JAPANESE PIANO TEACHERS

Japanese built up own position in the world of Western, especially European music for hundred years. Fast growth apperes escecially in piano performance and its related piano school, methodology and pedagogy. This thesis deals with history of Japanese piano pedagogy and its representatives, who affected such a big growth. The big anxiety for Europe dominated in Japan about hundred years ago and Japanese started to take over Westeren music uncritically. Japanese started just to imitate Western music, without experiences of real artistic performance and thought of its bases and history. Hard work and diligence put Japanese near by real Westeren music before the Secound World War, but after that piano pedagogy directed to the different way. Anxiety for success in the competition caused to exaggeration of mechanical finger training, in consequence of that many non-musical pianists came up. Today Japanese make efforts to solve those problems and positive outcome apperes