This volume in the ABC series continues the best traditions of conventional trombone teaching on the one hand and at the same time accommodates to present-day requirements and changing tastes. In concept and subject-matter it embraces the entire material for trombone teaching at the elementary level. It proceeds as far as the 7th position and provides learners with numerous studies, scale exercises and performance pieces. The pieces include many European folk melodies, extracts from classical works well adapted for the trombone, and a number of contemporary compositions written specifically for this instrument. The textual instructions are given in three languages: German, English and Hungarian. The piano accompaniment to this volume is published separetely (Z. 14144P).

The trombonist Ferenc Steiner was born in 1931. From 1960 to 1991 he was a member of the Hungarian State Opera and the Philharmonic Society as well as the Hungarian Brass Ensemble. Education played a major role in the life of Ferenc Steiner as an author and editor of numerous pedagogical editions. He began teaching at the School of Music in Pécs, then moved on to the College for Officers of the Hungarian Defense Forces and later continued his teaching activity at the Liszt Academy in Budapest until 2001. He has passed away on the 25th of March in 2011.