2 Klavierstucke Woo 19 For Solo Piano 1833

A slight condensation of Hanon's first exercises. The simplification in layout and range make the exercises appear less difficult to a young student.

The "story of a child prodigy caught in a grotesque pattern of exploitaiton and abuse, her oppressor, her father, whose controlling passion was money, not music. After fleeing from her father and growing up in unhappy obscurity, Ruth Slenczynska has become again a remarkable and now mature pianist." Pub W.