List of music students by teacher: K to M
This is part of a list of students of music, organized by teacher.
K[edit]
Dmitry Kabalevsky[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kabalevsky (1904–1987) studied with teachers including Gregory Catoire, Nikolai Myaskovsky, and Alexander Goldenweiser.
Mauricio Kagel[edit]
Robert Kahn[edit]
Jouni Kaipainen[edit]
Friedrich Kalkbrenner[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kalkbrenner studied with teachers including Louis Adam and Charles-Simon Catel.
Hedwig Kanner-Rosenthal[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kanner-Rosenthal (1882–1959) studied with teachers including Theodor Leschetizky and Moriz Rosenthal.
M. William Karlins[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Richard Karpen[edit]
Peter Katin[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Katin (1930–2015) studied with teachers including Harold Craxton.
Leokadiya Kashperova[edit]
Eli Kassner[edit]
Apolinary Kątski[edit]
Nikolai Kazanli[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kazanli studied with teachers including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Donald Keats[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Keats studied with teachers including Paul Hindemith, Dominick Argento, Henry Cowell, Paul Fetler, Otto Luening, and Quincy Porter.
- Steven Gates[10]
- David (Carl) Johnson[11]
- Conrad Kehn[12]
Milko Kelemen[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kelemen studied with teachers including Wolfgang Fortner and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Reginald Kell[edit]
Ian Kellam[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kellam (1933–2014) studied with teachers including Reginald Tustin Baker, Howard Ferguson, and Herbert Sumsion.
Homer Keller[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Keller studied with teachers including Howard Hanson.
University of Michigan
University of Oregon
Edgar Stillman Kelley[edit]
Johann Peter Kellner[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kellner studied with teachers including Johann Sebastian Bach.
Wilhelm Kempff[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Karl Heinrich studied with teachers including Barth Robert and Kahn (composer) .
Anne Gamble Kennedy[edit]
Matthew Kennedy[edit]
Johann Caspar Kerll[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kellner (1627–1693) studied with teachers including Girolamo Frescobaldi and Giovanni Valentini.
Patricia Kern[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kern (1927–2015) studied with teachers including Gwynn Parry Jones.
Aaron Jay Kernis[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kernis studied with teachers including Jacob Druckman.
Aram Khachaturian[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Khachaturian studied with teachers including Reinhold Glière and Nikolai Myaskovsky.
Abdul Wahid Khan[edit]
Allauddin Khan[edit]
Ali Akbar Khan[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Khan (1922–2009) studied with teachers including Allauddin Khan.
Imdad Khan[edit]
Yuri Kholopov[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kholopov studied with teachers including Semyon Bogatyrev and Philip Herschkowitz.
Tikhon Khrennikov[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Khrennikov studied with teachers including Vissarion Shebalin and Nikolai Myaskovsky.
Friedrich Kiel[edit]
- Waldemar von Baußnern
- Julius Buths
- Frederic Hymen Cowen
- Carl Lachmund
- Rikard Nordraak[30][31]
- Zygmunt Noskowski [pupils]
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski [pupils]
- Georg Riemenschneider[32]
- Emil Sjögren
- Arthur Somervell
- Charles Villiers Stanford [pupils]
- Bernhard Stavenhagen [pupils][33]
- Ernst Eduard Taubert
- Otto Wangemann[34]
Earl Kim[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kim (1920–1998) studied with teachers including Arnold Schoenberg and Roger Sessions.
- John Adams[35]
- Anthony Brandt [pupils]
- Harrison Birtwistle [pupils]
- Curt Cacioppo
- Shih-Hui Chen [pupils]
- Peter Maxwell Davies [pupils]
- Doug Davis [pupils] [36]
- David Del Tredici [pupils]
- Edwin Dugger[37]
- George Edwards [pupils] [38]
- Jay Gottlieb [pupils]
- John Harbison [pupils]
- John Heiss [pupils][39]
- Louis Karchin [pupils]
- Robert Kyr
- Paul Lansky [pupils][40]
- Nicola LeFanu [pupils]
- Leonard J. Lehrman [pupils]
- Fred Lerdahl [pupils]
- David Lewin [pupils]
- Douglas McGilvra [pupils]
- Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
- Amy Reich [pupils]
- Paul Salerni[41]
- Kurt Stallmann
- Richard St. Clair
- Donald Sur
- Jan Swafford[42]
- John Thow
- Richard Aaker Trythall[43]
- Randall Woolf
Florence Kimball[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kimball (1888–1977) studied with teachers including Sarah Robinson‐Duff, Marcella Sembrich, and Arthur Shepherd.
Yasuji Kiyose[edit]
William Kincaid[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kincaid (1895–1967) studied with teachers including Georges Barrère.
