op. 25 / No. 19-24
In his native Ukraine, Viktor Kosenko (1896–1938) is rightly seen as one of the most important pioneers of the national piano school in the first half of the 20th century. It is impossible to imagine the repertoire of pupils and students in that country without his piano pieces. Kosenko's individual compositional style is fundamentally bound up with major-minor tonality. He links late Romanticism with the Modern Era in an original manner.
Kosenko is often regarded as a neoclassicist. Although he lived to see only his 42nd year, his oeuvre encompasses around 250 compositions, among them about 100 works for the piano.
Kosenko‘s 24 Children‘s Pieces are part of the standard repertoire for piano tuition in Eastern Europe and are here – for the first time outside Ukraine – published for the first time as a clearly arranged complete edition in three volumes. They are rooted in the tradition of well-known pedagogical piano works of the 19th century, such as Robert Schumann‘s Album for the Young or Pyotr Tchaikovsky‘s Children‘s Album.
With the free HELBLING Media App the user has access to professional recordings of all pieces. On the front inside cover there is a short set of instructions and an access code for the audio content.