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University of California, San Diego
Yale (while visiting professor)
Heinrich Schütz, often called the "father of German music", [405] composer of what is traditionally regarded as the "first German opera" Dafne (1627, lost), and transmitter of the Italian style of his teacher Giovanni Gabrieli to Germany had many pupils, including many of the musicians who sang or played under him as Kapellmeister in composition.
(For Solomon, see Solomon Cutner)
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Born in Hinckley, Illinois, he grew up in Abingdon, Illinois, and received his B.M. degree from Knox College and his M.M. degree from the Chicago Musical College, where he studied with Maurice Aronson, Alexander Raab, and Lillian Powers.
26. Timothy Baxter, while studying with Priaulx, and now Professor of Composition at the RAM ... The eminent Australian composer Nigel Butterley, who studied with Priaulx, wrote: Michael Tippett recommended Priaulx Rainier to me, describing her as the best teacher in his opinion in London.
She studied in England with Arthur Alexander, Louis Kentner, John Nowell, and Priaulx Rainier.
However, his teachers at the Royal Academy had been William Alwyn and Priaulx Rainier, whose bracingly tough, Stravinskian outlook helped to reorient his musical thinking, imbuing it with an enduring muscularity, grit and tensile strength.
Tippett suggested he work with South African composer Priaulx Rainier (1903-1986). She mentored Small as he composed a number of instrumental pieces, songs, and a large orchestral piece.
François-Joseph Gossec, a native of France, and a pupil of Rameau, was born in the year 1733.
A similarly sponsored review of the Generation (1737) was written by Thérèse Deshayes, Rameau's pupil and the bride of Rameau's patron, La Pouplinière (Deshayes 1737; Rameau CTW 3, pp. xxi-xxii).
Marsh, Roger (1949- ) English composer. He studied at York University with Bernard Rands and has been lecturer there from 1988.
Karola Obermüller wurde 1977 in Darmstadtr geboren ... Seit September 2003 studiert sie dort bei Komponisten wie Bernard Rands, Harrison Birtwistle, Julian Anderson, Chaya Czernowin und Magnus Lindberg.[Karola Obermüller was born in Darmstadt in 1977 ... Since September 2003, she has been studying with composers such as Bernard Rands, Harrison Birtwistle, Julian Anderson, Chaya Czernowin and Magnus Lindberg.]
Vlado Perlemuter, who studied with Ravel...
Germaine Tailleferre studied orchestration under Maurice Ravel.
Cowen, Frederic Hymen (1852-1935) ... In 1865 he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory, under Louis Plaidy, Ignaz Moscheles, Carl Reinecke, Ernst Richter and Moritz Hauptmann.
Haynes, Walter Battison (1859-1900) ... With the benefit of a Mozart Scholarship, he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory under Salomon Jadassohn and Carl Reinecke (from 1878).
After the family settled in Leipzig in 1868, he enrolled at the conservatory, where he studied piano with Ignaz Moscheles, theory with Ernst Friedrich Richter, and composition with Carl Reinecke.
Alexandre Mottu... ...dîplômé du Conservatoire de Genève (1902), il paracheva ses études auprès d'Alfred Reisenauer, à Leipzig, et Teresa Carreno, à Berlin.
Di Donato, Vincenzo (Roma 1887). Compositore e direttore d'orchestra. Studiò e si diplomò in composizione (con Ottorino Respighi) e in violoncello (con Luigi Forino) al Conservatorio musicale di Roma.
He studied the cello with Arturo Bonucci at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna and composition with Respighi in Rome.
Kahn, Robert, composer and teacher, b. Mannheim, Germany, 1865. A pupil of Lachner and of Rheinberger, he began his career as a concert pianist.
Cowen, Frederic Hymen (1852-1935) ... In 1865 he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory, under Louis Plaidy, Ignaz Moscheles, Carl Reinecke, Ernst Richter and Moritz Hauptmann.
Farmer, John, (b. Nottingham, 16 August 1835; d. Oxford, 17 July 1901). Composer and teacher....he studied for three years at the Leipzig conservatory with Ignaz Moscheles, Louis Plaidy, Moritz Hauptmann, and Ernst Friedrich Richter,...
O'Leary, Arthur (1834-1919) … Able to study due to the patronage of Wyndham Gould, firstly in Dublin (1844-1846) and at Leipzig Conservatory (from 1847) under Louis Plaidy, Ernst Richter, Ignaz Moscheles, Moritz Hauptmann and Julius Rietz.
...he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory with Plaidy and Moscheles as well as Hauptmann, E.F.E. Richter and Papperitz (harmony and composition).