Johann Erasmus Kindermann[edit]
Leon Kirchner[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kirchner studied with teachers including Arnold Schoenberg and Roger Sessions.
- John Adams[35][46]
- Jack Behrens
- David Borden
- Curt Cacioppo
- Alan Gilbert
- Jay Gottlieb [pupils]
- Juliana Hall
- Stephen Jablonsky [pupils]
- Tõnu Kalam
- Jonathan Kramer [pupils]
- Leonard J. Lehrman [pupils]
- Lawrence Moss
- Allen Shawn
- Faye-Ellen Silverman
- Richard St. Clair
- Tison Street
- Russell Steinberg[47]
- Morton Subotnick [pupils][46][48]
- Serge Tcherepnin [pupils]
- Richard Wernick [pupils]
Dumitru Georgescu Kiriac[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kiriac (1866–1928) studied with teachers including Vincent d'Indy, Gabriel Fauré, and Charles-Marie Widor.
Johann Kirnberger[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kirnberger (1721–1783) studied with teachers including Johann Sebastian Bach.
Charles Herbert Kitson[edit]
Johann Christian Kittel[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kittel (1732–1809) studied with teachers including Jakob Adlung and J. S. Bach.
Johann Friedrich Kittl[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kittl (1806–1868) studied with teachers including Václav Tomášek.
Halfdan Kjerulf[edit]
Bernhard Klein[edit]
Klein (1793–1832), mostly self-taught
Bruno Klein[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Klein (1858–1911) studied with teachers including Carl Baermann, Josef Rheinberger, and Franz Wüllner.
Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht[edit]
Julius Klengel[edit]
Jose Kliass[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Jose Kliass studied with teachers including Martin Krause.
Karl Klindworth[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Klindworth (1830–1916) studied with teachers including Franz Liszt.
Friedrich Klose[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Klose (1862–1942) studied with teachers including Anton Bruckner.
Hyacinthe Klosé[edit]
Franz Kneisel[edit]
Editha Knocker[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Knocker (1869–1950) studied with teachers including Joseph Joachim.
Iwan Knorr[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Knorr (1853–1916) studied with teachers including Ignaz Moscheles, Ernst Richter, and Carl Reinecke.
Oliver Knussen[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Knussen (1952–2018) studied with teachers including John Lambert and Gunther Schuller.
Friedrich Koch[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Koch (1862–1927) studied with teachers including Woldemar Bargiel and Robert Hausmann.
Zoltán Kodály[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kodály studied with teachers including Hans von Koessler.
Charles Koechlin[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Koechlin (1867–1950) studied with teachers including Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray, Gabriel Fauré, André Gedalge, Charles Lefebvre, Jules Massenet, and Antoine Taudou.
Hans-Joachim Koellreutter[edit]
Gottfried Michael Koenig[edit]
Hans von Koessler[edit]
Masayuki Koga[edit]
Louis Köhler[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Köhler (1820–1886) studied with teachers including Carl Maria von Bocklet, Simon Sechter, and Ignaz von Seyfried.
Ridley Kohné[edit]
Lee Konitz[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Konitz (1927–...) studied with teachers including Lennie Tristano.
Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky[edit]
Steven en Stijn Kolacny [4]
Mark Kopytman[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kopytman (1929–2011) studied with teachers including Roman Simovych.
Nikolai Korndorf[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Korndorf (1947–2001) studied with teachers including Sergey Balasanian.
Włodzimierz Kotoński[edit]
Serge Koussevitzky[edit]
Simon Kovar[edit]
Leopold Koželuch[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kozeluch studied with teachers including František Xaver Dušek.
Antonín Kraft[edit]
Leo Kraft[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kraft studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger and Randall Thompson.
William Kraft[edit]
Jonathan Kramer[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kramer studied with teachers including John Chowning, Andrew Imbrie, Leon Kirchner, Roger Sessions, Seymour Shifrin, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Clemens Krauss[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Krauss (1893–1954) studied with teachers including Hermann Graedener and Richard Heuberger.
Martin Krause[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Krause studied with teachers including Franz Liszt.
Herman Krebbers[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Krebbers (1923–2018) studied with teachers including Oskar Back.
Josef Krejčí[edit]
Ernst Krenek[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Krenek studied with teachers including Franz Schreker.
Franz Krenn[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Krenn (1816–1897) studied with teachers including Ignaz von Seyfried.
Hermann Kretzschmar[edit]
Leonid Kreutzer[edit]
this teacher's teachers
L. Kreutzer (1884–1953) studied with teachers including Alexander Glazunov, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Anna Yesipova.
