Joseph Marx
Grace Marcellus
Georges Mathias
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 is 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.
Karol Mukuli
Piano Teacher Lineage
of James Heuser
Eugene Pridonoff
Robert Brownlee
W. A. Mozart
Rudolph Serkin
Arnold Schoenberg
Lillian Steuber
Gabriel Faure
Camille Saint-Saens
Josef Lhévinne
Alexandre Guilmant
Harold Bauer
Cesar Franck
Egon Petri
John Elvin
James Heuser
Theodore Leschetizsky
*Leonidas Lipovetsky (1977-80)
(Retired Professor: Florida State University)
>Rosina Lhévinne (Julliard School)
>>Josef Lhévinne
>>Vasilly Safonov
>>>Nikolai Zaremba
>>>Louis Brassin
>>>>Ignaz Mocheles
>>>>>Antonio Salieri
>>>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)
Christian Gottlob Neefe
Antonio Salieri
Rosina Lhévinne
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger
Louis Vierne
Franz Liszt
*Eugene Pridonoff (1976-77)
(Formerly Arizona State University where he was my teacher, Emeritus Professor Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music)
>Lillian Steuber
>>Egon Petrie
>>Harold Bauer
>>>I. J. Paderewski
>>>>T. Leschetizky
>>>>>C. Czerny
>+Ludwig van Beethoven, (et. al.)
>>Josef Lhévinne
>>>Vasilly Safonov
>>>>Nikolai Zaremba
>>>>Louis Brassin
>>>>>Ignaz Mocheles
>+Antonio Salieri
>>Emil von Sauer
>>>Nicolai Rubenstein
>>>Franz Liszt
>Mieczyslaw Horszowski
>>Mrs. Horszowski (his mother)
>>>Karol Mikuli
>>>>Frederic Chopin
>>Theodore Leschetizky
>>>Carl Czerny
>>>>Ludwig van Beethoven (et. al.)
>Rudolph Serkin
>>Richard Robert
>>>Julius Epstein
>>>Franz Krenn
>>>>Ignaz von Seyfried
>>>>>W. A. Mozart
>>Joseph Marx
>>Arnold Schoenberg
*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)
Theodor Ritter
Isidore Philip
Stephen Heller
Emil von Sauer
John Marcellus
Ignaz Moscheles
Leonidas Lipovetsky
Ludwig van Beethoven
Carl Czerny
Louis Brassin
Frederic Chopin
Mary Elizabeth Land
Mieczyslaw Horszowski
Nadia Boulanger
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Vasily Safonov
*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)