Carl Czerny

Austrian composer Carl Czerny (1791-1857), also a pianist and teacher. He quickly took to teaching and by the age of fifteen, he was already a sought after instructor. He eventually instructed Franz Liszt, among many others. Liszt later dedicated his twelve Transcendental Etudes to Czerny, who was one of the first composers to use étude ("study") for a title. Liszt also implicated him in the collaborative work Hexaméron (the fifth variation on the Bellini's theme is his).