Rodolphe Kreutzer[edit]
this teacher's teachers
R. Kreutzer (1766–1831) studied with teachers including Anton Stamitz.
Jaroslav Křička[edit]
Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz[edit]
Ivan Kryzhanovsky[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kryzhanovsky studied with teachers including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Johann Kuhnau[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kuhnau (1660–1722) studied with teachers including Vincenzo Albrici.
Georg Kulenkampff[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kulenkampff (1898–1948) studied with teachers including Leopold Auer and Willy Hess.
Gary Kulesha[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Theodor Kullak[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Kullak (1818–1882) studied with teachers including Albrecht Agthe, Carl Czerny, and Wilhelm Taubert.
- Agathe Backer Grøndahl [pupils]
- Otto Bendix
- Hans Bischoff
- Amy Fay [pupils]
- Alfred Grünfeld
- Heinrich Hofmann
- Alexander Ilyinsky
- James Kwast
- Leonard Liebling[125]
- Moritz Moszkowski [pupils]
- Rikard Nordraak[30][31]
- Silas Gamaliel Pratt
- Julius Reubke
- Nikolai Rubinstein [pupils]
- Xaver Scharwenka [pupils]
- William Hall Sherwood[126]
- Ilia Ilyitch Slatinn[127]
- Constantin Sternberg [pupils][128]
- Karl Wehle[129]
- Fred Werner[130]
Jaap Kunst[edit]
Michael Kurek[edit]
Karol Kurpiński[edit]
Eugene Kurtz[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Vilém Kurz[edit]
L[edit]
Josef Labor[edit]
Helmut Lachenmann[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lachenmann (born 1935) studied with teachers including Johann Nepomuk David, Luigi Nono, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Franz Lachner[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lachner studied with teachers including Simon Sechter and Maximilian Stadler.
Vinzenz Lachner[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lachner (1811–1893) studied with teachers including Simon Sechter and Maximilian Stadler.
C. K. Ladzekpo[edit]
Kobla Ladzekpo[edit]
Charles Philippe Lafont[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lafont (1781–1839) studied with teachers including Rodolphe Kreutzer and Pierre Rode.
Théophile Laforge[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Laforge (1863–1918) studied with teachers including Eugène Sauzay.
Pierre Lalo[edit]
Jacques-Michel Hurel de Lamare[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lamare (1772–1823) studied with teachers including Jean-Louis Duport.
Alexander Lambert[edit]
Constant Lambert[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lambert (1905–1951) studied with teachers including George Dyson, Herbert Fryer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, R. O. Morris, and Malcolm Sargent.
John Lambert[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lambert (1926–1995) studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger.
Frederic Lamond[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lamond studied with teachers including Franz Liszt.
Francesco Lamperti[edit]
- Emma Albani
- Gottardo Aldighieri
- Désirée Artôt [pupils]
- Sona Aslanova
- David Bispham
- Italo Campanini
- Virgilio Collini
- Sophie Cruvelli
- Franz Ferenczy
- Julián Gayarre [pupils]
- Lizzie Graham[146]
- Friederike Grün
- Ángela Peralta
- Alberto Stagno[5]
- Teresa Stolz
- Josef Tamaro[147]
- Maria Waldmann
- Herbert Witherspoon
- Marie van Zandt
Giovanni Battista Lamperti[edit]
Wanda Landowska[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lang studied with teachers including Moritz Moszkowski.
Benjamin Johnson Lang[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lang studied with teachers including Adriana Hölszky and Alfred Jaëll.
Jean Langlais[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Paul Lansky[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lansky studied with teachers including Milton Babbitt, Edward T. Cone, Earl Kim, George Perle, James Tenney, and Hugo Weisgall.
Alcides Lanza[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lanza studied with teachers including Julián Bautista, Aaron Copland, Alberto Ginastera, Yvonne Loriod, Bruno Maderna, Gian Francesco Malipiero, and Olivier Messiaen.
John Francis Larchet[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Larchet studied with teachers including Michele Esposito and Charles Herbert Kitson.
Alicia de Larrocha[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Larrocha (1932-2009) studied with teachers including Frank Marshall.
Eduard Lassen[edit]
Orlande de Lassus[edit]
Jacob Lateiner[edit]
- Bruce Brubaker
- Jarred Dunn (last student)
- Michael Endres
- Danae Kara
- Laura Karpman
- Lowell Liebermann
- Ying Chien Lin
- Yves Rault
- Ernest So
- Robert Taub
- Li-Na Yeh
Gaetano Latilla[edit]
Ferdinand Laub[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Laud (1832–1875) studied with teachers including Simon Sechter.
Thomas Laub[edit]
Calixa Lavallée[edit]
Berthe Laventurier[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Laventurier (1901–1978) studied with teachers including Arthur De Greef.
