This article analyzes the role and importance of piano performance in music culture. The piano, with its unique melodic and dynamic capabilities, offers new perspectives and ways of expression in the performance of musical works. The article shows the history of piano performance, stages of development and its contribution to performance culture, and explores the influence of performers who used this instrument on art and culture. It also provides information on the spread, formation and development of music culture on a global scale through piano performance.

Piano, performance, music culture

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