Sergei Prokofiev: 12 Easy Pieces, Op. 65 No. 12 – The Moon Walks Over the Meadows

“«In the summer of 1935, at the same time as «Romeo and Juliet», I was composing light pieces for children, in which my old love of sonatinity was awakened, reaching here, as it seemed to me, full childishness. By the fall I had a dozen of them, which then came out in a collection called «Children’s Music», Op. 65. The last of the pieces, «The Month Walks over the Meadows», was written on its own, not a folk theme. I lived then in Polenov, in a separate hut with a balcony on the Oka River, and in the evenings I used to admire how the month walked through meadows and meadows. The need for children’s music was clearly felt…», – writes the composer in his «Autobiography».”
(V. Delson, “Prokofiev’s Piano Works and Pianism”)