Teacher Lineage

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Rebecca Penneys

(Updated in 2010)

 

   
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Los Angeles, California
 
Sol Kaplan
 (1919 - 1990)
My mother's brother.
Only person to graduate Curtis in 3 areas:
Piano/Conducting/Composition;Vangerova/Reiner/Scalero
Same Curtis class w/Graffman, Bernstein, Foss, & Barber
Isabelle Vengerova (1877-1956)
Theodor Leschetizky [original Leszetycki] (1830-1915) in Vienna
Liszt (1811-1886)
Czerny (1791-1857) - Liszt and Leshetizky were students of Czerny
Victoria Front
Married to Theodore Front music editor.
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Istvan Thoman (1862-1940)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Aube Tzerko
  (1907 - 1995)
Schnabel's assistant in Germany & teacher of Leon Fleisher 1928
Artur Schnabel (1882-1951)
Theodor Leschetizky (1830-1915) and Franz Liszt 1811-1886)
Carl Czerny (1791-1857)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Arthur Rubinstein
       (1887 - 1982)
Karl Heinrich Barth (1847-1922) Berlin
Hans von Bulow (1830-1894) and Carl Tausig (1841-1871)
Friedrich Wieck (1785-1873) (Clara Schumann's father) & Franz
Liszt (1811-1886)
Leonard Stein
     (1916 - 2004)

Theory and composition teacher
Musicologist and Schoenberg's assistant
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Gregor Piatigorsky
        (1903 - 1976)
Cellist - chamber music



In Los Angeles, Aspen and New York City
 
Rosina Lhevinne
       (1880 - 1976)
Josef Lhévinne (1874-1944) Classmate of Rachmaninoff and Scriabin at Moscow Conservatoty
Vasily Ilyich Safonov (1852-1918)
Teodor Leszetycki (1830-1915) and Nikolai Zaremba (1821-1879)



In Los Angeles, Aspen and New York City
 
Rosina Lhevinne
       (1880 - 1976)
Josef Lhévinne (1874-1944) Classmate of Rachmaninoff and Scriabin at Moscow Conservatoty
Vasily Ilyich Safonov (1852-1918)
Teodor Leszetycki (1830-1915) and Nikolai Zaremba (1821-1879)



At Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
 
Gyorgy Sebok
     (1922 - 1999)
Product of Liszt Academy - started & staffed with Liszt's own students
Istvan Thoman (1860-1940) and Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Arnold Székely (1874-1958) Leo Weiner (1885-1960) Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Arnold Székely (1874-1958) - pupil of Istvan Thoman
Hans Koessler (1853-1926) was the composition teacher of Kodaly, Dohnanyi, Bartok and Leo Weiner.
Istvan Thoman was Bartok's piano teacher
Janos Starker
     (1924- )
Cellist - chamber music & piano
Josef Gingold
      (1924 -  )
Violinist - chamber music
Xannis Xenakis
     (1922 - 2001)

Composition
Gregor Piatigorsky
        (1903 - 1976)

Mernahem Pressler
        (1923 - )
Diagram used by permission © 2008 Eric Street, DMA

 
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