Quality and professional piano education has always been the groundwork of musical improvement, a complete development of the piano playing skill and the arousal of musical (as well as wider artistic) interest of a young pianist. This work provides an insight into a specific aspect of the mentioned relatively extensive pedagogical topic, where the written didactic fundamentals of music education will be emphasised in relation to topics such as musical performance, teaching methods or teachers as key persons of the educational process. Content, methods and teaching units of nine Croatian piano beginner books (as many as published so far) will be reviewed and compared. Furthermore, the changes and development of the initial stage of piano learning from the late nineteenth century to modern times will be analyzed and critically reviewed. From a comparative aspect primarily, the short fifth chapter will be devoted to a brief chronological overview of the most important foreign piano beginner books used in Croatia. The concluding chapter brings the main arguments of this research, as well as the author’s opinion and closing words.