Togni's eerste vioolleraar was Andries van Riemsdijk (1848-1904).[Togni's first violin teacher was André van Riemsdijk (1848-1904).]
Abraham Troostwijk werd den 15n Dec. 1863 te Zwolle geboren. Daar ook kreeg hij zijn opleiding als violist van André van Riemsdijk, een leerling van Léonard te Parijs. [Abraham Troostwijk was born on December 15th. Born in Zwolle in 1863. There he also received his training as a violinist from André van Riemsdijk, a student of Léonard in Paris.]
(Gerke), Anton Avgustovich (1812–1870). Pianist, teacher, and composer. Born in Pulin (now Chervono-Armeysk), Zhitomir district, on 28 July 1812, son of the Polish violinist Avgust Herke, he studied under John Field, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Ignaz Moscheles, and Ferdinand Ries and was acquainted with Franz Liszt, Sigismond Thalberg, and Clara Schumann.
Edward Francis Rimbault was the son of Stephen Francis Rimbault, ... and received his first instruction in music from his father, but afterwards became the pupil of Samuel Wesley.
...but decided to study the piano independently, first with Stephen Francis Rimbault and then, from 1826 to 1831, with Charles Neate, a friend of Beethoven.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
...and composition with Shostakovich and Steinberg at the Leningrad Cons. (1940-41; 1945-47), where she pursued postgraduate training with G. Rimsky-Korsakov (1947-50)
William Hugh Albright ... He studied composition with Ross Lee Finney and Leslie Bassett at Michigan, with George Rochberg while he was at the University of Pennsylvania...
Mr Howard Hadley... ...became a student at the Royal College of Music in 1892, studying the pianoforte under Frederic Cliffe, organ under W. S. Hoyte, and harmony, etc., under Higgs, Gladstone and Rockstro.
...Weinzweig began introducing into his music... a variety of twentieth-century techniques and approaches, some acquired during his graduate studies in 1937–38 with Bernard Rogers at the Eastman School of Music.
Italian composer. From 1815 to 1822 he studied in Milan, with Rolla (violin) and Asioli (composition) among his teachers.
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: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)Fürstenau, Kaspar (1772-1819), a German flutist and composer. At first he studied oboe playing with his father. After he was orphaned, Anton Romberg took care of him and taught him to play the bassoon, but was more interested in the flute.
Thomas Roseingrave (1690/91–1766), organist and composer,... Pupils flocked to him, among them Henry Carey, John Worgan, Jonathan Martin (who sometimes deputized for him), and John Christopher Smith.
Bauer studied counterpoint and form in Berlin with Paul Ertel in 1910-11, and composition in New York City during World War I with Walter Henry Rothwell.
Luke Bedford was born in 1978 and studied composition at the Royal College of Music with Edwin Roxburgh and Simon Bainbridge, following a Foundation Scholarship.
David studied at The Royal College of Music from 1990-94, taking joint-first study in Guitar with Charles Ramirez and Composition with Edwin Roxburgh.
Richard Causton studied with Param Vir, Roger Marsh, Jeremy Dale Roberts and Edwin Roxburgh,...
In 1777 he was named choirmaster at the small Norman town of Sées; two years later he spent several months in Paris as assistant choirmaster at the church of the Holy Innocents and studied harmony and composition with the abbé Nicolas Roze (1745-1819).
Sinopoli, Giuseppe (1946-2001). Teachers: Rubin de Cervin, Ernesto; Stockhausen, Karlheinz.
He studied with Felix Blumenfeld, who had been taught by the legendary Anton Rubinstein.
Teresa Carreño travelled to England... ...playing also in the Queen's Concert Rooms of Hanover Square where Anton Rubinstein came to hear her; from then on he became her mentor and teacher.
William C. E. Seeboeck (1859-1907) … A native of Vienna, Seeboeck studied theory with the Beethoven scholar Gustav Nottebohm and piano with the Russian pianist Anton Rubinstein;
...he took lessons at the Hochschule für Musik with Ernst Rudorff and studied theory and composition with Friedrich Kiel.
...Salvatore and Strozzi were pupils of Giovanni Maria Sabino, noted as organist and teacher.
Prout, Ebenezer, B.A., born at Oundle, Northamptonshire, March 1, 1835, graduated at London, 1854. He studied the pianoforte under Charles Salaman.
After the death of Manini in 1786, Hague moved to London and studied with Johann Salomon and Benjamin Cooke.
Dobson moved to London at age 18 on a scholarship to study composition under Timothy Salter, Theo Verby and George Benjamin, at the Royal College of Music.
As a young boy Provenzale may have studied with Giovanni Salvatore and Erasmo Bartoli at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, close to his family home in Naples.
