Czerny exercises which I now encourage my students to do. Trouble is, the local music shop I used to order them from has shut down Other stores say he must be out of print, and he doesn't seem to crop up much in places like EBay. Anybody know where I can still get these books? (I'm in Kent ).

Just out of interest, what do others think of these exercises? How many encourage students to try them?

Thanks everyone

musicroom.com will surely have them.

Good old Amazon, I expect, which does sell music, no matter what my friends may think.

Have you looked at the free public domain editions at Sheet Music Archive? Downloads are limited to 2 per day.

Almost every piano student in Japan does Czerny, even though they are no longer so common in English-speaking countries. They are used as a kind of grade system - if you switch teachers, you have to tell them which Czerny etude you are up to!

Czerny and Hanon was must have to my old teacher. Along with a sonatina book. Czerny 30 book no1(Exactly g5 standard)
My new teather dosn't use them, so I have to do them by myself, my fingers need a good warm-up
My old teacher is japanese, so it's normal

I use the !01 Exercises for piano a lot. I find that the older pupils love them, and they are not too long , but they are great starting points for getting a good technique for playing Mozart and Haydn I find.

I've heard of these exercises before ,what are they exactly?

They are short study pieces for the piano, each one written to practise a certain technical point. In the 101 set for example the first two are simple finger exs to practise fluency in semiquaver playing with simple chord accomps. They were written by Carl Czerny, (pronounced "Churny") who was a pupil of Beethoven, and a teacher of Lizst. He wrote a lot of music and most of it is not performed today. It is really just the piano teaching stuff that is widely used. Poor fellow is out of fashion!

I recently brought Czenry 101 exercises from musicroom.co.uk. It's excellent; I have found it really useful!

Is that why he was called Churny?

I have that one

I got them from here

They are REALLY usefull..

Yup, thats where I got mine from!! My teacher makes me do them but I think they are great exercises - although sometimes deadly boring!!

Hanon are more boring , but they are great as well.

I think that I found the Czerny exercises at the Music Exchange in Manchester. At home we use a combination of Czerny and Hanon and someone called Schmitt, the latter are fiendish! I've never spent enough time on these sorts of exercises, and having failed grade 8 with very poor technique, have spent the summer doing Hanon and Czerny. What a difference, especially with the Bach, thanks to all of you who mentioned these books on this site.