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From the Bavarian Library:

Douze rondeaux amusans pour le pianoforte à quatre mains sur des thèmes allemands et italiens ; Oeuv. 618
Autor: Czerny, Carl
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Panorama beliebter Melodien aller Nationen als Rondos, Variationen, kleine Fantasien etc. im leichteren Style für das Piano-Forte ; op. 729
Autor: Czerny, Carl
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Regards
Fred

Aprosdoketon wrote: ↑Sat Nov 05, 2016 5:29 pm A looooooong way to go...
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Hello Aprosdoketon,

Your offer to typeset the Siloti transcription of Vocalise
reminded me of your message of 2016:
did you ever manage to finish typesetting
Czerny's Op. 493, the Fantasie brillante on Mozart's Figaro?
The scan on IMSLP is very hard to read,
while the 8 bars you posted were beautifully typeset.
Greetings, kroket

This one is easier to read.
Bw, paolor

paolor wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 11:36 am Czerny C op.493 Mozart Figaro-Fantasie.pdfThis one is easier to read.
Bw, paolor

Yes, indeed, that's a huge difference!
Thank you very much, Paolor,
for this wonderful piece.
Greetings,
kroket

kroket wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2019 6:33 pm
Hello Aprosdoketon,

Your offer to typeset the Siloti transcription of Vocalise
reminded me of your message of 2016:
did you ever manage to finish typesetting
Czerny's Op. 493, the Fantasie brillante on Mozart's Figaro?
The scan on IMSLP is very hard to read,
while the 8 bars you posted were beautifully typeset.
Greetings, kroket

Hi! I did some work but in 2017 my hard drive died, making me lose all .sib files (sob!)
Nice to see a cleaner version by Paolo!

In the meantime I posted a little engraving of mine in the German Composers thread.

Czerny seems to have produced several piano pieces based on
themes from Donizetti's opera Torquato Tasso, including his
Op.448, Op.532, and Op.843/5. Knowing almost nothing about CC,
I've no idea what opus number (if any) is attached to this piece,
which took 5 minutes to scan and 5 days to clean up!

And a fine job it is. Thanks Tim.

Good job indeed. Thank you Tim. Unusally easy under the fingers for Czerny.

Tim, this is an easy fantasy Czerny published within the "Pfennig magazine" w/o opus number. Cz. wrote many larger pieces based on that opera:

- Fantasy op.625 n.6 vl.pf.
- Rondino op.843 n.5
- Melodie op.440 n.3 (missing in my collection)
- Capriccio op.448 "
- Fantaisie op.532
- Rondo op.583 n.12

Evidently he was a little obsessed by an opera which is noe very seldom performed !

does anyone have an alternate or more modern edition of Czerny's Op. 818 - 50 Etudes ?

Either way, I think that this opus deserves some light, among the piles of Czerny works/etudes.
I like the title regarding 'Volubility,' which I may translate as 'ease of expression."

Czerny, Carl-Op. 818-Etudes de la Volubilite (Nos. 01-32)
Czerny, Carl-Op. 818-Etudes de la Volubilite (Nos. 33-50)