The collection ''Children's Music'' by Sergei Prokofiev has caught fancy of the young pianists all over the world. The idea of the collection was inspired to the composer by Schumann's and Tchaikovsky's classical collections of pieces for children. These are 12 pieces having programmatic titles, connected with the world of youngster's impressions and emotions. Here we find landscapes, fantastic imaginative sphere, genre scenes, dancing pieces. The author said: ''The old love for sonatina style has evoked in me (this is one more aspect of this music's ''infantile'' nature).

The pieces from ''Children's Music'' op 65 were composed in Summer 1935, soon after the ballet ''Romeo and Juliet'' was finished. Afterwards Prokofiev resorted to these pieces in 1941, when he orchestrated seven of them, uniting them to the symphonic suite ''Summer Day'' (''Morning'', ''Tag'', ''Waltz'', ''Remorse'', ''March'', ''Evening'', ''As the Crescent's Walking Above the Meadows''), later the music of two pieces (''Waltz'' and ''Evening'') was used in the ballet ''A Tale of the Stony Flower''.