Albert Lavignac[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lavignac (1846–1916) studied with teachers including François Benoist, Antoine François Marmontel, and Ambroise Thomas.
Mario Lavista[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lavista (1943–2021) studied with teachers including Rodolfo Halffter, Jean-Étienne Marie, and Héctor Quintanar.
Djane Lavoie-Herz[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lavoie-Herz studied with teachers including Alexander Scriabin.
Henry Lawes[edit]
Henri Lazarof[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lazarof (1932–2013) studied with teachers including Paul Ben-Haim.
Madé Lebah[edit]
Jean-Marie Leclair[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Leclair [the older] (1697–1764) studied with teachers including Giovanni Battista Somis.
Jean-Marie Leclair the younger[edit]
Jean-Pantaléon Leclerc[edit]
Ton de Leeuw[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Leeuw studied with teachers including Jaap Kunst and Olivier Messiaen.
Nicola LeFanu[edit]
this teacher's teachers
LeFanu (1947–) studied with teachers including Earl Kim and Jeremy Dale Roberts.
Yvonne Lefébure[edit]
Gustave Lefèvre[edit]
Paul Le Flem[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Le Flem (1881–1984) studied with teachers including Vincent d'Indy and Albert Roussel.
Ethel Leginska[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Leginska studied with teachers including Theodor Leschetizky.
Giovanni Legrenzi[edit]
Jacques Leguerney[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Leguerney (1906–1997) studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger and Francis Poulenc.
René Leibowitz[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Leibowitz (1913–1972) studied with teachers including Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern.
Hugo Leichtentritt[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Leichtentritt studied with teachers including John Knowles Paine.
Karl Leimer[edit]
Nestor Lejeune[edit]
Peter Mandrup Lem[edit]
Edwin Lemare[edit]
Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lemmens (1823–1881) studied with teachers including François-Joseph Fétis and Adolf Friedrich Hesse.
Henry Lemoine[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lemoine (1786–1854) studied with teachers including Anton Reicha.
Charles Lenepveu[edit]
Carl Petter Lenning[edit]
Leonardo Leo[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Leo studied with teachers including Nicola Fago and Francesco Provenzale.
Hubert Léonard[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Léonard studied with teachers including Charles Auguste de Bériot and François Habeneck.
Gustav Leonhardt[edit]
Fred Lerdahl[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lerdahl studied with teachers including Wolfgang Fortner and Roger Sessions.
Xavier Leroux[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Leroux studied with teachers including Théodore Dubois.
Theodor Leschetizky[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Leschetizky studied with teachers including Carl Czerny and Simon Sechter.
- Alexander Brailowsky[211]
- Richard Buhlig
- Jeannette Durno
- Ignaz Friedman [pupils][195]
- Ossip Gabrilowitsch[195]
- Heinrich Gebhard [pupils][98][212][213]
- Severin Eisenberger [pupils]
- Mark Hambourg
- Mieczysław Horszowski [pupils]
- Edwin Hughes [pupils][214]
- Hedwig Kanner-Rosenthal [pupils][215]
- Ethel Leginska [pupils][216]
- Frank Merrick[113]
- Franz Mittler
- Benno Moiseiwitsch [pupils][195]
- Elly Ney
- Marie Novello
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski [pupils][195]
- Vladimir Pukhal'ski [pupils]
- Alexander Raab [pupils][217]
- Vasily Safonov [pupils]
- Artur Schnabel [pupils][195]
- Eleanor Spencer
- Isabelle Vengerova [pupils][98][212]
- Anastasia Virsaladze
- Emerson Whithorne[216]
- Alexander Winkler [pupils][81]
- Paul Wittgenstein
- Anna Yesipova [pupils][218]
- Dalhousie Young[219]
- Michael von Zadora[220]
Piano assistants:
Franciszek Lessel[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lessel studied with teachers including Joseph Haydn.
Jean-François Le Sueur[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Le Sueur (1760–1837) studied with teachers including Nicolas Roze.
Hermann Levi[edit]
Ray Lev[edit]
Heniot Levy[edit]
Lazare Lévy[edit]
this teacher's teachers
- Henri Betti
- Roger Boss
- Storm Bull
- John Cage [pupils]
- Marcel Dupré [pupils]
- Lukas Foss [pupils]
- Koharik Gazarossian[226]
- Valentin Gheorghiu
- Monique Haas
- Clara Haskil
- Yüksel Koptagel
- Varda Nishry[227]
- Oskar Morawetz
- Michel Plasson
- Yves Ramette[228]
- Georges Savaria
- Kazimierz Serocki
- Solomon
- Rodica Sutzu
- André Tchaikowsky
David Lewin[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Henry Ley[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Ley (1887–1962) studied with teachers including Marmaduke Barton, Charles Villiers Stanford, Walter Parratt, and Charles Wood.
