Carl Czerny (1791 – 1857) was an Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin whose music spanned the late Classical and early Romantic eras. His vast musical production amounted to over a thousand works and his books of studies for the piano are still widely used in piano teaching. He was one of Ludwig van Beethoven's best-known pupils and would later on be one of the main teachers of Franz Liszt. Czerny composed a very large number of pieces (more than one thousand and up to Op. 861). Czerny's works include not only piano music (études, nocturnes, sonatas, opera theme arrangements and variations) but also masses and choral music, symphonies, concertos, songs, string quartets and other chamber music. The better known part of Czerny's repertoire is the large number of didactic piano pieces he wrote, such as The School of Velocity and The Art of Finger Dexterity. He was one of the first composers to use étude ("study") for a title. Czerny's body of works also include arrangements of many popular opera themes.

The majority of the pieces called by Czerny "serious music" (masses, choral music, quartets, orchestral and chamber music) remain in unpublished manuscript form and are held by Vienna's Society for the Friends of Music, to which Czerny (a childless bachelor) willed his estate.

His "Album élégant des dames pianistes" (Opus 804), is subtitled "24 Morceaux melodieux." Each of the pieces is assigned a woman's first name (these are character types, rather than actual individuals). "Feodora" (Op. 804 No. 16) in F Minor, is notably reminiscint of Bizet's "Carmen"; not an expection from the mind of Czerny.

Source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Czerny).

Although originally written for solo piano. I created this Arrangement of "Feodora" from "Album élégant des dames pianistes" (Op. 804 No. 16) in A Minor for String Quartet (2 Violins, Viola & Cello).