A história da harpa em Alagoas e Maria Pia Toso: narrativas (auto)biográficas

Abstract

The present research is a (auto)biographical narratives about the trajectory of the teacher Maria Pia Toso, building the history of the harp in Alagoas and the social inclusion of the instrument in the state. This work aims to develop the whole history of the teacher, involving the harp, her arrival in Brazil and her cultural contribution to Alagoas, her music teachers, her memories and the teaching of the harp in the state. In this work I pretend describe the music trajectory of her’s, the approach with the harp, the conductors who conducted her, the academic life and the achievements with music, the renunciations, the disappointments, the hard study to reach the place she’s arrived, the encouragement she has from family, friends, husband, in which music schools she has studied and some of her orchestral stories. I will also narrate my experience with the teacher during my lessons, all the tension in them, the hard study, her European methodology.