Bartok, Fur Kinder for Cello (EMB)

Series: EMB
Publisher: Editio Musica Budapest
Arranger: Liebner, Halász. 

Für Kinder is a cycle of piano pieces by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. 

The collection of piano pieces was created in 1908 and 1909, at the beginning of Bartók's teaching as a professor of piano at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest . The relatively short pieces are based on melodies from Hungarian and Slovak folk music and have an educational character. There are a total of 85 arrangements for beginners of piano playing, which were published in four issues by the Budapest music publisher Károly Rozsnyai . The first two volumes are based on Hungarian, the other two on Slovakian children's and folk songs. Two pieces of the fourth issue were compositions by Emma Kodály. The level of difficulty increases from the well-known children's songs Süssünk, süssünk valamit and Süss fel nap in the first issue to the Kanásztánc in the second issue, which is a difficult challenge for a beginner at the piano. The Slovakian song texts belonging to the music, which can be found in the appendix to the music book, were translated by Bartók into Hungarian and Emma Kodály into German. The pieces represent the first compositional results of Bartók's folk music research. The places of origin of the melodies were also given in the appendix.