Roberto Szidon as a piano teacher: biography in music education in a sociological perspective

Authors

  • Antonio Ferreira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/OUV-v19n1a2023-66158

Keywords:

Roberto Szidon, Instrument teacher, Piano teaching, Biographical Method

Abstract

This article discusses the uses of biography in music education from a sociological perspective, taking as an example an ongoing doctoral research that deals with the performance of the pianist Roberto Szidon (1941-2011) as a piano teacher. As a source of data, interviews with former students and documentary sources will be used. Roberto Szidon worked as a teacher, in the 1990s and early 2000s, at the academies of Hannover (Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien) and Düsseldorf (Robert-Schumann-Hochschule), in Germany, and in numerous master classes in Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Greece and Germany. The initiative of approaching Roberto Szidon's biography in the field of music education may allow for a reflection on the pedagogical-musical experience with this pianist/teacher. The biography, in this case, allows former students to reflect on the experiences they had with the teacher, and to recover, through reports, ways of teaching and their effects on each one's musical and professional life.

Published

2023-08-29

Issue

Section

Dossiê Educação Musical e/no cotidiano: experiências, dilemas, perspectivas

How to Cite

Roberto Szidon as a piano teacher: biography in music education in a sociological perspective. ouvirOUver, [S. l.], v. 19, n. 1, 2023. DOI: 10.14393/OUV-v19n1a2023-66158. Disponível em: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/ouvirouver/article/view/66158. Acesso em: 13 aug. 2025.