Product Overview
Series: Schirmer Performance Editions
Instrumentation: Piano
Format: Book
Composer: Dmitri Kabalevsky
17 pieces from various opus sets in progressive order.
Kabalevsky often quoted Russian writer Maxim Gorky that books for children should be “the same as for adults, only better.” In one volume the miniature masterpieces that Kabalevsky composed for piano students have been grouped by level of difficulty, drawn from various sets. The composer believed that “no piece of music, however short and modest, should pass by a child without touching his mind and heart.”
- The Chase, Op. 27, No. 21
- Dance Variations On A Russian Folk Song, Op. 51, No. 2
- Etude In A Minor, Op. 27, No. 3
- Fairy Tale, Op. 27, No. 20
- A Little Prank, Op. 27, No. 13
- Lyric Piece, Op. 27, No. 16
- Naughty Boys, Op. 88, No. 6
- Novelette, Op. 27, No. 25
- Prelude And Fugue In G Major
- Prelude In A Minor, Op. 5, No. 1
- Prelude In C Major, Op. 38, No. 1
- Prelude In D-Flat Major, Op. 38, No. 15
- Rondo-Song
- Rondo-Toccata, Op. 60, No. 4
- Seven Cheerful Variations On A Slovakian Folk Song, Op. 51, No. 4
- Slow Waltz, Op 39, No. 23
- Sporting Game, Op. 14, No. 2
