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| | Classical musical midi, a good place to read a composers biography with a list classical midi files for download. |
 | | KARL CZERNY was born in Vienna, February 21, 1791· From Wenzel Czerny, his father, a Bohemian by birth, he inherited the Bohemian accent that marked his speech for life; and from his father he received pianoforte lessons almost as soon he could move his fingers. |
 | | He was very particular about the legato." We are told of Czerny's course with Liszt, who in 1821, as an infant prodigy, so won the sympathy of the teacher that he taught him for a year and a half without reward of money, and loved him as a brother. |
 | | Czerny studied composition by reading the treatises of Turk, Kirnberger, Albrechtsberger, and Marpurg, and putting together the voice-parts of the quartets and the symphonies of Haydn and Mozart. |
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