Images from Childhood is a set of twelve short character pieces for solo piano, composed in 2000. The pieces are compact, direct and pedagogically oriented, while using contemporary sounds and gestures within an accessible musical language.

The cycle belongs to the long tradition of piano albums connected with childhood, memory and study. Its titles point toward scenes, voices and remembered images: a question, a quarrel, an old photograph, a field after war, stubbornness, shadows and prayer.

• Form Twelve character pieces.
• Duration Approximately 11 minutes.
• Forces Solo piano.

Hal Leonard describes the pieces as late beginner to early intermediate, with contemporary techniques and sounds made accessible to students, and notes their pedagogical relation to Schumann’s Album for the Young.

Within Auerbach’s piano catalogue, Images from Childhood stands as a compact teaching and recital cycle: intimate in scale, but connected to larger themes that recur throughout her work, including childhood, memory, shadow, prayer and the instability of remembered images.

Public links related to Images from Childhood. The clearest recording source found is Ksenia Nosikova’s recording on Auerbach: Piano Works. YouTube links include a complete user-uploaded performance and auto-generated album audio.