Vincent Persichetti, American composer, educator and author, studied the piano with Olga Samaroff and composition with Paul Nordoff at the Philadelphia Conservatory, and conducting with Fritz Reiner at the Curtis Institute.
Harry Adaskin was born in Riga, Latvia and studied with von Kunits and Arthur Hartmann in Toronto, Leon Sametini in Chicago and with Marcel Chailley in Paris.
As young Guila's talent became more apparent, mother and five-year old daughter moved to Chicago to pursue violin studies with Leon Sametini, a pupil of Ysaÿe.
Menges (1893-1976) studied with Leon Sametini and Emile Sauret but was principally a student of Leopold Auer in St. Petersburg.
Mr. Reveultas is a pupil of Otakar Ševčík, Leon Sametini, and Leopold Auer.
He took up the violin after the family had moved to Chicago, where he studied under Leon Sametini, a noted violin teacher,...
Rolande Falcinelli studierte ab 1932 am traditionsreichen Pariser Conservatoire bei Abel Estyle (Klavierbegleitung), Marcel Samuel-Rousseau (Harmonielehre), Simone Plé-Caussade (Kontrapunkt und Fuge) und Henri Busser...
Alaleona, Domenico (Dr.). Italian. Studied under Renzi (organ) and De Sanctis.
Parelli, Attilio (b. Monteleone d'Orvieto, Perugia, May 31, 1874), Italian conductor; pupil of de Sanctis at Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome...
Setaccioli, Giacomo (b. Corneto Tarquinia, Dec. 8, 1868—d. Siena, Dec. 5, 1925). Italian composer and teacher; pupil of de Sanctis (composition) and Franceschini (flute) at Santa Cecilia Academy, Rome; ...
Having grown up in a family with little musical background, Tippett received no encouragement to become a musician, although he was given piano lessons as a child … In 1923 he enrolled in the Royal College of Music, where he studied composition with Charles Wood and Charles Herbert Kitson, piano with Aubin Raymar, and conducting with Malcolm Sargent and Adrian Boult.
Bantock, Granville (1868–1946) Bantock was taught firstly by Gordon Saunders at Trinity College and then at the RAM by Frederick Corder.
Langran, James, son of Mr Joseph Langran; born in London, November 10, 1835; pupil of J. Baptiste Calkin, Dr Gordon Saunders, and Dr J. F. Bridge; ...
William Henry Reed (Frome, Somerset, 29 July 1876–Dumfries, Scotland, 2 July 1942 while adjudicating) studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Émile Sauret and Frederick Corder.
He moved to Paris where his teachers at the conservatoire were Eugene Sauzay and Martin Marsick...
The king's daughter, Princess Maria Barbara, became Scarlatti's pupil in Lisbon...
Part Two (pp. 85-98) discusses the reign of Fernando VI and includes information on him and his wife Maria Barbara, Scarlatti's pupil.
Dianda, Hilda, Argentine composer; b.13 Apr 1925, Córdoba, Prov. of Córdoba, Argentina. She studied in Buenos Aires with Honorio Siccardi and, in Europe, with Cian Francesco Malipiero and Hermann Scherchen.
...Carl Friedrich Zöllner … As a young man he had studied at the Thomas School under Schicht,...
...from the age of 14 he attended the Ferenc Liszt Conservatory where he studied Cello with Adolf Schiffer and studied composition with Zoltán Kodály.
Of Popper's pupils, the best known are Arnold Földesy, Jenö Kerpély, Mici Lukács, Ludwig Lebell and Adolf Schiffer - the teacher of Janos Starker.
...studied also under Aloys Schmitt, and theory under Kessler and Anton André.
She studied at the Rubin Israel Academy of Music, Tel Aviv University (BA 1982) with Abel Ehrlich and Yitzhak Sadai, in Berlin with Dieter Schnebel (1983–4)...
Walter Goehr, was a composer and conductor, and a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg.
Hans Swarowsky is Viennese, although he was born in Budapest. He studied musical theory with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern and conducting with Richard Strauss...
Walter B. Rogers was born in Delphi, Ind. in 1865 ... According to Clarke (1934), Rogers studied violin at the Cincinnati Conservatory under Schradieck and composed several brass ensembles while there...
Kanitz studied in Vienna with Richard Heuberger (1912-14) and Franz Schreker (1914-20).
...and took up serious composition in his early twenties, studying first with Mátyás Seiber, then with Anthony Milner and Alexander Goehr at Morley College, London, and later with Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood.
Mark-Anthony Turnage, who studied with Oliver Knussen and Gunther Schuller...
