Etudes is a ballet of mounting excitement as choreographer Harald Lander takes the audience and the dancers through the progress of classical dance technique culminating in a spectacular finale of...
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Carl Czerny (1791-1857). Austrian composer
Carl Czerny was an Austrian composer who wrote music during the late classical to early Romantic eras. He studied with Ludwig van Beethoven from the age of ten, following a performance of Beethoven’s ‘Pathetique’ Sonata. Czerny was also the soloist at the premiere of Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Piano Concerto in Vienna.
Czerny later went on to teach Franz Liszt, and his compositional style can be read as a bridge between the two revolutionary composers and pianists; a blend of dense chromatics and virtuosic pianistic displays. Czerny’s many piano studies, including Exercises in Passage Playing, The School of Velocity, The School of Legato and Staccato and The Art of Finger Dexterity were among many others arranged and orchestrated by Knugåge Riisager for Harald Lander’s ballet Etudes. The work is a homage to classical ballet technique, and is in the format of a class, progressing from ‘Exercises à la barre’ to ‘Au milieu’. It was first performed by the Royal Danish Ballet in 1948.