Prepared to edition and edited by professor A. K. SUKHORUKOV
Vladimir Lvovich Mititello was born in Leningrad in 1933 year. He studied at the distinguished Russian horn-player professor Mikhail Nikolayevich Buyanovsky. Being a versatile musician and a teacher he worked in the symphony orchestras of Odessa and Kuybyshev. Having graduated from the Kuybyshev Pedagogical Institute and the postgraduate course of the Moscow State University, he defended his thesis.
Nowadays Mititello is a Candidate of Philosophy and the reader of the Culture theory and history at the Samara University. At the same time V. L. Mititello conducts the horn class in the Academy of Culture and Arts and in the Music college in Samara.
One of the most brilliant Mititello's talent manifestation is his activity as a composer. He is the author of four symphonies, chamber instrumental and choral compositions, music to theatre performances.
The offered book of the etudes-characters for horn is written in 1992-1993 years. This is the first part-book of ''The Album of the European Songs and Dances''.
Anatoly Sukhorukov (translated by Asya Ardova)
Contents:

Canary
Canzonetta
Carmagnola
Caccia
Contra-dance
Krakoviak
Courante
Lancers
Landler
Mazurka
Malaguena
Matelote
Minuet
Motet
Oberek
Pavana
Passacaflia
Pastourele
Polonaise
Polka