List of music students by teacher: A to B
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A
Arkady Abaza
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Christian Ferdinand Abel
Hermann Abendroth
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Abendroth (1883–1956) studied with teachers including Ludwig Thuille.
Hans Abrahamsen
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Abrahamsen (born 1952) studied with teachers including György Ligeti, Per Nørgård, and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen.
Dieter Acker
Adolphe Adam
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Adam (1803–1856) studied with teachers including Charles-Simon Catel, François Benoist, and François-Adrien Boieldieu.
Louis Adam
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Adam (1758-1848) studied with teachers including Jean-Frédéric Edelmann.
John Luther Adams
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- Corey Dargel[18]
- Katherine Gordon[19]
- Ryan Maguire[20]
- Todd Tarantino[21]
Murray Adaskin
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Adaskin (1906–2002) studied with teachers including John Weinzweig.
Guido Adler
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Oskar Adler
Samuel Adler
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Adler (born 1928) studied with teachers including Aaron Copland, Paul Hindemith, Serge Koussevitzky, Walter Piston, and Randall Thompson.
- Kathryn Alexander
- Martin Amlin[27]
- Claude Baker [pupils][28]
- Roger Briggs[29]
- Jason Robert Brown[30]
- David Crumb[31]
- Greg Danner[32]
- Eric Ewazen[33]
- Peng-Peng Gong[34]
- Jay Greenberg[35]
- Kevin Hanlon[36]
- Anthony Iannaccone[37]
- Kamran Ince[38]
- Mark Isaacs[39]
- Michael Isaacson[40]
- Martin Kennedy
- Annette LeSiege [pupils][41]
- Scott Lindroth[42]
- Marc Mellits[43]
- Carter Pann [pupils][44]
- Robert Paterson[45]
- Paul Phillips[46]
- Paul Reller[47]
- Michael Alec Rose[48]
- Jonathan Schwabe[49]
- Daria Semegen [pupils][50]
- Gordon Stout[51]
- Christopher Theofanidis
- Michael Sidney Timpson
- Fisher Tull[52]
- Dalit Warshaw
- Dan Welcher [pupils]
- Michael Glenn Williams
- Dana Wilson
- Ye Xiaogang[53]
Jakob Adlung
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J. Adlung (1699–1762) studied with teachers including David Adlung, Johann Nikolaus Bach, and Christian Reichardt.
Guido Agosti
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Agosti (1901–1989) studied with teachers including Giacomo Benvenuti, Ferruccio Busoni, Filippo Ivaldi, and Bruno Mugellini.
Albrecht Agthe
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Agthe (1790–1873) studied with teachers including Michael Gotthard Fischer.
- Anna Steiniger Clark[55]
- Adolph Kullak[56]
- Theodor Kullak [pupils][57][58]
- Louis Plaidy [pupils][59]
Webster Aitken
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Aitken (1908–1981) studied with teachers including Emil von Sauer.
Jean-Delphin Alard
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Jules Alary
Carlo Albanesi
Johann Friedrich Alberti
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Johann Georg Albrechtsberger
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Albrechtsberger (1736–1809) studied with teachers including Georg Matthias Monn and Leopold Pittner.
- Ludwig van Beethoven [pupils][64][65][66]
- Antonio Casimir Cartellieri[67]
- Joseph Leopold Eybler[68][69]
- John Field [pupils][70]
- János Fusz [pupils][71]
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel [pupils][72]
- Friedrich Kalkbrenner[73][74]
- Ignaz Moscheles [pupils][75]
- Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart [pupils][76]
- Johann Peter Pixis [pupils][77]
- Anton Reicha [pupils][78]
- Ferdinand Ries [pupils][79]
- Ignaz von Seyfried [pupils][80]
- Johannes Matthias Sperger[81]
- Ludwig-Wilhelm Tepper de Ferguson
- Joseph Weigl[82]
- Anton Wranitzky[83]
Vincenzo Albrici
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Albrici (1631 – 1695/1696) studied with teachers including Giacomo Carissimi.
William Albright
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Albright (1944 – 1998) studied with teachers including Hugh Aitken, Leslie Bassett, Max Deutsch, Ross Lee Finney, Michael Kurek, Marilyn Mason, Olivier Messiaen, and George Rochberg.