Ingvar Lidholm[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lidholm (born 1921) studied with teachers including Hilding Rosenberg.
Estelle Liebling[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Liebling studied with teachers including Mathilde Marchesi and Selma Nicklass-Kempner.
- Adele Astaire[231]
- Grace Angelau[232]
- Rosemarie Brancato[233]
- Ralph Blane[232]
- Kitty Carlisle[231]
- Betty Compton[232]
- Joan Crawford[232]
- Yvonne D'Arle[232]
- Colette D'Arville[232]
- Jessica Dragonette[231]
- Doris Duke[232]
- Amelita Galli-Curci[231]
- Rosario García Orellana[232]
- Hope Hampton[232]
- Frieda Hempel[231]
- Maria Jeritza[233]
- Miliza Korjus[233]
- Gertrude Lawrence[231]
- Max Lorenz[233]
- Göta Ljungberg[232]
- Dorothee Manski[232]
- William Martin [232]
- Irene Mayer Selznick[232]
- Lucy Monroe[232]
- Maria Müller[232]
- Devora Nadworney[232]
- Louella Parsons[232]
- Irra Petina[232]
- Marie Rappold[232]
- Elisabeth Rethberg[232]
- Joan Roberts[234]
- Anne Roselle[232]
- Titta Ruffo[231]
- Vivienne Segal[232]
- Beverly Sills[231]
- Meryl Streep[235]
- Alexander Sved[232]
- Margaret Truman[232]
- June Winters[232]
- Iva Withers[232]
Theodor Lierhammer[edit]
György Ligeti[edit]
- Hans Abrahamsen [pupils]
- Denys Bouliane
- Martin Bresnick [pupils]
- Xiaoyong Chen
- Unsuk Chin
- Sidney Corbett
- Michael Daugherty [pupils]
- Henrik Otto Donner
- Mohammed Fairouz[citation needed]
- Beatriz Ferreyra
- James Horner[236]
- Anne LeBaron
- Jonathan Lloyd[237]
- Peter Nelson[citation needed]
- Wolfgang Plagge[238]
- Andrew Powell
- Hans Peter Reutter[239]
- Wolfgang von Schweinitz
- Roberto Sierra [pupils]
- Sheila Silver
- Manfred Stahnke
- Norma Tyer
- Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph
Liza Lim[edit]
Jenny Lind[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lind studied with teachers including Manuel García and Adolf Fredrik Lindblad.
Magnus Lindberg[edit]
Adolf Fredrik Lindblad[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lindblad studied with teachers including Carl Friedrich Zelter.
Ludvig Mathias Lindeman[edit]
Robert Lindley[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lindley (1776–1855) studied with teachers including James Cervetto.
Thomas Linley the elder[edit]
David Liptak[edit]
Bernhard Listemann[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Listemann studied with teachers including Joseph Joachim and Henri Vieuxtemps.
Franz Liszt[edit]
this teacher's teachers
- Károly Aggházy [pupils]
- Eugen d'Albert[35]
- Conrad Ansorge [pupils]
- Mikhail Azanchevsky
- Agathe Backer Grøndahl [pupils]
- Carl Baermann [pupils][245]
- Henri Berény[246]
- Arthur H. Bird[247]
- Valérie Boissier [pupils][248]
- Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff[249]
- Hans von Bülow [pupils]
- Louis Coenen[250]
- Arthur De Greef [pupils][251]
- Paul Ertel [pupils][252]
- Amy Fay [pupils][253]
- Arthur Friedheim [pupils]
- Olga Janina aka Bessel [pupils][254]
- Karl Klindworth [pupils][134]
- Martin Krause [pupils][109]
- Frederic Lamond [pupils][212]
- Wilhelm von Lenz
- Max Liebling[231]
- William Mason [pupils]
- Sophie Menter[255]
- Sebastian Bach Mills[256]
- Dionys Pruckner[257]
- Eduard Rappoldi [pupils][258]
- Theodor Ratzenberger[259]
- Carl Reinecke [pupils][260]
- Eduard Reuss[261]
- Moriz Rosenthal [pupils][262]
- Damian von Rössl[263]
- Max van de Sandt[264]
- Emil von Sauer [pupils]
- Max Schwarz[162]
- Giovanni Sgambati [pupils][265]
- William Hall Sherwood[126]
- Alexander Siloti [pupils]
- Bernhard Stavenhagen [pupils]
- Karl Tausig [pupils][64][266]
- Hilda Thegerström [pupils]
- István Thomán [pupils][267]
- Vera Timanova
- Anton Urspruch [pupils][75]
- José Vianna da Motta[268]
- Pauline Viardot[269]
- Eugen von Volborth[159]
- Regina Watson [pupils]
- Józef Wieniawski[119][270]
- Josef Weiss[271]
- Géza Zichy[272]
Henry Litolff[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Litolff (1818–1891) studied with teachers including Ignaz Moscheles.
