"A genre-dancing, virtuoso piece expressing the joyful temperament of a child captured by the musical and dance element. The lively and vivacious rhythm, elastic accents, the colorfulness of semitone tonal juxtapositions, shifts of single-high tonalities - all this is exciting, easy and joyful. And at the same time childishly simple, without the specific Italian sharpness, undoubtedly incomprehensible to Russian children."
(V. Delson, “Prokofiev’s Piano Works and Pianism”)