Walter Galpin Alcock
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Putnam Aldrich
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Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge
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Aldridge (1866–1956) studied with teachers including Jenny Lind.
Arthur Alexander
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Charles-Valentin Alkan
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Alkan (1813–1888) studied with teachers including Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann.
Joe Allard
Basil Allchin
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Alchin (1878–1957) studied with teachers including Walford Davies, Walter, Parratt Herbert, Sharpe Charles Villiers, and Stanford .
Hugh Allen
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Allen (1869–1946) studied with teachers including unknown .
Pedro Humberto Allende
Julius Alsleben
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Alsleben studied with teachers including Siegfried Dehn.
Johann Christoph Altnickol
Javier Álvarez
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Álvarez (b. 1956) studied with teachers including Mario Lavista.
William Alwyn
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Alwyn (1905–1985) studied with teachers including John Blackwood McEwen, Edward Morton, Leo Livens, William Wallace, and Daniel Sykes Wood.
August Ferdinand Anacker
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Anacker (1790–1854) studied with teachers including Johann Gottfried Schicht and Friedrich Schneider.
- K. F. Brendel[114]
- Reinhold Finsterbusch[114]
- Eduard Stein [pupils][115]
- Robert Volkmann [pupils][114]
Jorge Anckermann
Julian Anderson
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Anderson (b. 1967) studied with teachers including Alexander Goehr, John Lambert, and Tristan Murail.
- Mark Bowden[117]
- Edmund Finnis[118]
- Helen Grime[118]
- Emily Hall[citation needed]
- Ulrich Kreppein[118]
- Christopher Mayo[119]
- Karola Obermueller[120]
- Elizabeth Ogonek[121]
- Mark Simpson[118]
- Chris Trapani[118]
- Bert Van Herck[122]
- Huw Watkins[118]
Johann Anton André
Volkmar Andreae
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Andreae (1879–1962) studied with teachers including Fritz Brun, Friedrich_Wilhelm Franke, Isidor Seiss, and Franz Wüllner.
Mihail Andricu
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Andricu (1894–1974) studied with teachers including Gabriel Fauré, Vincent d'Indy, and Dumitru Georgescu Kiriac.
Hendrik Andriessen
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H. Andriessen (1892–1981) studied with teachers including Bernard Zweers.
Louis Andriessen
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- Michel van der Aa[125][126]
- Martin Arnold[127]
- Richard Ayres[128][129]
- Richard Baker
- Bára Grímsdóttir[130]
- Oscar Bettison
- Jeffrey Brooks
- Allison Cameron[131]
- Derek Charke[132][133]
- Marko Ciciliani[134]
- Emily Doolittle[135]
- Michael Fiday[136]
- Graham Fitkin[137][138][139]
- Kasia Glowicka[140][141][142][143][144][145][146]
- Michael Zev Gordon[147]
- Jeff Hamburg[148]
- Rozalie Hirs[149]
- Ivana Kiš[150]
- Graeme Koehne[151]
- John Korsrud[136][152]
- Yannis Kyriakides[153]
- Juan Sebastián Lach Lau
- Pascal Le Boeuf[154]
- Frank P Martinez
- Steve Martland[137][138][155]
- Missy Mazzoli[136]
- Joanne Metcalf[156]
- Nathan Michel[157]
- Koji Nakano[158]
- Martijn Padding[159]
- Juliet Palmer[127]
- John Pickard[160]
- Damien Ricketson
- James Rolfe[127]
- Patrick Saint-Denis
- Rodney Sharman[161]
- Ric Sims
- Michael Smetanin[162]
- Paul Steenhuisen
- Calliope Tsoupaki
- Víctor Varela
- António Pinho Vargas
- Jasna Veličković[163]
- Lotta Wennäkoski[164]
- Julia Wolfe
- Sinta Wullur
- Ye Xiaogang[53]
- Jay Alan Yim
- Kristoffer Zegers
Pasquale Anfossi
Domenico Annibali
Conrad Ansorge
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Ansorge (1862–1930) studied with teachers including Franz Liszt.
George Antheil
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Alfredo Antonini
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Antonini (1901–1983) studied with teachers including Arturo Toscanini.
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Giuseppe Aprile
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Aprile (1731–1813) studied with teachers including Gregorio Sciroli.
