List of music students by teacher: C to F
This is part of a list of students of music, organized by teacher.
C[edit]
Pasquale Cafaro[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Cafaro (1716–1787) studied with teachers including Lorenzo Fago.
John Cage[edit]
this teacher's teachers
- Beth Anderson[2][3]
- Dawn Avery
- George Brecht
- Dubravko Detoni
- Robert Ellis Dunn
- Al Hansen
- Dick Higgins[4]
- Toshi Ichiyanagi
- Ben Johnston [pupils][5][6][7]
- Allan Kaprow
- Jackson Mac Low
- Margaret Leng Tan
- Richard Maxfield [pupils]
- Hugh Merrill
- Relly Raffman
- Richard Rijnvos
- Dorothea Rockburne
- Christian Wolff[8][9]
Antonio Caldara[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Caldara (c. 1670–1736) studied with teachers including Giovanni Legrenzi.
Faustino Camisani[edit]
Conrado del Campo[edit]
Ettore Campogalliani[edit]
André Campra[edit]
Maria Canals i Cendrós[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Cendrós (1914–2010) studied with teachers including Lluís Millet and Ricardo Viñes.
Christian Cannabich[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Cannabich (1731–1798) studied with teachers including Niccolò Jommelli, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, and Johann Stamitz.
Lucien Capet[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Capet (1873–1928) studied with teachers including Jean-Pierre Maurin.
Michele Carafa[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Carafa (1787–1872) studied with teachers including Francesco Ruggi.
Cornelius Cardew[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Cardew (1936–1981) studied with teachers including Goffredo Petrassi and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Clive Carey[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Carey (1883–1968) studied with teachers including Jean de Reszke and Charles Villiers Stanford.
Henry Carey[edit]
Giacomo Carissimi[edit]
Gaetano Carpani[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Carpani () studied with teachers including Orazio Benevoli and Alessandro Scarlatti.
Ambrosio Carreño[edit]
Teresa Carreño[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Carreño (1853–1917) studied with teachers including Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Georges Mathias, and Anton Rubinstein.
Elliott Carter[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Carter (1908–2012) studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger, Edward Burlingame Hill, Gustav Holst, and Walter Piston.
Robert Casadesus[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Casadesus (1899–1972) studied with teachers including Louis Diémer.
Alfredo Casella[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Casella (1883–1947) studied with teachers including Gabriel Fauré.
John Casken[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Casken (1949-) studied with teachers including John Joubert, Peter Dickinson, and Andrzej Dobrowolski.
Aaron Cassidy[edit]
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco[edit]
Charles-Simon Catel[edit]
Georges Caussade[edit]
Richard Causton[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Causton (1971-) studied with teachers including Jeremy Dale Roberts, Roger Marsh, Edwin Roxburgh, and Param Vir.
José Cayetano Carreño[edit]
Maurizio Cazzati[edit]
Sergiu Celibidache[edit]
Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský[edit]
Ignacio Cervantes[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Cervantes (1847–1905) studied with teachers including Charles-Valentin Alkan, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Antoine François Marmontel, and Nicolás Ruiz Espadero.
Beniamino Cesi[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Cesi (1845–1907) studied with teachers including Sigismond Thalberg.
Joel Chadabe[edit]
George Whitefield Chadwick[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Chadwick (1854–1931) studied with teachers including Salomon Jadassohn and Josef Rheinberger.
Henri Challan[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Challan (1910–1977) studied with teachers including Henri Büsser and Jean Gallon.
Evan Chambers[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Chambers (born 1963) studied with teachers including William Albright, Leslie Basset, Burton Beerman, Marilyn Shrude, Nicholas Thorne, and George Wilson.
Jacques Champion de Chambonnières[edit]
Claude Champagne[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Champagne (1891–1965) studied with teachers including Alexis Contant, André Gedalge, [[List of music students by teacher: C to F#Raoul Laparra Charles|Raoul Laparra Charles]], and Koechlin .
- Jocelyne Binet
- Lydia Boucher
- François Brassard
- Isabelle Delorme [pupils]
- Jean Deslauriers
- Orpha-F. Deveaux [pupils]
- Serge Garant [pupils]
- Rhené Jaque
- Roger Matton
- Pierre Mercure
- François Morel
- Clermont Pépin
- Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux
- Georges Savaria [pupils]
- Robert Turner
- Gilles Tremblay [pupils]
- Jean Vallerand
Carlos Chávez[edit]
Luigi Cherubini[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Cherubini (1760–1842) studied with teachers including Giuseppe Sarti.
Ernst August Heinrich Chevallier[edit]
Camille Chevillard[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Chevillard (1859–1923) studied with teachers including Georges Mathias.
Barney Childs[edit]
Frédéric Chopin[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Chopin (1810–1849) studied with teachers including Józef Elsner, Wojciech Żywny, and Wilhelm Würfel.
- Marcelina Czartoryska
- Émile Decombes [pupils]
- Carl Filtsch[67]
- Maria Kalergis
- Wilhelm von Lenz
- Georges Mathias [pupils][68][69]
- Marie Mauté de Fleurville [pupils][70]
- Karol Mikuli [pupils]
- Henriette Nissen-Saloman [pupils]
- Delfina Potocka
- Charlotte de Rothschild
- Fanny Stål [pupils]
- Jane Stirling[71]
- Thomas Tellefsen[72]
- Pauline Viardot [pupils]
Alexandre-Étienne Choron[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Choron (1771–1834) studied with teachers including Nicolas Roze.
