The process of gaining pianist abilities by students depends a great deal on personal and music
qualities of their teachers. The author of the article proves that it is the teacher’s attitude that
decides on whether music is likely to become the student’s subject of self-realization and his/her
further life aims. She outlines and discusses the basic assumptions of didactics and the teaching
process, such as teaching principles, forms of work, methods considered to be indispensable in
the process of shaping the music sensitivity and their influence on sound quality, playing technique,
interpretation of a music work and its general artistic form