Violet Archer
Bülent Arel
- Frederick Bianchi
- Conrad Cummings
- Joël-François Durand
- Anne LeBaron[177]
- Jing Jing Luo
- João Pedro Oliviera [pupils]
- Elizabeth Hoffman[178]
- Daria Semegen [pupils][50]
Anton Arensky
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Arensky (1861–1906) studied with teachers including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Dominick Argento
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Argento (born 1927) studied with teachers including Luigi Dallapiccola, Howard Hanson, Alan Hovhaness, Bernard Rogers, and Hugo Weisgall.
- Carol E. Barnett
- Leonard Danek
- Frank Felice
- Donald Keats [pupils]
- Juliana Hall [pupils]
- Richard Hillert
- Libby Larsen
- Richard Marriott[187]
- Arthur Maud
- Stephen Paulus
- Paul Reller
- Eric Stokes [pupils][188]
- David Evan Thomas
Carl Armbrust
Thomas Armstrong
Michael Arne
Richard Arnell
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Arnell (1917-2009) studied with teachers including John Ireland.
Simha Arom
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Arom (born 1930) studied with teachers including Jean Devémy.
Claudio Arrau
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Arrau (1903–1991) studied with teachers including Martin Krause.
- Roberto Bravo
- Ena Bronstein-Barton
- Stephen Drury
- Roberto Eyzaguirre
- Edith Fischer
- Ingeborg Gordin
- Karlrobert Kreiten
- Bennett Lerner
- Inés Leyva[194]
- Pilar Leyva[194]
- Philip Lorenz
- Ruth Nye[195]
- Garrick Ohlsson
- David Lively
- Rosalina Sackstein[citation needed]
- James Tocco
- Brigitte Wild[citation needed]
Désirée Artôt
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- Therésè Leschetizkaya-Dolinina[181]
Vicente Asencio
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Asencio (1908-1979) studied with teachers including Frank Marshall, Enric Morera i Viura, Joaquín Turina, and Ernesto Halffter.
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Robert Ashley
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Ashley (1930–2014) studied with teachers including Ross Lee Finney, Roberto Gerhard, and Wallingford Riegger.
- Beth Anderson[197][198]
- Kenneth Atchley
- John Bischoff
- Jay Cloidt
- Alex Dea
- Paul DeMarinis
- John Esposito
- Barbara Golden[199]
- Peter Gordon
- Scot Gresham-Lancaster
- Phil Harmonic[200]
- Jill Kroesen[200]
- Frankie Mann[200]
- Maggi Payne [pupils]
- Ann Sandifur [pupils]
- Laetitia Sonami
- Mark Trayle
- "Blue" Gene Tyranny [pupils]
- Rodney Waschka II
Bonifazio Asioli
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Asioli (1769–1832) studied with teachers including Angelo Morigi.
Thomas Attwood
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Attwood (1765-1838) studied with teachers including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, James Nares, and Edmund Ayrton.
Daniel Auber
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Auber (1782–1871) studied with teachers including Luigi Cherubini.
Louis Aubert
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Tony Aubin
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Leopold Auer
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- Joseph Achron[207]
- Margaret Berson [pupils]
- Leonid Bolotine[208]
- Georges Boulanger
- Raphael Bronstein
- Eddy Brown[181]
- Mischa Elman[209]
- Moritz Frenkel
- Konstanty Gorski [pupils]
- Jascha Heifetz [pupils][181][209]
- David Hochstein
- Georg Kulenkampff [pupils]
- Isolde Menges [pupils][210]
- Nathan Milstein [pupils][211]
- Emil Młynarski [pupils][211]
- Kathleen Parlow
- Miron Polyakin
- Simon Pullman
- Benno Rabinof
- Silvestre Revueltas[212]
- Clara Rockmore
- Toscha Seidel
- Boris Sibor [pupils][211]
- Greta af Sillén Roos[213]
- Jacques Singer
- Oscar Shumsky
- Eva Ruth Spalding[214]
- Paul Stassevitch
- Efrem Zimbalist[209][215]
Larry Austin
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Austin (born 1930) studied with teachers including Violet Archer, Andrew Imbrie, and Darius Milhaud.
Charles Avison
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Avison (1709–1770) studied with teachers including Francesco Geminiani.
Edmund Ayrton
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Ayrton (1734-1808) studied with teachers including James Nares.