Chou Wen-chung[edit]
this teacher's teachers
John Chowning[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Chowning (born 1934) studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger.
Tatyana Chudova[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Tatyana Chudova (1944–2021) studied with teachers including Tikhon Khrennikov, Lev Naumov, and Yuri Shaporin.
Adolf Chybiński[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Chybiński (1880–1952) studied with teachers including Jan Drozdowski, Felicjan Szopski, and Ludwig Thuille.
Frederick Scotson Clark[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Clark (1840–1883) studied with teachers including William Sterndale Bennett, Carl Engel, John Goss, Edward John Hopkins, and Ciro Pinsuti.
Charles W. Clark[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Clark (1865–1925) studied with teachers including Eugen Gura, George Henschel, and Alberto Randegger.
- Harold Lancaster Butler[78]
- Helen Fouts Cahoon[79]
- Jetta Cambell-Stanley[78]
- Marie Cavan[78]
- Robert Chignell[78]
- John Frederick Clark[78]
- Donna Riblette Flaaten[78]
- Adna Smith Flo[78]
- Ora Lightner Frost[78]
- Albert Lukken[80]
- Minetta May Magebs[78]
- Ethel Rader[81]
- Ralph Everett Sapp[78]
- Irma Mentz Sears[78]
- Charles Wanzer Starr[78]
- Leda C. Steele[82]
Johann Heinrich Clasing[edit]
Muzio Clementi[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Clementi (1752–1832) studied with teachers including Giuseppe Santarelli.
Frederic Cliffe[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Cliffe (1857–1931) studied with teachers including Ebenezer Prout, John Stainer, Arthur Sullivan, and Franklin Taylor.
Helen Coates[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Coates (born 1899, died 27/02/1989) studied with teachers including Heinrich Gebhard.
Theodor Coccius[edit]
- Algernon Ashton[95]
- Oskar Merikanto[96]
- Aleksander Michałowski [pupils] (studied 1867–1869)[97]
- Constantin Sternberg [pupils][98]
Philip Cogan[edit]
Jerry Coker[edit]
Randolph Coleman[edit]
Valborg Collett[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Collett studied with teachers including Agathe Backer-Grøndahl.
Giovanni Paolo Colonna[edit]
Edward T. Cone[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Cone (1917–2004) studied with teachers including Roger Sessions.
- Michael Dellaira
- Hobart Earle
- John Eaton [pupils][102]
- Alan Fletcher
- Robert Greenberg
- John Heiss [pupils][103]
- Sydney Hodkinson [pupils][104]
- Paul Lansky [pupils][105]
- David Lewin [pupils]
- Gilbert Levine
- Malcolm Peyton [pupils]
- Harold Powers
- Victor Rosenbaum
- John Solum
- Richard Aaker Trythall
- Edgar Warren Williams
Paul Constantinescu[edit]
Alexis Contant[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Contant (1858–1918) studied with teachers including Calixa Lavallée.
David Conte[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Georgi Conus[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Conus (1862–1933) studied with teachers including Anton Arensky and Sergei Taneyev.
Frederick Converse[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Converse (1871–1940) studied with teachers including Carl Baermann, John Knowles Paine, and Josef Rheinberger.
Benjamin Cooke[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Cooke (1734–1793) studied with teachers including Johann Christoph Pepusch.
Francis Judd Cooke[edit]
Henry Cooke[edit]
Thomas Simpson Cooke[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Cooke (1782–1848) studied with teachers including Tommaso Giordani.
George Cooper[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Cooper (1820–1876) studied with teachers including Thomas Attwood.
John Cooper[edit]
Paul Cooper[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Cooper (1926–1996) studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger, Roger Sessions, and Halsey Stevens.
Aaron Copland[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Copland (1900–1990) studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger, Rubin Goldmark, Isidor Philipp, and Leonard Wolfson.
- Samuel Adler [pupils]
- Norma Beecroft
- Elmer Bernstein
- Leonard Bernstein [pupils]
- Paul Bowles
- Mario Davidovsky [pupils][114]
- Jacob Druckman [pupils]
- Halim El-Dabh
- Harold Farberman [pupils][115]
- Alberto Ginastera [pupils]
- Michael Horvit[116][117]
- Anthony Iannaccone
- Osvaldo Lacerda[118]
- Alcides Lanza [pupils][105]
- Alvin Lucier [pupils][119][120]
- Richard Maxfield [pupils]
- Leonard B. Meyer [pupils]
- Henrietta Michelson
- José Pablo Moncayo
- Thea Musgrave [pupils][121]
- Knut Nystedt
- Juan Orrego-Salas [pupils][122]
- Robert Moffat Palmer [pupils][123]
- Barbara Pentland[124]
- Daniel Pinkham[125][126]
- Einojuhani Rautavaara
- Gardner Read [pupils]
- Allen Sapp
- Michael Schelle
- Michael Tilson Thomas
- Douglas Townsend
- Lester Trimble
- John Verrall [pupils]
William Corbett[edit]
Frederick Corder[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Corder (1852–1932) studied with teachers including William Cusins, Henry Gadsby, Ferdinand Hiller, George Alexander Macfarren, and Isidor Seiss.
