James Heuser Piano Teacher Lineage

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

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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)