Technical exercises and others

Technical exercises and others

«Correct your mistakes from your own experience, and not superficially

and you shall gain much confidence».

1. We should always use various and several exercises and studies, including technical ones, as long as these can put right several difficulties. They should never, however, become an end in themselves, but serve the final goal and end, which is nothing more than the correct expression and performance of the compositions which we wish to perform.

2. Pianists, just as dancers and athletes, should never stop exercising, that is, they should never cease their athletic training. All of us have several defects or imperfections which can only be put right from own experience and not by superficial methods; several exercises may be employed to enable us to be freed from them.

3. A fairly good and practical method and exercise, is to convert several parts of the composition into individual exercises or to group notes together according to position. The several works or technical exercises should be classified in order of hierarchy depending on their degree of difficulty.

4. Technical exercises, listed according to degree of difficulty, include: Grade Work Composer Introductory Le petit clavier Morhange Preliminary Le deliateur Grade 1, 2 100 Recreations Cerny Grade 3, 4 200 picoli canoni Kunz Petit Pishna Wolf 30 Studies Czerny 40 Studies Czerny Studies Op.47 Heller Grade 5, 6 Hanon Pischna Wolf or Rehberg Virtuosity Studies Morkofsky Studies Op.45, 46 Heller Grade Work Composer Grade 7, 8 L' ecole du virtuoso Cerny L' art de delieur les doigts Cerny Ecole de la main gauche Cerny Principes rationnels de la technique pianistique Cortot Etudes de concert Chopin-Liszt Rafael Joseffy School of Art Moskovsky-Moheles Gradus ad Parnasum Clementi-Tausing

5. Works of J. S. Bach, according to degree of difficulty: Grade Work Number Inr.-2 Der erste Bach 1,2,4,7,8,5,9,11,16,13,10,18,25,24,22 3 Der erste Bach 15, 21, 19, 17 4 Small Preludes and Fugettes 5 Two-part Invasions 4,1,3,10,7,8,14,15,13,12,6,11,9,2,5 6 Three-part Invasions 15,6,7,13,12,1,5,3,4,14,11,10,2,8,9 French Suites Preludes and Fuges 2,5,6,10,11,13,14,15,16,17,18,3,21 (1st Volume) 23,1,8,9,7,19,24,22,4,12,20 6. Several Sonatinas in order of difficulty: Clementi; Op.36 No.1 (1st mov.), Op.36 No.1 (3rd mov.), Op.36 No.3 (2nd mov.), Op.36 No.3 (3rd mov.), Op.36 No.2 (3rd mov.), Op.36 No.2 (2nd mov.), Op.36 No.2 (1st mov.), Kolau; Op.55 No.1, Clementi; Op.36 No.5 (3rd mov.),Op.36 No.3 (1st mov.), Op.36 No.4 (1st mov.), Kolau; Op.20 No.1, Clementi; Op.36 No.4 (3rd mov.), Op.36 No.4 (2nd mov.), Kolau; Op.55 No.3, Op.55 No.3, Clementi; Op.36 No.5 (1st mov.), Op.36 No.6, Mozart; Sonata K.545 in C, Kolau; Op.20 No.2, Op.20 No.3, Dousek; Op.20 No.1, Haydn; Sonatina in C, Beethoven; Op.49 No.2 in G, Sonata Op.49 No.1 in G minor. 7. Beethoven's Sonatas in order of difficulty: Grade Sonatas of L. v. Beetoven: 3-4 Op.49 No.2, Op 49 No.1 5-6 Op.79, Op.14 No.1, Op.14 No.2, Op.2 No.1, Op.10 No.1, Op.10 No.2 7-8 Op.13, Op.7, Op.22, Op.10 No.3, Op.26, Op.2 No.3, Op.2 No.2, Op.27 No.2, Op.27 No.1, Op.90, Op.28, Op.31 No.1, Op.31 No.2, Op.31 No3, Op.54, Op.78, Op.81a, Op.53, Op.110, Op.109, Op.57, Op.101, Op.111, Op.106