Margit Haider-Dechant (born 5 May 1952[1]) is an Austrian concert pianist, musicologist and music educator.
She then studied with Leonard Hokanson in Frankfurt and Vitaly Margulis in Freiburg im Breisgau.
In 2005, she became professor for piano at the Anton Bruckner Private University and was awarded a doctorate in philosophy in 2009 following her dissertation entitled Joseph Woelfl-Werkverzeichnis.
6 in D major by Nicholas Cook from sketches by Ludwig van Beethoven in the arrangement by Hermann Dechant was published by the later in 2015[3] and premiered in Bonn.
Haider-Dechant is President of the International Joseph Woelfl Society (IJWG), which she co-founded in 2011, and Chairman of the Joseph-Woelfl-Gesellschaft Bonn.