Music and Technique

Technique, or perfecting technique, is the cornerstone of any artistic endeavor. Excercises are essential.

Here are two methods of technique, for flute and piano, and the musucians who developed them.

Carl Czerny

...was an Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin whose vast musical production (more than a thousand pieces and up to Opus 861) is being rediscovered. Czerny's books of études for the piano are still widely used in the pianistic pedagogy.

Here is a partial list of his pedagogical books:

Op.139, 100 Progressive Studies without Octaves
Op.200, The Art of Improvisation (or The School of Extemporaneous Performance)
Op.335, Legato & Staccato Exercises, 2 Bks
Op.400, The School of Fugue Playing, 24 Grand Studies
Op.599, Practical Method for Beginners
Op.718, 24 Studies for the Left Hand
Op.838, Studies on the practical knowledge of all the chords of the General basses
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Ernesto Köhler

...was an Italian flautist and composer. He was considered one of the must flautists of his era.

Born in Modena, Köhler was taught the flute by his father, Venceslau Joseph Köhler, who was the first flute of the Duke of Modena's orchestra. He moved to Vienna in 1869 as a flautist, and then became a member of the orchestra of the Imperial Opera in Saint Petersburg beginning in 1871. He also led the orchestra of the Imperial Institute of Engineering and taught at the Prinz Oldenburg Institute.

Noted as a composer for flute, Köhler wrote over 100 works for the instrument: études, duets, and solos. He also produced an opera and several ballets. He is well known among flute players for "Flöten-Schule" (c. 1880), his popular method for learning the flute, and for Progress in Flute Playing (his Opus 33, published in the 1880s), a series of three progressive instructional books for the flute player.
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Here is a list of his etudes.
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Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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