With the continuous improvement of China's economic level, more and more people begin to pay attention to the improvement of the spiritual level, which also provides a good foundation for the development of music. Among them, music philosophy can greatly enrich the content and connotation of music performance. Therefore, it is of great significance to explore the influence of music philosophy on music performance. In this paper, through searching and reading a large number of monographs and literature, we collate, analyse and study the data of Chinese and foreign researches on music philosophy, listeners‘ scores on music performance and the influence of music performance on listeners’ emotions, so as to understand and grasp the research problems more comprehensively and correctly, and further explore these problems on the basis of the existing research results, and then analyse the influence of music philosophy on music performance in combination with the importance of music philosophy in piano performance, and finally summarise the influence of music philosophy on music performance in the hope of promoting the high-quality development of China's philosophy and music performance. piano performance, analyse the influence of music philosophy on music performance, and finally summarize the influence of music philosophy on music performance in the hope of promoting the high-quality development of music philosophy and music performance in China.