In Reply to: Just listened to a Würtz miscellany on Spotify this afternoon posted by Chris from Lafayette on November 13, 2014 at 18:14:01:
and Mikrokosmos, a series of numbered short student pieces written in gradually increasing difficulty and complexity. (But you're a piano teacher and probably know all about them.) Bartok himself proposed an order for selections of them to be performed in recital. Deceptively simple -- obviously, Bartok enjoyed the challenge of doing creative things with pieces technically simple enough for the youngest students.
I wish more of today's major composers would challenge themselves with projects like that.
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