- Arthur Alexander [pupils][128]
- Granville Bantock [pupils]
- Hubert Bath
- Arnold Bax
- William Henry Bell[129]
- York Bowen [pupils]
- Sam Hartley Braithwaite
- Alan Bush [pupils]
- Eric Coates[130]
- Paul Corder
- Benjamin Dale [pupils]
- Learmont Drysdale[131]
- Katharine Emily Eggar
- Harry Farjeon [pupils]
- Carl Hardebeck
- Michael Head[132]
- Joseph Holbrooke
- Theodore Holland [pupils][133]
- Frank Hutchens[134]
- Hermann Löhr[135]
- Emma Lomax
- John Blackwood McEwen [pupils]
- Morfydd Llwyn Owen
- Montague Phillips
- William Henry Reed[136]
- Alec Rowley[137]
- Felix Swinstead
Paul Corder[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Corder (1879–1942) studied with teachers including Frederick Corder.
Urbain Cordonnier[edit]
Arcangelo Corelli[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Corelli (1653-1713) studied with teachers including Giovanni Battista Bassani, Ercole Gaibara, Bartolomeo Laurenti, Carlo Mannelli, and Matteo Simonelli.
Domenico Corri[edit]
Giuseppe Corsi da Celano[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Corsi da Celano (c. 1631/1632–1691) studied with teachers including Giacomo Carissimi.
Alfred Cortot[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Cortot (1877–1962) studied with teachers including Émile Decombes.
- Pablo Arévalo [pupils][143]
- Gina Bachauer[144]
- İdil Biret [pupils][145]
- Hélène Boschi
- Dino Ciani[146]
- Jean-Michel Damase[147][148]
- Clara Luisa Demar
- Yvonne Desportes
- Margaret Fairchild
- Luc Ferrari[149]
- Samson François[146]
- Mischa Kottler
- Yvonne Lefébure
- Jeanne Leleu
- Dinu Lipatti[150]
- Colette Maze
- Vlado Perlemuter [pupils][146]
- Olav Roots
- Jesús Maria Sanromá
- Nathan Schwartz [pupils]
- Ruth Slenczynska
- Williametta Spencer
- Vitya Vronsky
- Chris Mary Francine Whittle [pupils]
- Lucia Passaglia [pupils][151]
Antonio Cotogni[edit]
Carlo Cotumacci[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Cotumacci studied with teachers including Alessandro Scarlatti.
Félix Le Couppey[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Couppey (1811–1887) studied with teachers including Victor Dourlen.
Ambrose Coviello[edit]
Henry Cowell[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Cowell (1897–1965) studied with teachers including Percy Goetschius and Charles Seeger.
- Johanna Beyer[158]
- Elizabeth Brubeck (née Ivey; mother of Dave Brubeck)
- Burt Bacharach
- John Cage [pupils][10]
- Philip Corner[159]
- George Gershwin[160]
- Lou Harrison [pupils][161]
- John Heiss [pupils][103]
- Dick Higgins[4]
- Donald Keats [pupils]
- Conlon Nancarrow
- Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia
- Ronald Roseman[27]
- Alan Stout [pupils][162]
Johann Baptist Cramer[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Cramer (1771–1858) studied with teachers including Muzio Clementi.
Ruth Crawford Seeger[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Crawford Seeger (1901–1953) studied with teachers including Valborg Collett, Heniot Levy, Louise Robyn, and Charles Seeger.
Harold Craxton[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Craxton (1885–1971) studied with teachers including Tobias Matthay.
Girolamo Crescentini[edit]
Paul Creston[edit]
William Crotch[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Crotch (1775-1847) studied with teachers including Charles Hague and Pieter Hellendaal.
Connie Crothers[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Crothers (1941–2016) studied with teachers including Lennie Tristano.
George Crumb[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Crumb (1929–2022) studied with teachers including Ross Lee Finney.
Dimitrie Cuclin[edit]
César Cui[edit]
G. D. Cunningham[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Cunningham (1878–1948) studied with teachers including Josiah Booth.
Maria Curcio[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Curcio (1918–2009) studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger and Artur Schnabel.
- Pierre-Laurent Aimard[174][175]
- Martha Argerich[174][175]
- Douglas Ashley[176]
- Thomas Bartlett[177]
- Peter Bithell
- Michel Block[178]
- Evelyne Brancart
- Angela Brownridge[179][180]
- Bertrand Chamayou[181]
- Myung-whun Chung[174]
- Rae de Lisle
- Simone Dinnerstein
- Barry Douglas[174][175]
- Christopher Elton
- José Feghali[174]
- Leon Fleisher[174]
- Claude Frank[174]
- Peter Frankl[174]
- Frank Glazer[178]
- Anthony Goldstone[174]
- Suzanne Goyette
- Albert Guinovart
- Jean-François Heisser[182]
- Ian Hobson[174]
- Niel Immelman
- Terence Judd[174]
- Angela Kim[183]
- Vedat Kosal
- Dalia Lazar
- Eric Le Sage
- Radu Lupu[174][175]
- Tessa Nicholson[citation needed]
- Rafael Orozco [pupils][174]
- Alfredo Perl[175]
- Matti Raekallio
- Matthew Schellhorn
- Ignat Solzhenitsyn[175]
- Yevgeny Sudbin
- Sergio Tiempo
- Hugh Tinney[174]
- Geoffrey Tozer[174]
- Dame Mitsuko Uchida[174][175]
- Douglas Weeks[184]
Alvin Curran[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Curran (born 1938) studied with teachers including Elliott Carter.
Clifford Curzon[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Curzon (1907–1982) studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger, Katharine Goodson, Wanda Landowska, Tobias Matthay, and Artur Schnabel.
Chaya Czernowin[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Czernowin (b. 1957) studied with teachers including John Eaton, Abel Ehrlich, Brian Ferneyhough, Andre Hajdu, Roger Reynolds, Izhak Sadai, Dieter Schnebel, Madechai Seter, Joan Tower, and Eli Yarden.