John Samuel Charles Possin ... Possin was born at Berlin in 1753. He studied composition with Kirnberger's pupil Johann Abraham Peter Schulz...
Franklin Taylor was an English pianist who had trained in Leipzig with Moscheles, and then in Paris with Clara Schumann.
The elder sister of Alice and Adela, Mathilde Verne studied piano with Franklin Taylor and later Clara Schumann.
Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a German composer, conductor, and pianist in the Middle Romantic Era. He studied under Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt.
... covered with the dust which customarily pervades historical archives, but they had the misfortune to be superseded by that man who, with a large measure of justification, has been termed the father of German music: Heinrich Schutz.
LaLiberté, Alfred — Pianist, Composer. Born in St. Johns, Que., Canada, 1882. Education: Montreal, Berlin and Brussels; pupil of Teresa Carreno and Scriabin.
British composer. Born in Bombay, Elias began composing at the age of seven, moving to England in 1963. In 1966 he began studies at the Royal College of Music with Humphrey Searle and Bernard Stevens...
He studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Jeremy Dale Roberts and Humphrey Searle.
He was born in Lancashire in 1932 and read history at Oxford. He then studied with William Lloyd Webber, Anthony Milner, Iain Hamilton and Mátyás Seiber.
Besides the instruction from Hiller (composition) and Isidor Seiss (pianoforte),..
They met at the Royal College of Music where Kevin was studying piano/composition with Peter Wallfisch and Joseph Horowitz and Steven studied piano performance with Phyllis Sellick and Peter Katin.
...he moved... to New York City where he studied the accordion with John Serry and later joined the staff at the Serry Studio...
Roy Appey was a student at John Serry music studio...
Vincenzo di Donato, un des meilleurs élèves de Giacomo Setaccioli.
Giacomo Setaccioli, compositore italiano (Corneto Tarquinia, 1868 - Siena, 1925). Fu insegnante di Vittorio Gui, a Santa Cecilia. [Giacomo Setaccioli, Italian composer (Corneto Tarquinia, 1868 - Siena, 1925). He was Vittorio Gui's teacher in Santa Cecilia.]
Pádua, Newton de Menezes, Brazilian composer, conductor, teacher, and cellist; b. 3 Nov 1894, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d. 2 Jun 1966, Rio de Janeiro ... From 1912 to 1914, he went to Rome, Italy, to study cello with Luigi Forino and harmony with Giacomo Setaccioli.
From the age of twelve he studied at the Chicago Music College with Leon Sametini, a student of Ševčík and Ysaÿe...
Tatiana Chudova enrolled in the class of the dean Soviet composer Yuri Shaporin at the Moscow Conservatoire.
Harold Edwin Darke … His professors at the college were Walter Parratt (organ), Herbert Sharpe (piano), Charles Wood (theory), and, later Frederick Bridge and C.V. Stanford for composition.
...Kathleen Long (a pupil of Herbert Sharpe)...
He studied piano under Herbert Sharpe and G. P. Moore, organ under Parratt, and composition under Parry and Standford.
Artur Malawski, a prominent composer and conductor, graduated from the Kraków Conservatory of Music (studies under J. Chmielewski) with distinction as a violin virtuoso in 1928, and from the Warsaw Conservatory of Music with diplomas in composition (class of Kazimierz Sikorski) and conducting (class of Walerian Bierdiajew) in 1939.
Between 1932 and 1936, Panufnik studied music theory and composition under Kazimierz Sikorski at the Warsaw Music Conservatory...
Among his pupils were Corelli and G.M. Casini.
Overlooked generally is the significance of Palestrina on Corelli's works, an influence that can be traced to Corelli's contrapuntal studies with Matteo Simonelli (c. 1618-1696), a well-known Roman composer and singer in the Cappella Sistina.
In 1955–1960, Myroslav Skoryk studied at the Lviv State Conservatory named after Mykola Lysenko under the guidance of professors Stanislav Lyudkevych (music theory), Roman Simovych and Adam Soltys (composition).
He was born at Horazdowitz, Bohemia, on March 22, 1852 ... At 14 he entered the Prague Con-servatory. He remained there four years, studying under Sitt and Bennewitz.
Yevgen Fedorovych Stankovych was born on September 19th, 1942 ... He studied ... with Boris Lyatoshynskyi and Myroslav Skoryk at Kyiv State P. Tshaikovskyi Consernatoire (1965-1970).
Steven studied piano performance at the Royal College of Music between 1990 and 1995 with Phyllis Sellick and Yonty Solomon.
Miroslav Skoryk was born on July 13, 1938, in Lviv; he studied composition with Stanyslav Lyudkevych and A. Soltys at the Lviv Conservatoire...
