Adult Life
In his adult life, Czerny taught daily piano lessons (12 hours per day) in Vienna. Czerny only left temporarily Vienna to make trips to Italy, France and England. After 1840, Czerny devote himself exclusively to composition. A religious person, Czerny used to play organ in churches and composed a collection of masses (perhaps 21 Masses, all of then unpublished).
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