- Rick Burkhardt[185]
- Alexander Chernyshkov[186]
- Ann Cleare[187]
- Peter Ivan Edwards[188]
- Sivan Cohen Elias[189]
- Tamara Friebel[190]
- Ashley Fure[191]
- José-Luis Hurtado[192]
- Clara Iannotta[193]
- Evan Johnson[154]: 117
- Mary Kouyoumdjian[154]: 117
- Lei Liang[194]
- Timothy McCormack[195]
- Chris Mercer[196]
- Carola Obermüller[197]
- Marek Poliks[198]
- Stefan Prins[199]
- Julia Purgina[200]
- Adam Roberts[154]: 117
- Jason Thorpe Buchanan[154]: 117
- Alexander Sigman[201]
- Rick Snow[154]: 117
- Johan Tallgren[154]: 117
- Dan Tramte[154]: 117
- Ming Tsao
- Bert Van Herck[202]
- Gabriele Vanoni[154]: 117
- Thomas Wally[203]
- Weiwei Xu[154]: 117
- Julio Zúñiga[204]
Carl Czerny[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Czerny (1791–1857) studied with teachers including Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Muzio Clementi, and Antonio Salieri.
D[edit]
Ingolf Dahl[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dahl (1912–1970) studied with teachers including Volkmar Andreae, Nadia Boulanger, and Philipp Jarnach.
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze[edit]
Benjamin Dale[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dale (1885–1943) studied with teachers including Frederick Corder.
Jeremy Dale Roberts[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dale Roberts (1934–2017) studied with teachers including William Alwyn and Priaulx Rainier.
Gennaro D'Alessandro[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Gennaro D'Alessandro studied with teachers including Leonardo Leo.
Luigi Dallapiccola[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dallapiccola (1904–1975) studied with teachers including Vito Frazzi.
- Dominick Argento [pupils][220]
- Don Banks[221]
- Luciano Berio [pupils][10][222][223]
- Sylvano Bussotti[224]
- Noel Da Costa
- Halim El-Dabh
- Richard Felciano[225]
- Joel Mandelbaum[226]
- Donald Martino[227][228]
- Richard Maxfield [pupils][229]
- Julia Perry
- Bernard Rands [pupils]
- Leonard Rosenman [pupils]
- Edwin Roxburgh [pupils][230]
- Ernesto Rubin de Cervin
- Frederic Rzewski[231]
- Roland Trogan
- Raymond Wilding-White
- Arlene Zallman
Leopold Damrosch[edit]
Charles Dancla[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dancla (1817–1907) studied with teachers including Anton Reicha.
Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Daniel-Lesur (1908–2002) studied with teachers including Georges Caussade and Jean Gallon.
Edward Dannreuther[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dannreuther (1844–1905) studied with teachers including Ferdinand David, Moritz Hauptmann, Ignaz Moscheles, Ernst Friedrich Richter, and Frédéric Louis Ritter.
Innocenz Danzi[edit]
Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Daussoigne-Méhul (1790–1875) studied with teachers including Louis Adam, Charles-Simon Catel, and Étienne Méhul.
Francis William Davenport[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Davenport (1847–1925) studied with teachers including George Macfarren.
Ferdinand David[edit]
this teacher's teachers
David (1810–1873) studied with teachers including Moritz Hauptmann and Louis Spohr.
Johann Nepomuk David[edit]
this teacher's teachers
David (1895–1977) studied with teachers including Joseph Marx and Guido Adler.
Mario Davidovsky[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Davidovsky (born 1934) studied with teachers including Milton Babbitt, Aaron Copland, Teodoro Fuchs, and Guillermo Graetzer.
- Leslie Bassett [pupils]
- Hayes Biggs
- Chester Biscardi
- Eric Chasalow
- Sheree Clement
- Conrad Cummings
- Michael Daugherty [pupils]
- Du Yun
- Jason Eckardt
- Richard Einhorn
- Brian Field
- David Froom
- Peter Gilbert
- Perry Goldstein
- Matthew Greenbaum
- José Luis Hurtado
- Edward Jacobs
- Lei Liang
- Lu Yen
- Ingram Marshall
- Lansing McLoskey
- Karola Obermueller
- Gary Philo
- James Primosch
- Ken Ueno
- Chinary Ung [pupils]
- Chen Yi
- Zhou Long
Peter Maxwell Davies[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Davies (1934–2016) studied with teachers including Richard Hall, Earl Kim, Olivier Messiaen, Goffredo Petrassi, and Roger Sessions.
Walford Davies[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Davies (1869–1941) studied with teachers including Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford.
Anthony Davis[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Davis (born 1951) studied with teachers including (unknown) .
- Peter Askim [pupils][154]
- Jon Forshee [pupils]
- Harold Meltzer [pupils][154]: 123
Michael Daugherty[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Daugherty (born 1954) studied with teachers including Earle Brown, Pierre Boulez, Mario Davidovsky, Jacob Druckman, György Ligeti, Bernard Rands, and Roger Reynolds.
- Richard Adams[154]: 122
- Clarice Assad[57]
- Alexis Bacon[154]: 122
- Armando Bayolo[154]: 122
- Kevin Beavers[154]: 122
- Derek Bermel[154]: 122
- David Biedenbender[58]
- Andrew Bishop[59]
- Gabriela Lena Frank
- Stacy Garrop[247]
- Kristin Kuster
- David T. Little
- Jeff Myers
- Carter Pann [pupils]
- Joel Puckett
- Andrea Reinkemeyer
- Manly Romero[248][154]: 122
- Daniel Bernard Roumain
- Felicia Sandler[249]
- Arlene Sierra
- Carlos Simon[250]
- D. J. Sparr[154]: 511
- Matthew Tommasini[251]
- Aleksandra Vrebalov
- Gregg Wramage[154]: 122
- Roger Zare
Karl Davydov[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Davydov (1838–1889) studied with teachers including Moritz Hauptmann.