Edward Llewellyn[edit]
Miguel Llobet[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Llobet studied with teachers including Francisco Tárrega.
Charles Harford Lloyd[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lloyd studied with teachers including John Stainer.
William Lloyd Webber[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lloyd Webber (1914–1982) studied with teachers including Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Normand Lockwood[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lockwood studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger and Ottorino Respighi.
Johann Bernhard Logier[edit]
Antonio Lolli[edit]
Vincenzo Lombardi[edit]
Marguerite Long[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Long studied with teachers including Antoine François Marmontel.
Nikolai Lopatnikoff[edit]
Richard Loqueville[edit]
Yvonne Loriod[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Loriod (1924–2010) studied with teachers including César-Abel Estyle, Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud, and Isidor Philipp.
Antonio Lotti[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lotti (1667-1740) studied with teachers including Giovanni Legrenzi.
Charles Lucas[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lucas (1808–1869) studied with teachers including William Crotch and Robert Lindley.
Andrea Luchesi[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Luchesi (1741–1801) studied with teachers including Ferdinando Bertoni and Baldassare Galuppi.
Alvin Lucier[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Lucier (born 1931) studied with teachers including Arthur Berger, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Quincy Porter, and Harold Shapero.
Otto Luening[edit]
- Sol Berkowitz
- Wendy Carlos[289]
- Chou Wen-chung [pupils]
- Gloria Coates [pupils]
- Dan Cooper
- John Corigliano[290][291]
- Philip Corner[290]
- Mario Davidovsky [pupils][292]
- Charles Dodge[293][294]
- Roger Goeb[295]
- Malcolm Goldstein
- Daniel Goode
- John Heiss [pupils][39]
- Ben Johnston [pupils][296]
- Donald Keats [pupils]
- Karl Korte
- Leonard B. Meyer [pupils]
- Joseph Pehrson
- Eric Salzman[297]
- Elliott Schwartz
- Alice Shields
- Seymour Shifrin [pupils][298]
- Faye-Ellen Silverman
- Dave Soldier
- Harvey Sollberger [pupils]
- Michiko Toyama
- Daniel Waitzman [pupils]
- David Walther [pupils]
- Charles Wuorinen [pupils]
Lennart Lundberg[edit]
Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier[edit]
Jean-Baptiste Lully[edit]
Witold Lutosławski[edit]
Elisabeth Lutyens[edit]
Luzzasco Luzzaschi[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Luzzaschi (c. 1545 – 1607) studied with teachers including Cipriano de Rore and Francesco dalla Viola.
Anatoly Lyadov[edit]
Boris Lyatoshinsky[edit]
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Terence MacDonagh[edit]
this teacher's teachers
MacDonagh (1908–1986) studied with teachers including Myrtile Morel and Léon Goossens.
Mieczysław Michailowicz[edit]
Edward MacDowell[edit]
this teacher's teachers
MacDowell (1860–1908) studied with teachers including Teresa Carreño, Antoine François Marmontel, and Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard.
José Maceda[edit]
George Alexander Macfarren[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Macfarren (1813–1887) studied with teachers including William Henry Holmes, Charles Lucas, Cipriani Potter, and John Smithies.
- Robert Brydges Addison
- Dora Bright
- George Frederick Bristow
- Frederick Corder [pupils][310]
- Francis William Davenport [pupils]
- Julian Edwards
- Florence Ashton Marshall
- Tobias Matthay [pupils]
- James McGranahan
- Edwin George Monk
- Oliveria Prescott
- Alice Mary Smith
- Elizabeth Stirling [pupils]
- Frederick Westlake[53]
- Maude Valérie White[311]
- Agnes Zimmermann
Walter Cecil Macfarren[edit]
Alexander Mackenzie[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Mackenzie (1847–1935) studied with teachers including Charles Lucas and Eduard Stein.
Giovanni de Macque[edit]
Bruno Maderna[edit]
Nikita Magaloff[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Nikita Magaloff (21 February [O.S. 8 February] 1912 – 26 December 1992) studied with teachers including Alexander Siloti and Isidor Philipp.
Rudolf Magnus[edit]
Gustav Mahler[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Mahler (1860–1911) studied with teachers including Julius Epstein, Heinrich Fischer, Robert Fuchs, and Franz Krenn.
