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Carl Czerny

1791 - 1857

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Carl Czerny (; German: [ˈtʃɛʁniː]; 21 February 1791 – 15 July 1857) was an Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin whose music spanned the late Classical and early Romantic eras. His vast musical production amounted to over a thousand works and his books of studies for the piano are still widely used in piano teaching. He was one of Ludwig van Beethoven's best-known pupils and would later on be one of the main teachers of Franz Liszt. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Czerny is the 91st most popular composer (down from 83rd in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from Austria (down from 72nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Austrian Composer.

Czerny is most famous for his piano studies.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Carl Czerny ranks 91 out of 1,451. Before him are Heinrich Schütz, Luigi Cherubini, Luigi Boccherini, John Williams, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, and Olivier Messiaen. After him are Nino Rota, John Cage, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Pierre Boulez, Jacopo Peri, and Ruggero Leoncavallo.

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Among people born in 1791, Carl Czerny ranks 7. Before him are Michael Faraday, Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Charles Babbage, Samuel Morse, Théodore Géricault, and James Buchanan. After him are Giacomo Meyerbeer, Franz Bopp, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Francesco Hayez, Johann Franz Encke, and Franz Grillparzer. Among people deceased in 1857, Carl Czerny ranks 4. Before him are Auguste Comte, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, and Archduchess Sophie of Austria. After him are Mikhail Glinka, Dominic Savio, Eugène François Vidocq, Alfred de Musset, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Eugène Sue, Hinrich Lichtenstein, and Louis-Eugène Cavaignac.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Carl Czerny ranks 87 out of 1,424. Before him are Fritz Lang (1890), Albert II of Germany (1397), Mariana of Austria (1634), Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria (1842), Josef Stefan (1835), and Robert Musil (1880). After him are Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (1861), Josef Bican (1913), Christoph Waltz (1956), Maria Anna Mozart (1751), Peter Drucker (1909), and Otto Wagner (1841).

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Among COMPOSERS In Austria

Among composers born in Austria, Carl Czerny ranks 10. Before him are Johann Strauss II (1825), Johann Strauss I (1804), Anton Bruckner (1824), Arnold Schoenberg (1874), Anton Webern (1883), and Alban Berg (1885). After him are Alma Mahler (1879), Josef Strauss (1827), Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791), Eduard Strauss (1835), Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865), and Michael Haydn (1737).

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