Arthur De Greef[edit]
this teacher's teachers
De Greef (1862–1940) studied with teachers including Louis Brassin, Franz Liszt, Émile Mathieu, and François-Auguste Gevaert.
John de Lancie[edit]
this teacher's teachers
de Lancie (1921–2002) studied with teachers including Marcel Tabuteau.
Claude Debussy[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Debussy (1862–1918) studied with teachers including Émile Durand, Ernest Guiraud, Albert Lavignac, Antoine François Marmontel, and Antoinette Mauté de Fleurville.
Émile Decombes[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Decombes (1829–1912) studied with teachers including Frédéric Chopin.
Jean-Baptiste Dehesse[edit]
Siegfried Dehn[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dehn (1799–1858) studied with teachers including Bernhard Klein.
- Julius Alsleben [pupils][258]
- Albert Becker[259]
- Ludwig Bussler[259]
- Peter Cornelius[259]
- Mikhail Glinka [pupils][259]
- Heinrich Hofmann[259]
- Gustav Nottebohm [pupils]
- Anton Rubinstein[259]
- Ferdinand Schulz[260]
- Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn[261]
- Franz Wüllner [pupils][262]
- Robert Zimmer (composer) [pupils][263]
Michel Richard Delalande[edit]
Louis Delaquerrière[edit]
Carmine de Laurentiis[edit]
Dorothy DeLay[edit]
- Yehonatan Berick
- Dmitri Berlinsky
- Sarah Chang
- Angèle Dubeau
- Nigel Kennedy
- Misha Keylin
- Chin Kim
- Yoon Kwon
- Li Chuan Yun
- Cho-Liang Lin
- Anne Akiko Meyers
- Midori Goto
- Shlomo Mintz
- Philippe Quint
- Itzhak Perlman
- Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
- Kurt Sassmannshaus
- Shunsuke Sato
- Gil Shaham
- Albert Stern
- Akiko Suwanai
- Jaap van Zweden [pupils]
Léo Delibes[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Delibes (1836–1891) studied with teachers including Adolphe Adam and François Benoist.
Enrico Delle Sedie[edit]
Isabelle Delorme[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Delorme (1900–1991) studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger and Claude Champagne.
David Del Tredici[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Del Tredici (born 1937) studied with teachers including Earl Kim, Roger Sessions, and Seymour Shifrin.
Claude Delvincourt[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Delvincourt (1888–1954) studied with teachers including André Gedalge.
Norman Demuth[edit]
Edison Denisov[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Denisov (1929–1996) studied with teachers including Philip Herschkowitz and Vissarion Shebalin.
Edward Joseph Dent[edit]
Ludwig Deppe[edit]
Viktor Derevianko[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Derevianko (1937–) studied with teachers including Heinrich Neuhaus and Maria Yudina.
Lucette Descaves[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Descaves (1906–1993) studied with teachers including Marguerite Long and Yves Nat.
Henri Desmarets[edit]
Roger Désormière[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Désormière (1898–1963) studied with teachers including Vincent d'Indy, Philippe Gaubert, Charles Koechlin, and Xavier Leroux.
- Rene Garriguenc[154]: 132
- Pierre Sancan[154]: 132
Josquin des Prez[edit]
Felix Otto Dessoff[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dessoff (1835–1892) studied with teachers including Moritz Hauptmann, Ignaz Moscheles, and Julius Rietz.
Max Deutsch[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Deutsch (1892–1982) studied with teachers including Arnold Schoenberg.
Orpha-F. Deveaux[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Deveaux (1872–1933) studied with teachers including Claude Champagne and Alexis Contant.
Jean Devémy[edit]
David Diamond[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Diamond (1915–2005) studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger and Bernard Rogers.
Emma Lou Diemer[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Diemer (born 1927) studied with teachers including Howard Hanson and Paul Hindemith.
Louis Diémer[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Diémer (1843–1919) studied with teachers including François Benoist, Antoine François Marmontel, and Ambroise Thomas.
Vincent d'Indy[edit]
this teacher's teachers
d'Indy (1851–1931) studied with teachers including Louis Diémer, César Franck, and Antoine François Marmontel.
- Isaac Albéniz[citation needed]
- Mihail Andricu [pupils]
- Leo Arnaud
- Georges Auric[37]
- Mansi Barberis[289]
- Seth Bingham[290]
- Alfonso Broqua
- Joseph Canteloube
- Pierre Capdevielle
- Dimitrie Cuclin [pupils][171]
- Jean Daetwyler
- Roger Désormière [pupils][154]: 132
- Jesús Guridi
- Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt
- Arthur Honegger [pupils][106]
- Eugène Lapierre
- Paul Le Flem [pupils]
- Guillaume Lekeu[291]
- Leevi Madetoja
- Albéric Magnard[292]
- Rodolphe Mathieu
- Marcel Mihalovici[171]
- Darius Milhaud [pupils]
- Gösta Nystroem[65]
- Henryk Opieński[293]
- Poldowski[294][236]
- Armande de Polignac
- Cole Porter
- Albert Roussel [pupils][295]
- Erik Satie [pupils][296]
- Blanche Selva
- Jules Semler-Collery
- John Laurence Seymour
- Lucijan Marija Škerjanc
- Georges Sporck[297]
- Georges-Émile Tanguay
- Otto Albert Tichý
- Edgard Varèse [pupils][298]
- Georges Martin Witkowski
- Xian Xinghai
- Emiliana de Zubeldia
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dittersdorf (1739–1799) studied with teachers including Giuseppe Bonno.
