James Heuser Piano Teacher Lineage

Karol Mukuli

Isidore Philip

Rosina Lhévinne

W. A. Mozart

I am so grateful for my teachers!

This page is not about me tooting my own horn, calling attention to my teacher lineages that include well known and influential musicians. Rather, this lineage of musician teachers fills me with a great sense of responsibility to my students to provide the best music lessons at the piano I can.

If you can play the piano, or any other instrument please be sure and THANK your teacher! It is wonderful what can be passed down generation to generation concerning the art of making music at the piano. Gratitude also goes to my very first piano teacher, Mary Elizabeth Land, of Jacksonville, Florida. Her faith in me, her patience, and her dedication to the art of music was so very influential in my youth. I also want to thank my grandmother, Grace Marcellus. Her spontaneity and joie de vivre as a church organist greatly influenced me. And my uncle, John Marcellus, trombonist extraordinaire was a living example of being a happy day to day musician who is one of the best trombone players in the world.

The first and foremost things my teachers and family have all provided me with, is an unerring love of music! Being a musician, making it an essential part of your life that never leaves you. Always coaxing you forward to give unceasingly with the love of the heart the best of yourself as music.

KEY: Below in the lineage charts, the mark ">" equals one generation. The mark "+" equals five generations. Images below courtesy of Wikipedia or personages own websites.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Theodor Ritter

Theodore Leschetizsky

Mieczyslaw Horszowski

Piano Teacher Lineage

of James Heuser

*Mary Elizabeth Land (1970-1975)

(deceased: private piano teacher)

>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

>Julliard School

>>Adele Marcus

>>Josef Lhévinne

>>>Vasilly Safonov
>>>>Nikolai Zaremba
>>>>Louis Brassin
>>>>>Ignaz Mocheles
>+Antonio Salieri

>>Artur Schnabel

      >>>Theodore Leschetizky
   >>>>Carl Czerny
   >>>>>Ludwig v. Beethoven

>+Christian G. Neefe

>>+Johann A. Hiller
>>>+G. A. Homilius
>>>>+J. S. Bach

++Johann C. Bach

>+J G Albrechtsberger

>>+Melk Abbey (Church)

Gabriel Faure

Leonidas Lipovetsky

Arnold Schoenberg

Antonio Salieri

*Robert Brownlee (1981-84; 1985-87)
(Professor of Piano (deceased): University of Houston)
>John Elvin (Oberlin Conservatory)
>>Harold Bauer
>>>Ignacy Jan Paderewski
>>>>Theodore Leschetizky

>>>>>Carl Czerny
>+Ludwig van Beethoven
>Nadia Boulanger
>>Louie Vierne
>>>César Franck
>>Alexandre Guilmant
>>Gabriel Fauré
>>>Camille Saint-Saëns

   >Isidor Philip
>>Georges Mathias
   >>>Frédéric Chopin
>>Théodore Ritter
   >>>Franz Liszt
>>Camille Saint-Saens
   >>>Stephen Heller
>>>>Carl Czerny
>>>>>Ludwig v. Beethoven

>+Christian G. Neefe
>>+Johann A. Hiller
>>>+G. A. Homilius
>>>>+J. S. Bach
++Johann C. Bach

>+J G Albrechtsberger
>>+Melk Abbey (Church)