Béla Bartók's "For Children" is one of the best known pedagogical works for piano teachers of the twentieth century, second only perhaps to the same composer's "Mikrokosmos". It was based firmly on the huge number of folk songs he collected, recorded and studied with his colleague Zoltán Kodály. At the time, Bartók was offering something very new to piano teachers and their students. Siegfried Steinkogler became acquainted with "For Children" at the beginning of his guitar studies and, from them...