Andrzej Dobrowolski[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dobrowolski (1921–1990) studied with teachers including Artur Malawski.
Ernst von Dohnányi[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dohnányi (1877–1960) studied with teachers including Hans von Koessler and István Thomán.
Jakob van Domselaer[edit]
Franco Donatoni[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Donatoni (1927–2000) studied with teachers including Goffredo Petrassi and Ildebrando Pizzetti.
- Roberto Andreoni
- Pietro Borradori
- Roberto Carnevale
- Giulio Castagnoli
- Matteo D'Amico
- Michael Dellaira
- Pascal Dusapin
- Ivan Fedele
- Ric Formosa
- Sandro Gorli
- Magnus Lindberg
- Giorgio Magnanensi
- Luigi Manfrin
- Luca Mosca
- Piero Niro
- Riccardo Piacentini
- Fausto Romitelli
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
- Claudio Scannavini
- Giuseppe Sinopoli
- Alessandro Solbiati
- Katia Tiutiunnik
- Javier Torres Maldonado
- Juan Trigos
- Giovanni Verrando
- Suzanne Giraud
William Done[edit]
Jakob Dont[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dont (1815–1888) studied with teachers including Josef Böhm and Georg Hellmesberger.
Anton Door[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Door (1833–1919) studied with teachers including Carl Czerny and Simon Sechter.
Heinrich Dorn[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dorn (1804–1892) studied with teachers including Ludwig Berger and Carl Friedrich Zelter.
Louis Dorus[edit]
Victor Dourlen[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dourlen (1780–1864) studied with teachers including François-Adrien Boieldieu and François-Joseph Gossec.
Ernesto Drangosch[edit]
this teacher's teachers
(1882 - 1925) studied with teachers including Alberto Williams.
Alexander Dreyschock[edit]
Jan Drozdowski[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Drozdowski (1857–1918) studied with teachers including Anton Bruckner, Josef Dachs, Julius Epstein, Josef Hofmann, Aleksander Michałowski, Antoni Płachecki, and Władysław Żeleński.
Jacob Druckman[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Druckman (1928–1996) studied with teachers including Aaron Copland and Peter Mennin.
- Daniel Asia
- Robert Beaser[309]
- Mark Birnbaum
- Peter Child[310]
- Sidney Corbett[311]
- Robert Cucinotta
- Conrad Cummings
- Michael Daugherty [pupils]
- Donald Fagen
- Anthony Gatto
- Melissa Hui
- Daniel Kellogg
- Aaron Jay Kernis [pupils]
- Douglas Knehans
- Graeme Koehne[312]
- David Lang[313]
- Peter Scott Lewis
- Scott Lindroth
- Jing Jing Luo
- Cindy McTee
- Marc Mellits[314]
- Leon Milo
- Barberi Paull[315]
- Kevin Puts
- Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
- Arlene Sierra
- Sheila Silver
- André M. Smith
- Laurie Spiegel
- Pathorn Srikaranonda
- Jan Swafford[316]
- Christopher Theofanidis
- Augusta Read Thomas
- Joseph Waters
- Amnon Wolman
- Carolyn Yarnell
Zbigniew Drzewiecki[edit]
- Ryszard Bakst
- Felicja Blumental
- Walter Buczynski
- Paweł Chęciński
- Halina Czerny-Stefańska
- Jan Ekier [pupils]
- Róża Etkin-Moszkowska
- Lidia Grychtołówna
- Adam Harasiewicz
- Władysław Kędra
- Bolesław Kon
- Hiroko Nakamura
- Edward Olearczyk
- Regina Smendzianka
- Marta Sosińska
- John Tilbury
- Fou Ts'ong
- Roger Woodward
- Eva Maria Zuk
Théodore Dubois[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dubois (1837–1924) studied with teachers including Ambroise Thomas.
- Pierre de Bréville[citation needed]
- Guillaume Couture[317]
- Gustave Doret[citation needed]
- Paul Dukas [pupils][318]
- Gabrielle Ferrari[citation needed]
- Achille Fortier (No evidence that he studied with Dubois: see here
- Louis Ganne[319]
- Xavier Leroux [pupils][citation needed]
- Albéric Magnard[citation needed]
- Henriette Renié[320]
- Édouard Risler [pupils][321]
- Guy Ropartz[citation needed]
- Spyridon Samaras[citation needed]
- Florent Schmitt[322]
- Charles Silver[323]
Alexandre Dubuque[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dubuque (1812–1898) studied with teachers including John Field.
Paul Dukas[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dukas (1865–1935) studied with teachers including Théodore Dubois, Ernest Guiraud, and Georges Mathias.
- Claude Arrieu
- Tony Aubin [pupils][37]
- Francis Chagrin[324]
- Georges Dandelot[325]
- Yvonne Desportes
- Maurice Duruflé [pupils][326]
- Koharik Gazarossian[327]
- Jean Langlais [pupils][328]
- Olivier Messiaen [pupils]
- María de Pablos Cerezo [pupils][329]
- Walter Piston [pupils][330]
- Marcel Poot [pupils][331]
- Edward Staempfli [pupils][332]
- Tadeusz Szeligowski [pupils]
- Elsa Barraine [pupils]
Thomas Dunhill[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dunhill (1877–1946) studied with teachers including Walter Parratt, W. S. Rockstro, and Charles Villiers Stanford.
