Teacher Lineage
Los Angeles, California
Sol Kaplan 1919-1990 – my mother’s brother who graduatefd Curtis in 3 areas:
- Piano – Vangerova
- Conducting – Reiner
- Composition – Scalero
Isabelle Vengerova 1877-1956
Theodor Leschetizky
- (Leszetycki) 1830-1915 Vienna
Liszt 1811-1886
Czerny 1791-1857
- Liszt, Leshetizky – Czerny
Beethoven 1770-1827
Victoria Front (deceased)
- married Theodore Front, 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
- 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
- Carl Tausig 1841-1871
Friedrich Wieck 1785-1873
- (Clara’s father)
- Franz Liszt 1811-1886
Leonard Stein 1916-2004
- Theory, composition
- Musicologist
- Schoenberg’s Assistant
- Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Gregor Piatigorsky 1903-1976
- Cellist – chamber music
Los Angeles, Aspen and New York City
Rosina Lhevinne 1880-1976
- Josef Lhévinne 1874-1944
- Vasily Ilyich Safonov 1852-1918
- Teodor Leszetycki 1830-1915
- Nikolai Zaremba 1821-1879
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Gyorgy Sebok 1922-1999
- Product of Liszt Academy
- Started staffed with Liszt’s students
- Istvan Thoman 1860-1940
- 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
- Composition teacher
- Kodaly, Dohnanyi, Bartok, Weiner
- Leo Weiner 1885-1960
- Major Sebok influence
- Istvan Thoman 1860-1940
- Bartok’s piano teacher
Janos Starker –1924- 2013
- Cellist – Chamber music, piano
Josef Gingold – 1909-1995
- Violinist – Chamber music
Xannis Xenakis – 1922-2001
- Composition
Menahem Pressler 1923 – See Pressler genealogy chart below. Diagram used by permission © 2008 Eric Street, DMA
