4 Foreword generally, iva ; wh fal pana stusents, Neverthel JM (ayy), hegreed to start te During the avveptest oy aby raasabout nine years a rye tr the very begin, The resebung programe dl not flay a aecepted pian aboot tovhnigue. At ust Fvastosing only, Later, exercises the independent control reve emproise rete ake ringers. tn the vautse of our Kessons he sem See me to watt while he sat dow at is desk, and woud wg of his pen, na few minutes he 1 Ihoar only the seratsh sould being to the pa teas to dopher ight assay and then learn for our next lesson, » were buen somte of the easier pices in these volumes However, he hept on producing others ata much faster rate than Lcould lean them, He wrote the little compositions as the ideas occurred to hina. Soon there was a large collection to choose from, sol could learn those assigned to me froma fair copy of the manuscript. Eventually my father arranged the pieces ina progressive ‘order for publication. He explained his choice of title thus: “The Mikrokosmos is a eydle of 253 pieces for vwntten with a didactic purpose. Tha is, to give piano pieces which can be used from the very beginning, and then going, on, it is graded according to difficulties. And the word © Conyrabs vy by Boosey Hacks Moe Phere Li > Aikokosins may be imterpreel 98 sre y lifferent styles, representing a small wort] (Pin as “world of the litle anes. the ty [Interview bronleast by ws1yc, New York, ines carly a programe entitled Ask the Composer. Som the present edition (1987) all known my uave been compared with the original primey sions (ist published in Londonand New Yorks and errors have been conreced inthe eg Pt) iefintive edition. I wish to record my thanksin et ta Eve Beylarian, for her work in comparing mane! the printed editions and determining the neve "th tions; 10 Gydrgy Sindor for offering suggestions ance in deciding a numberof musical problems, nt Somfai, of the Budapest Bartok Archive, for making able copies of material in the Archive's posses srt Jean-Marie Cassagne, Alliance Francaise de Munr',” partial revision of the French texts. The translations hace been finally revised by Gale Garnett (English verses) thet UC Spiegel French tees and weve) sad Bee ae (German texts and verses). Peren Barron Homosassa, Florida, 1987 ‘Scansionato con CamScanner —