Auguste Dupont[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dupont (1827–1890) studied with teachers including Jules Jalheau.
Jean-Louis Duport[edit]
Jean-Pierre Duport[edit]
this teacher's teachers
J.-P. Duport (1741–1818) studied with teachers including Martin Berteau.
Marcel Dupré[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dupré (1886–1971) studied with teachers including Alexandre Guilmant and Lazare Lévy.
Gilbert Duprez[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Duprez (1806–1896) studied with teachers including Alexandre-Étienne Choron.
Jacques Dupuis[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dupuis (1830-1870) studied with teachers including François Prume.
Sylvain Dupuis[edit]
Édouard Du Puy[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Du Puy (1770–1822) studied with teachers including Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch.
Émile Durand[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Durand (1830–1903) studied with teachers including François Bazin.
Francesco Durante[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Durante (1684–1755) studied with teachers including Bernardo Pasquini and Alessandro Scarlatti.
Maurice Duruflé[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Duruflé (1902–1986) studied with teachers including Georges Caussade, Paul Dukas, César-Abel Estyle, Jean Gallon, Noël Gallon, Eugène Gigout, Alexandre Guilmant, Charles Tournemire, and Louis Vierne.
František Xaver Dušek[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dušek (1731–1799) studied with teachers including Franz Habermann and Georg Christoph Wagenseil.
Jan Ladislav Dussek[edit]
Sophia Dussek[edit]
Henri Dutilleux[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dutilleux (1916–2013) studied with teachers including Henri Büsser, Maurice Emmanuel, Jean Gallon, and Noël Gallon.
Alphonse Duvernoy[edit]
Antonín Dvořák[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dvořák (1841–1904) studied with teachers including Josef Krejčí.
George Dyson[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Dyson (1883–1964) studied with teachers including Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford.
E[edit]
John Eaton[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Eaton (born 1935) studied with teachers including Milton Babbitt, Edward T. Cone, and Roger Sessions.
Johann Ernst Eberlin[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Eberlin (1702–1762) studied with teachers including Balthasar Siberer.
Carl Eberwein[edit]
Clarence Eddy[edit]
Alexander Edelmann[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Edelmann (1904–1995) studied with teachers including Heinrich Neuhaus.
Jean-Frédéric Edelmann[edit]
Gilles van den Eeden[edit]
İsmail Dede Efendi[edit]
Galina Eguiazarova[edit]
Abel Ehrlich[edit]
Heinrich Ehrlich[edit]
Herbert Eimert[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Eimert (1897–1972) studied with teachers including Hermann Abendroth and August von Othegraven.
Severin Eisenberger[edit]
Antonín Eiser[edit]
Karl Eisrich[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Eisrich (1770–1835) studied with teachers including unknown .
- Mily Balakirev [pupils][154]: 152
Jan Ekier[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Ekier (1913–2014) studied with teachers including Zbigniew Drzewiecki and Kazimierz Sikorski.
Bram Eldering[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Eldering (1865–1943) studied with teachers including Jenő Hubay and Joseph Joachim.
Edward Elgar[edit]
Brian Elias[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Elias (born 1948) studied with teachers including Elisabeth Lutyens.
Ernst Ellberg[edit]
Catharinus Elling[edit]
Józef Elsner[edit]
George Elvey[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Elvey (1816–1893) studied with teachers including William Crotch, Stephen Elvey, and Cipriani Potter.
Herbert Elwell[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Elwell (1898–1974) studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger.
Paul Emerich[edit]
Maurice Emmanuel[edit]
George Enescu[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Enescu (1881–1955) studied with teachers including Gabriel Fauré, Robert Fuchs, Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr., and Martin Pierre Marsick.
Gustav Engel[edit]
Julius Epstein[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Epstein (1832-1926) studied with teachers including Vatroslav Lichtenegger, Johann Rufinatscha, and Anton Halm.
Donald Erb[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Erb (1927–2008) studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger, Kenneth Gaburo, and Bernhard Heiden.
Eduard Erdmann[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Erdmann (1896–1958) studied with teachers including Conrad Ansorge and Heinz Tiessen.
Robert Erickson[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Erickson (1917–1997) studied with teachers including Ernst Krenek and Roger Sessions.
- Paul Dresher[379][380]
- David Felder
- Brenda Hutchinson [pupils]
- Terry Jennings
- Lam Bun-Ching[381]
- Alexina Louie[382]
- Dary John Mizelle
- Pauline Oliveros [pupils][380][383][384][385]
- Terry Riley [pupils][380]
- Loren Rush[380]
- Ramon Sender
- Charles Shere[380]
- Allen Strange
- John Warthen Struble
- Morton Subotnick [pupils][380]
- Nicolas Vérin
Achille Errani[edit]
Paul Ertel[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Nicolás Ruiz Espadero[edit]
Michele Esposito[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Esposito (1855–1929) studied with teachers including Beniamino Cesi and Paolo Serrao.
César-Abel Estyle[edit]
José Evangelista[edit]
Camille Everardi[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Everardi (1824–1899) studied with teachers including Manuel García.
F[edit]
Werner Fabricius[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Fabricius studied with teachers including Heinrich Scheidemann and Thomas Selle.
Lorenzo Fago[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Fago (1704–1793) studied with teachers including Nicola Fago.
Nicola Fago[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Fago (1677–1745) studied with teachers including Francesco Provenzale.
