Bortkiewicz’s Op. 39 Kindheit suite was published in 1930, setting scenes, characters, and moods from Tolstoy’s 1852 novel of the same name. The suite — and perhaps the book, I have no idea — opens with “Karl Ivanovich, Der Lehrer” (“The Teacher”).

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