I'd originally added a 'second' piano part to Mozart's Rondo alla turca to give it a distinct 'samba' feel. Most young pianists have probably played Mozart's original piece, as well as C P E Bach's Solfeggietto, on which I've based the present piece, again for two pianos. Here, the first part is Bach's original, with just a little bit tacked on at the end. In writing a second piano part to accompany this, I had in mind a walking bass line, with a little piano jazz over the top.

However, the listener might notice that the second part is being played by father, Johann, who can't resist slipping in a couple of snatches from his own works along the way! As with the Mozart, purists may disregard the second piano, and just play the top part between the square brackets!

I was pleased at the time to be able to attach an MP3 file of the piece performed by M (She) and Goran (He) from Serbia, who are both pianists and teachers in a local Music School in the west of the Republic.

Bizarrely, the connection came from another Serbian lady piano teacher, whom I had previously helped promote a book of simple pedagogic piano titles, and who was acquainted with these two younger teachers from their student days in the capital.

Despite the time I had given freely gratuitously to the older teacher, our friendship suddenly went pear-shaped, because of something I think I said about the Serbian Tennis Player, Djokovic, some years later, and his refusal to be vaccinated against Covid. Furthermore, when I commented that I had recently reviewed two lovely CDs of Albanian Piano Music, performed by a lovely lady from that country, and whom I had since met on a couple of different occasions in Italy, where she now lives with her husband and young daughter, the amount of insult the Serbian lady started spouted about everyday Albanian people, was really offensive and so I was relieved when she unfriended me on Facebook! Not a nice presonto know, and certainly no friend of mine!

I wouldn't have mentioned that here, except that, the younger couple kept in contact and this even resulted in my visiting Serbia this July (2023). Obviously I met up with my colleagues, but was astute enough to stay in hotels, never in their homes.

Things seem to be going fine, but, because I had a minor fall almost before I was leaving Serbia, I simply cut my trip short by a few days, which would have made no difference to them anywat!

But, from the moment I boarded my plane, I felt a decided cooling down in the relationship! I felt I had always got on well with 'G', but secretly I think that 'M' was tarred with the same brush as the other lady. A classical expression we use in English for such wives is: 'She who must be obeyed!' To me it was so obvious who was wearing the trousers, and thought's of 'man' or 'mouse' were never far from my mind.

Unfortunately it's not a particularly well-endowed destination for visitors when compared with neighbours, Croatia, Slovenia, or Montenegro, and I kind of think Serbs got got a slight chip on their shoulder because, and in terms of the break up of the former Yugoslavia, as an impartial visitor, I would say they've definitely ended up with the worse bits! I can honestly say I've enjoyed many other destinations far better, as, frankly-speaking, what I saw of Serbia had very little to interest me, or ever make me want to return!

But - and that's got nothing to do with the music, they still did a stupendous job in recording Solfeggiettissimo - and I shall always be grateful to them for this - even if we probably never ever contact one another at any time in the future!

The dedication is to a certain 'BK' - let's just say you don't want to know, or go there!