Rolande Falcinelli[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Falcinelli (1920–2006) studied with teachers including Henri Büsser, Marcel Dupré, César-Abel Estyle, Isidor Philipp, Simone Plé-Caussade, and Marcel Samuel-Rousseau.
Manuel de Falla[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Falla (1876-1946) studied with teachers including Felip Pedrell.
Alexander Famintsyn[edit]
Harold Farberman[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Farberman (born 1929) studied with teachers including Milton Babbitt, Luciano Berio, Aaron Copland, and Lukas Foss.
Antonio Farini[edit]
Harry Farjeon[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Harry Farjeon (1878-1948) studied with teachers including Battison Haynes, Frederick Corder, and Landon Ronald.
Ferenc Farkas[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Farkas (1905–2000) studied with teachers including Leó Weiner and Albert Siklós.
Henry Farmer[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Farmer (1819–1891) studied with teachers including Henry Bishop and J. Wade Thirlwall.
John Farmer[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Farmer (1835–1901) studied with teachers including Henry Farmer, Moritz Hauptmann, Ignaz Moscheles, Louis Plaidy, Ernst Richter, and Andreas Spaeth.
Ernest Farrar[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Farrar (1885–1918) studied with teachers including Walter Parratt and Charles Villiers Stanford.
Arthur Farwell[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Farwell (1872–1952) studied with teachers including Engelbert Humperdinck.
Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch[edit]
this teacher's teachers
C. F. Fasch (1736–1800) studied with teachers including Johann Friedrich Fasch, Johann Wilhelm Hertel, and Carl Höckh.
Johann Friedrich Fasch[edit]
this teacher's teachers
J. F. Fasch (1688–1758) studied with teachers including Johann Kuhnau and Johann Schelle.
Gabriel Fauré[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Fauré (1845–1924) studied with teachers including Louis Niedermeyer and Camille Saint-Saëns.
- Lili Boulanger
- Mihail Andricu [pupils]
- Louis Aubert
- Lili Boulanger[286]
- Nadia Boulanger [pupils][403]
- Alfredo Casella [pupils]
- George Enescu [pupils]
- Henry Février [pupils]
- Gabriel Grovlez [pupils]
- Fernand Halphen [pupils]
- Jacques Ibert[404]
- Dumitru Georgescu Kiriac [pupils]
- Charles Koechlin [pupils]
- Paul Ladmirault
- Raoul Laparra[405]
- Maurice Ravel [pupils]
- Jean Roger-Ducasse
- Florent Schmitt[322]
- Germaine Thyssens-Valentin
- Louis Vuillemin
André Joseph Fauvel[edit]
Amy Fay[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Fay (1844–1928) studied with teachers including Ludwig Deppe, Theodor Kullak, Franz Liszt, and Carl Tausig.
Ilona Fehér[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Fehér (1901–1988) studied with teachers including Joseph Bloch and Jenő Hubay.
David Felder[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Felder (born 1953) studied with teachers including Donald Erb, Robert Erickson, Roger Reynolds, and Bernard Rands.
- Kedarnath Awati[408]
- Roberto Azaretto[citation needed]
- Christian Baldini[409][failed verification]
- Daniel Bassin[citation needed]
- Trevor Bjorklund[410]
- Eliav Brand[citation needed]
- Megan Buegger[411]
- Aubrey Byerly[citation needed]
- Aaron Cassidy[412]
- Emiliano Cerro[citation needed]
- Matthew Chamberlain[413]
- Derek Charke[414]
- Weijun Chen[415]
- Igor Coelho Marques[416]
- Douglas Cohen[417]
- Juan Colon-Hernandez[citation needed]
- Jessie Downs[418]
- Houston Dunleavy[419]
- Adrienne Elisha[420]
- Paul Elwood[421]
- Mara Gibson[422]
- Steve Gibson[citation needed]
- Meredith Gilna[423]
- Edgar Girtain[424]
- Jonathan Golove[425]
- Jacob Gotlib[426]
- Esin Gunduz[427]
- Vincent Hammer[citation needed]
- Haesook Han[citation needed]
- David Hanner[428]
- Emil Harnas[citation needed]
- Clinton Haycraft[429]
- Brien Henderson[430]
- Tomas Henriques[431][failed verification]
- Nathan Heidelberger[432]
- Alex Huddleston[citation needed]
- Hye Jeong-Lee[citation needed]
- Soo Ran [pupils][citation needed]
- Evan Johnson[433]
- Keith Johnson[citation needed]
- Lyle Johnson[citation needed]
- Jiyoung Jung[citation needed]
- David Kim-Boyle[434][failed verification]
- Rama Kolesnikow[citation needed]
- Joe Lake[435]
- Mark Mantel[436]
- Leonard Manzara[citation needed]
- Zane Merritt[citation needed]
- Sam Mirelman[437][failed verification]
- Leah Muir[438][failed verification]
- Otto Muller[439][failed verification]
- Gabriella Nechita[citation needed]
- Erik Oña
- Pang Chun-Ting[440]
- Dimitar Pentchev[441][failed verification]
- Robert Phillips[442]
- Nora Ponte[443][failed verification]
- David Rappenecker[citation needed]
- Bob Rice[citation needed]
- Alejandro Rutty[444][failed verification]
- Rick Sanford[citation needed]
- Matt Sargent[445][failed verification]
- Kenichi Seaki[citation needed]
- Chung Shih-Hoh[446]
- Moshe Shulman[447]
- Yngve Slettholm[448][failed verification]
- Diana Soh[449]
- David Squires[450]