Music for young pianists

[Ten thumbs]

There is an important class of music that is not in general listened to on CDs. My heading relates to piano music for beginners but the same could be applied to other instruments. It strikes me that when I was learning in the 50s, I was given no exposure to modern music. I believe the position has improved now but we cannot expect children to grow up into contemporary music if they do not sample it from the beginning.
Here are some useful examples from the past, taken mostly from my music cabinet:
Baroque:
J S Bach - A Notebook for Anna Magdalena
There must be other examples.

Classical:
Sonatinas by Mozart, Clementi, Beethoven etc
Clementi - Gradus ad Parnassum
Hummel - Klavierschule

Romantic:
Schumann - Album for the Young
Kirchner - New scenes from Childhood
Heller - Album for the Young
Tchaikowski - Album for the Young

Post-Romantic:
Debussy - Children's Corner
Kodahy - Children's Dances (and much more)
Mel Bonis - Album pour les Tout-Petits, Miocheries

More Modern:
Bartok - Mikrokosmos

Now I have a void, what's going on now?
Give me more examples, please.

[Timmyb]

Debussy's Children's Corner wasn't actually intended to be played by children but rather to conjure up images of childhood rather like Schumann's kinderszenen.

[Ten thumbs]

Debussy's Children's Corner wasn't actually intended to be played by children but rather to conjure up images of childhood rather like Schumann's kinderszenen.

I agree. It is hardly for beginners, and you can find it on CD! I definitely need more from the 20th century.

[Novi]

A couple of months ago, I heard an interview with Uchida on the radio when she completely dismissed the standard children repertoire - I think it was the Clementi C major sonatina that she hummed sarcastically - and suggested instead that young players should go to pieces like Berg op.1 (I think - can't quite remember, but it was 2nd Viennese).

She's quite a flamboyant interviewee .

[c#minor]

Chopin Prelude in E minor, it's fairly easy and stunning. Give the student samples of alot of different styles and see what the students like. I took to Beethoven at first and then came to love the music of Chopin but i was exposed to alot of music, i just told my teacher the ones i liked.

[Ten thumbs]

Chopin Prelude in E minor, it's fairly easy and stunning. Give the student samples of alot of different styles and see what the students like. I took to Beethoven at first and then came to love the music of Chopin but i was exposed to alot of music, i just told my teacher the ones i liked.

Yes, I remember going on to easy 'classics'. There were, and probably still are, volumes of them. However, I've never seen either Chopin or Beethoven printed in BIG NOTES.

[Ten thumbs]

A couple of months ago, I heard an interview with Uchida on the radio when she completely dismissed the standard children repertoire - I think it was the Clementi C major sonatina that she hummed sarcastically - and suggested instead that young players should go to pieces like Berg op.1 (I think - can't quite remember, but it was 2nd Viennese).

She's quite a flamboyant interviewee .

She is probably right too but I'm not sure how 7-8 year-olds would approach Berg. The idea in the past was to give them pieces with titles with which they can identify. Maybe we need new pieces with titles to reflect the modern way of life.
The idea is to introduce the very young to modern music not the classics for which there is ample material available.