Composition database

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Title of the work

Easy Piano Pieces for Children


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Zongoradarabok kezdőknek
Foreign language / English title
Easy Piano Pieces for Children
Year of composition
1991

Type
Chamber Music
Number of players
2
Instrumentation
1 or 2 pf.
Duration
40 min

Movements, parts
I. Finger Staccato in Counter Movement; II-III. Let Us Dance a-b; IV. The Grape Is Ripening; V. March; VI. Hommage a Microcosmos (1-8.); VII. Whole Tone Pentachord; VIII. Reflection; IX. Etude with Variations; X. Storm; XI. Strengthening Exercise; XII. Dance; XIII. The Story of the Table-Tennis Ball; XIV. Rain; XV. Bulgarian Rhythm; XVI. Canon; XVII. Minor and Major Third; XVIII. Striped Cat (for four hands); XIX. It Is Snowing White and Flaky (for four hands); XX. Running Up the Rock (for four hands, T. Aszalós); XXI. Lullaby; XXII. Village End; XXIII. Pied Calf; XXIV. March; XXV. Serenade

Commissioned by
Prof. Tünde Aszalós
Premiere information
28 May 1994, Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest
Publisher / Source
in Aszalós: A zongorázó gyermek / Children Playing the Piano, vols. 2-3, Choral Ltd., 1992, 1995
Remarks, other info
Movements I-XXI: Tünde Aszalós: Children Playing Piano, Volume II. (1992); movements XXII-XXV.: Tünde Aszalós: Children Playing Piano, Volume III. (1995) (each movement for four hands)