Carl Czerny and post-classicism / Otto Biba -- Czerny’s Vienna / Alice M. Hanson -- Carl Czerny’s recollections: an overview and an edition of two unpublished autograph sources / Attilio Bottegal -- A star is born? Czerny, Liszt, and the pedagogy of virtuosity / James Deaville -- The veil of fiction: pedagogy and rhetorical strategies in Carl Czerny’s Letters on the art of playing the pianoforte / Deanna C. Davis -- Carl Czerny: Beethoven’s ambassador posthumous / Ingrid Fuchs -- Playing Beethoven his way: Czerny and the canonization of performance practice / James Parakilas -- Carl Czerny and musical authority: locating the "primary vessel" of the musical tradition / George Barth -- Carl Czerny, composer / Anton Kuerti -- Carl Czerny’s Mass no. 2 in C major: church music and the Biedermeier spirit / John Wiebe -- Carl Czerny’s orchestral music: a preliminary study / Douglas Townsend -- Not just a dry academic: Czerny’s string quartets in E and D minor / Marie Sumner Lott -- Czerny and the keyboard fantasy: traditions, innovations, legacy / Michael Saffle -- The fall and rise of "considerable talent": Carl Czerny and the dynamics of musical reputation / David Gramit.