After the 24 character pieces of the first volume of the Wolf-Temperiertes Klavier (2018) and the 24 Jazz-Preludes of the second volume (2022), Péter Wolf continued the series with a new volume of 23 pieces that he composed for the youngest pianists.

The title of the volume still refers to Bach, but it is not about pieces with a contrapuntal structure, but about small miniatures, each of which presents a musical idea and mood. As the piano teacher Rita Znamenák writes in the foreword of the volume: The short pieces in­spire the children’s imagination already with their pieces. We may find titles that require a lyric sonority (Sorrow, Alone with Mum), fairy tale characters (The Youngest Son, Sad Princess), funny animals (Rhino in the Puddle, Waddling Ducklings), witty wordplay (What the Quaver!, Sparring Hands), funny expressions referring to jazz (Lazy Blues, Teeny-Tiny-Tango).

The pieces do not follow each other in order of difficulty. Teachers and students can freely choose among pieces which require crossing hands, arpeggios, clusters, polyphony, syncopated rhythm, chromati­cism, and pedalling. There are melodies with accompaniment, playing with alternate hands, playing legato and staccato, notes with appoggiaturas and acciaccaturas, jazz accents, and glissandi, too. The composer wrote unusual sound effects into a few pieces for the brave: such as clapping in Wobbly Dance or the an­imal sound effects and the words in Puss Hunting Mice and Fledgling Owl.

The pieces have a wide range, so the students can freely move along nearly the whole keyboard.