Alphonse Mailly[edit]
Artur Malawski[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Malawski (1904–1957) studied with teachers including Jan Chmielewski and Kazimierz Sikorski.
Ivo Malec[edit]
Gian Francesco Malipiero[edit]
Otto Malling[edit]
Mathilde Mallinger[edit]
Francesco Mancini[edit]
Eusebius Mandyczewski[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Mandyczewski (1857–1929) studied with teachers including Robert Fuchs and Gustav Nottebohm.
Leopold Mannes[edit]
Eduard Mantius[edit]
André Marchal[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Marchal studied with teachers including Eugène Gigout.
Louis Marchand[edit]
Mathilde Marchesi[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Marchesi (1821–1913) studied with teachers including Manuel García.
- Suzanne Adams
- Frances Alda
- Sigrid Arnoldson
- Blanche Arral
- Emma Calvé
- Ada Crossley
- Ilma de Murska[334]
- Emma Eames
- Antonietta Fricci
- Mary Garden
- Etelka Gerster
- Katharina Klafsky
- Gabrielle Krauss
- Selma Kurz
- Miriam Licette
- Estelle Liebling [pupils]
- Blanche Marchesi (her daughter)
- Dame Nellie Melba
- Yevgeniya Mravina
- Emma Nevada
- Aglaja Orgeni
- Gina Oselio
- Regina Pacini
- Rosa Papier [pupils]
- Anna Pessiak-Schmerling
- Sarah Robinson-Duff [pupils]
- Sibyl Sanderson
- Evelyn Scotney
- Antoinette Sterling[128]
- Yvonne de Tréville[335]
- Ellen Beach Yaw
- Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel
Jean-Étienne Marie[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Marie (1917–1989) studied with teachers including Olivier Messiaen and Darius Milhaud.
Gaetano Marinelli[edit]
Władysława Markiewiczówna[edit]
Antoine François Marmontel[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Marmontel (1816–1898) studied with teachers including Victor Dourlen, Fromental Halévy, Jean-François Le Sueur, and Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmerman.
- Georges Bizet[223]
- Ignacio Cervantes [pupils]
- Claude Debussy [pupils][167][168]
- Louis Diémer [pupils][223]
- Théodore Dubois [pupils][223]
- Dominique Ducharme
- Alphonse Duvernoy [pupils][223]
- Edmond Duvernoy[223]
- Henri Fissot[223]
- Gustave Gagnon
- Henri Ghys
- Ernest Guiraud [pupils][223]
- Vincent d'Indy [pupils][223]
- Eugène Ketterer[338]
- Théodore Lack[223]
- Albert Lavignac [pupils]
- Marguerite Long [pupils]
- Edward MacDowell [pupils]
- Émile Paladilhe[223]
- Romain-Octave Pelletier I [pupils]
- Gabriel Pierné
- Francis Planté[223]
- Paul Rougnon
- Antoine Simon
- Hilda Thegerström [pupils]
- Francis Thomé[223]
- Theodore Tourrier[339]
- Paul Wachs
- Józef Wieniawski[119][223][270]
- Jules Auguste Wiernsberger
- André Wormser[340]
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg[edit]
Roger Marsh[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Marsh (b. 1949) studied with teachers including Ian Kellam and Bernard Rands.
Frank Marshall[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Marhshall (1883-1959) studied with teachers including Enrique Granados.
Martin Pierre Marsick[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Marsick (1847–1924) studied with teachers including Désiré Heynberg, Hubert Léonard, and Lambert Massart.
Maurice Martenot[edit]
Frank Martin[edit]
Giovanni Battista Martini[edit]
this teacher's teachers
"Padre Martini" studied with teachers including Giacomo Antonio Perti.
- Johann Christian Bach [pupils]
- Maksym Berezovsky
- Ferdinando Bertoni [pupils]
- Pater Luigi Braccini[350]
- Charles Broche [pupils][351]
- Giovanni Battista Cirri
- Antonio Maria Fossombroni[352]
- Giovanni Battista Gaiani[353]
- Quirino Gasparini[354]
- Lorenzo Gibelli[355]
- André Ernest Modeste Grétry
- Giuseppe de Majo[356]
- Stanislao Mattei [pupils][357]
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [pupils]
- Josef Mysliveček
- Johann Gottlieb Naumann[358]
- Vincenzo Pallavicini[359]
- Luigi Antonio Sabbatini[360]
- Giuseppe Sarti [pupils]
- Giuseppe Simoni [pupils][361]
- Georg Joseph Vogler [pupils]
Vicente Martín y Soler[edit]
Salvatore Martirano[edit]
Bohuslav Martinů[edit]
Adolf Bernhard Marx[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Marx (1795-1866) studied with teachers including Daniel Gottlob Türk and Carl Friedrich Zelter.