Yevgen Fedorovych Stankovych was born on September 19th, 1942 ... He studied composition with Adam Soltys at Lviv State M. Lysenko Conservatoire (1962-1963) and then with Boris Lyatoshynskyi and Myroslav Skoryk at Kyiv State P. Tshaikovskyi Consernatoire (1965-1970).
...Spitta trained the next generation of German scholars, including Max Friedlaender, Max Seiffert, Peter Wagner, and Johannes Wolf.
Hubert Ries (1802–1886), violinist and composer, youngest son of Franz Anton Ries, and student of Louis Spohr's.
Alcock, Walter Galpin, English organist and church composer, born Edenbridge, Dec. 29, 1861. After studying under Sullivan and Stainer, he became assistant organist at Westminster Abbey...
Studied from 1876 at the National Training School of Music where his teachers were Franklin Taylor, Ebenezer Prout, Arthur Sullivan and John Stainer.
Barton was an original scholar (1883) at the RCM. He studied under J.F. Barnett and C.V. Stanford...
Composer and teacher. Bell was educated at St Alban's Grammar School, then studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Frederick Corder, Charles Stanford and others.
He studied the organ with Parratt and composition with Stanford at the RCM...
Farrar had studied composition with Stanford at the Royal College of Music...
Forsyth had studied under Parry and Stanford at the RCM and played viola with the QHO before emigrating to New York in 1914.
Fryer, Herbert. B., London, 1877; pianist and composer: studied with Tobias Matthay, and later with Busoni and Stanford;...
...in January, 1905, went to the Royal College of Music, studying under Parratt, Bridge, Stanford, Charles Wood, and Marmaduke Barton,...
...Rootham also studied composition under Stanford and organ with Sir Walter Parratt at the Royal College of Music.
...and later became one of the first female composition pupils of the formidable Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924).
...which provided for composition studies with Sir Arthur Sullivan, C. V. Stanford, and Frederick Bridge...(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
It was later arranged so that it could be played with or without orchestra, by Joseph Diettenhofer, a pupil of Steffan.
Dr. A. C. Mackenzie... ...born at Edinburgh on 22nd August 1847; ... in 1857 went to Germany, and continued his musical studies at Schwartzburg-Sondershausen under W. Ulrich and Eduard Stein.
He was a student of Steinberg, Sokolov, Liapunov, and Nicolai at the St. Petersburg Cons.
Shostakovich's composition teacher, Maximilian Steinberg (1883–1946), was a disciple and son-in-law of Rimsky-Korsakov.
...she studied at the Conservatoire proper under Shostakovich and Maximilian Steinberg...
Her professors of composition, Vasili Kalafati and Maximilian Steinberg, were amongst the best teachers in St Petersburg.
British composer. Born in Bombay, Elias began composing at the age of seven, moving to England in 1963. In 1966 he began studies at the Royal College of Music with Humphrey Searle and Bernard Stevens...
(Joseph) Gordon Saunders, pupil of Elizabeth Stirling, W. Rea, E.J. Hopkins and H. Litolff, was a co-founder of Trinity College London and a teacher of Granville Bantock. He published many piano teaching pieces and a number of organ pieces.
...three other Stolyarsky pupils were also prizewinners: Goldstein, Gilels and Mikhail Fichtenholz,...
Oistrakh, David Fyodorovich (1908–1974) ... he studied under Pyotr Stolyarsky from the age of five until his graduation from the Odessa Conservatory (playing both violin and viola) in 1926.
He studied physics at the University of Florence and music at the Salzburg Mozarteum and in Munich with Richard Strauss.
'Reinterpretation Technique' (Umdeutungstechnik) was Strauss's own term, as transmitted to Dinerstein by Arnold Franchetti, a pupil of Strauss in the 1930s...
Steeped in the authentic 'Classical tradition (he was born in Vienna in 1905 and was joint conductor with Josef Krips at the State Theatre, Karlsruhe, 1927-1933), his concerts reflected the richness of this repertoire, with a fine feeling for the music of Richard Strauss whom at one time he studied under.
Hans Swarowsky (1899-1975), Austrian conductor, who studied composition with Schoenberg and Webern, and conducting with Weingartner and Richard Strauss.
Born to Jewish parents in Hannover, his career in Germany included studies under Max Reger, Robert Teichmüller, Richard Strauss, and Hans Pfitzner.
He also took a few lessons with Stravinsky.
Alcock, Walter Galpin, English organist and church composer, born Edenbridge, Dec. 29, 1861. After studying under Sullivan and Stainer, he became assistant organist at Westminster Abbey...
He continued his studies in conducting in Vienna with Hans Swarowsky.
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