Bartok: Mikrokosmos Volumes III-IV Piano SoloBartks Mikrokosmos is one of the milestones in the pedagogical piano repertoire and yet it is also far more than a classical piano primer. These 153 piano pieces, organised in ascending order of difficulty, engage not only with technical aspects of piano playing, but also with the fundamentals of composition from Ostinato, Free variations and Imitation and inversion concerning compositional technique, to programmatic ideas as in From the diary of a