Joseph Marx[edit]
Eduard Marxsen[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Marxsen (1806–1887) studied with teachers including Carl Maria von Bocklet, Johann Heinrich Clasing, and Ignaz von Seyfried.
William Mason[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Mason (1829–1908) studied with teachers including Moritz Hauptmann, Franz Liszt, Ignaz Moscheles, and Henry Schmidt.
Angelo Mascheroni[edit]
Lambert Massart[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Massart (1811–1892) studied with teachers including Rodolphe Kreutzer.
Rodolphe Massart[edit]
William Masselos[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Masselos (1920-1992) studied with teachers including Carl Friedberg.
Jules Massenet[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Massenet (1842–1912) studied with teachers including Ernest Guiraud, Napoléon Henri Reber, and Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard.
- Valborg Aulin[374]
- André Bloch
- Gustave Charpentier[35][375]
- Ernest Chausson
- George Enescu
- Reynaldo Hahn
- Charles Koechlin [pupils]
- Raoul Laparra [pupils][376]
- Spyridon Samaras
- Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard
- Gerhard Schjelderup
- Mon Schjelderup
- Florent Schmitt[170]
- Charles Silver[377]
- Zygmunt Stojowski[330]
- Paul Vidal [pupils]
Georges Mathias[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Mathias studied with teachers including François Bazin, Frédéric Chopin, Fromental Halévy, and Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
Émile Mathieu[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Mathieu (1844–1932) studied with teachers including Auguste Dupont.
Stanislao Mattei[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Mattei (1750–1825) studied with teachers including Giovanni Battista Martini.
Tobias Matthay[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Matthay (1858– 1945) studied with teachers including William Sterndale Bennett, George Alexander Macfarren, Ebenezer Prout, and Arthur Sullivan.
- Arthur Alexander [pupils][382]
- Putnam Aldrich [pupils]
- Arnold Bax
- York Bowen [pupils][383]
- Alan Bush [pupils]
- Harriet Cohen[383]
- Harold Craxton [pupils][383]
- Clifford Curzon [pupils][148]
- Harry Dean
- Norman Fraser
- Helen Gunderson
- Myra Hess [pupils][383]
- Dorothy Howell[384]
- Frank Hutchens[385]
- Guy Jonson
- Eileen Joyce[383]
- Vivian Langrish
- Denise Lassimonne[386]
- Ray Lev[383]
- Ernest Lush[383]
- Moura Lympany
- Lilias Mackinnon[387]
- John Blackwood McEwen [pupils]
- Eunice Norton[383]
- Gertrude Peppercorn[388]
- Ivan Phillipowsky[389]
- Lytle Powell
- Ernest Read [pupils]
- Rae Robertson
- Irene Scharrer[383]
- Felix Swinstead
- Cuthbert Whitemore [pupils][390]
Antoinette Mauté de Fleurville[edit]
Nicholas Maw[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Maw studied with teachers including Lennox Berkeley and Nadia Boulanger.
Richard Maxfield[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Maxfield studied with teachers including John Cage, Aaron Copland, Luigi Dallapiccola, Ernst Krenek, Bruno Maderna, and Roger Sessions.
František Maxián[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Maxián (1907–1971) studied with teachers including Vilém Kurz.
Charles Mayer[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Mayer studied with teachers including John Field.
Wilhelm Mayer[edit]
Simon Mayr[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Mayr (1763–1845) studied with teachers including Ferdinando Bertoni.
Carl Mayrberger[edit]
Joseph Mayseder[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Mayseder (1789–1863) studied with teachers including Emanuel Aloys Förster, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, and Paul Wranitzky.
Alberto Mazzucato[edit]
John Blackwood McEwen[edit]
this teacher's teachers
McEwen (1868–1948) studied with teachers including Frederick Corder, Tobias Matthay, and Ebenezer Prout.
Colin McPhee[edit]
this teacher's teachers
McPhee (1900–1964) studied with teachers including Arthur Friedheim, Gustav Strube, and Edgard Varèse.
Paul Méfano[edit]
Lambert Joseph Meerts[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Meerts (1800–1863) studied with teachers including Pierre Baillot and Jean-Henri Simon.
Étienne Méhul[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Méhul (1763–1817) studied with teachers including Jean-Frédéric Edelmann and Wilhelm Hanser.
Gustav Meier[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Meier (1929–2016) studied with teachers including Hans Swarowsky.
Felix Mendelssohn[edit]
this teacher's teachers
Mendelssohn (1809–1847) studied with teachers including Ludwig Berger, Ignaz Moscheles, and Carl Friedrich Zelter.