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The idea of composing 'Games' was suggested by children playing spontaneously, children for whom the piano still means a toy. They experiment with it, caress it, attack it and run their fingers over i...

The piano series entitled Games, written from 1973 onwards, was conceived originally as a piano method. Its early volumes introduced children to the basic elements in piano-playing and musical thinkin...

The work was composed in 1908-1910. 'Bartók may have chosen to call these sketches because most of the pieces are indeed like a painter's sketch for a later, larger work: quickly executed creative wor...

Each book in series presents a composer trough a selection of brief pieces. The first volumes help the young pianist to become acquainted with the music of Händel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert,...

The collection has been intended to give instrumental beginners the possibility to play together as early as in the second of third year of study.

An ABRSM syllabus title.

Music school students can develop their technical skills by means of a 'game' lasting throughout a year: this volume contains 52 pieces, thus providing an etude for every week of the year. These short...

The piece, which is unique in its selection of performing forces, was written for bass trombone and wind quintet in 1989 at the request of Sándor Balogh, bass trombonist at the Orchestra of the Hungar...

In the Piano ABC the musical contents and teaching experiences of Eastern and Western Europe are combined. Thus this piano tutor can mediate musically between Eastern and Western Europe. The Piano ABC...

From 1848 to 1850 Liszt wrote three piano pieces that were published at the end of 1850 under the title Liebesträume - 3 Notturnos. The composition reworks three songs written between 1843 and 1850 wh...

Of this series of twenty-four études planned by Liszt only twelve were actually written, but the contemporary printed editions of the completed pieces (in the hope of a continuation) appeared with the...

Pál Járdányi (1920 - 1966) was one of the most distinguished figures in Hungarian music during the years following the Second World War. He was an innovative researcher in the field of folk music, an...

This is one of the most successful volumes in the series. Árpád Pejtsik s ABC does not seek to alter or influence teachers ideas about methodology, it simply offers colourful, attractive musical mater...

Between 1917 and 1931 Ottorino Respighi harmonized and instrumented twelve works from the 16th- and 17th-century Italian and French lute literature and arranged the pieces into three 4-movement suites...