This collection by the well-known Russian composer and piano educator Sergei Slonimsky contains three cycles of short pieces for piano that simultaneously fulfill both artistic and educational demands. Regarding their level of difficulty, the smallworks are ordered progressively and children and adults as well as beginners and returning piano enthusiasts will all find excellent, new performance material. Slonimsky has designed a series of musical vignettes of varied poetic scenes, very much inthe style of Robert Schumann. The collection begins with the first steps at the piano and ends with a musical journey to foreign countries and continents.The book contains: 1)'The Pianists First Steps', 2) 'A Childs Summer Day', 3) 'MusicalJourney to Foreign Countries and Continents'.