Music and Art
Works entitled Gradus ad Parnassum include:
- a seminal textbook on counterpoint written by Johann Fux in 1725, but still used today for instruction in musical theory and composition; Leopold Mozart is said to have taught his son Wolfgang from its pages. Beethoven held it in great esteem, and Haydn meticulously worked out each of its exercises.
- a collection of instructional piano pieces by Muzio Clementi and also a collection of instruction piano pieces by Carl Czerny
- a collection of instructional violin studies by Ernst Heim
- a series of pedagogical works for violin by Jakob Dont
- a collection of 24 double bass studies by Franz Simandl
Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum is a satirical piano composition by Claude Debussy, from his suite Children's Corner, poking fun at Muzio Clementi's collection (or, as Myriam Chimènes states in the notes to the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli version, at Czerny's collection). An arrangement of Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum for banjo, violin and cello by Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer on Fleck's album Perpetual Motion won a Grammy in 2002 for Best Classical Arrangement.
Ad Parnassum is a significant painting in the divisionist style by Paul Klee.
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