B
Kees van Baaren
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Baaren (1906–1970) studied with teachers including Willem Pijper.
- Gilius van Bergeijk
- Will Eisma[217]
- Louis Andriessen [pupils][218]
- Reinbert de Leeuw [pupils]
- Misha Mengelberg
- Peter Schat
- Jan van Vlijmen
Milton Babbitt
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Theorists
Composers
- Bruce Adolphe [pupils]
- Kati Agocs
- Don Banks[220]
- Harrison Birtwistle [pupils][221]
- Bruce Brubaker [pupils]
- Benjamin Boretz [pupils][222]
- Daniel Catán[23]
- Richard Danielpour[223]
- Mario Davidovsky [pupils][224]
- Michael Dellaira
- Charles Dodge [pupils][219]
- Edwin Dugger[225]
- John Eaton [pupils][226]
- David Epstein[227]
- Brian Field
- Jonathan Harvey [pupils][228][229]
- John Heiss[230]
- Lejaren Hiller [pupils][229][231][232]
- Sydney Hodkinson [pupils][233]
- Stanley Jordan (jazz guitarist and composer)
- Laura Karpman[234]
- Michael Kassler[80]
- Paul Lansky [pupils][235]
- Peter Lieberson[236]
- Donald Martino[237][238]
- Richard Maxfield [pupils][229][239]
- Andrew Mead [pupils]
- John Melby
- Tobias Picker
- James K. Randall [pupils][219]
- Frederic Rzewski[240]
- Steven Christopher Sacco [pupils]
- Eric Salzman[241]
- Judith Shatin[242]
- Diane Thome [pupils]
- Richard Aaker Trythall
Other
- Stephen Sondheim[243] (theatre composer)
- Godfrey Winham[80]
August Wilhelm Bach
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A. W. Bach (1796–1869) studied with teachers including Carl Friedrich Zelter.
- Carl August Haupt [pupils]
- Gustav Lange
- August Gottfried Ritter [pupils]
- Johann Julius Schneider[244]
- Ferdinand Schultz[245]
- Ludwig Thiele[246]
- Ernst Adolf Wendt[247]
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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C.P.E. Bach (1714–1788) studied with teachers including Johann Sebastian Bach.
- Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwenke [pupils][248]
- Friedrich Wilhelm Rust[249]
- Johann Gottfried Vierling [pupils][250]
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wenckel[247]
Heinrich Bach
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- Johann Christoph Bach
- Johann Michael Bach
- Johann Heinrich Hildebrand [pupils][251]
Johann Christian Bach
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J.C. Bach (1735–1782) studied with teachers including Johann Sebastian Bach and Giovanni Battista Martini.
Johann Nikolaus Bach
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J.N. Bach (1669–1753) studied with teachers including Johann Christoph Bach and Johann Magnus Knüpfer.
Johann Sebastian Bach
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J.S. Bach (1685–1750) studied with teachers including Georg Böhm, his brother Johann Christoph Bach, and Dieterich Buxtehude
- Carl Friedrich Abel[253]
- Johann Friedrich Agricola[254][255]
- Johann Christoph Altnickol[253]
- Anna Magdalena Bach
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach [pupils]
- Gottfried Heinrich Bach
- Johann Bernhard Bach[256]
- Johann Christian Bach [pupils][23]
- Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
- Johann Ernst Bach II[23]
- Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach[253]
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach [pupils]
- Johann Ludwig Dietel[257]
- Johann Friedrich Doles[253][258]
- Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber[253][259]
- Johann Gottlieb Goldberg [pupils][253]
- Gottfried August Homilius [pupils][253]
- Johann Peter Kellner [pupils][260]
- Johann Kirnberger [pupils][23][253]
- Johann Christian Kittel [pupils][54][261]
- Johann Ludwig Krebs[262][263]
- Johann Tobias Krebs[253]
- Johann Andreas Kuhnau [pupils][264][265]
- Lorenz Christoph Mizler
- Johann Gottfried Müthel[253]
- Christoph Nichelmann[266]
- Johann Schneider[253]
- Johann Martin Schubart[267]
- Johann Friedrich Schweinitz (1708–1780)
- Johann Nikolaus Tischer [pupils][268]
- Christoph Transchel[253]
- Johann Caspar Vogler[253]
- Johann Gottfried Walther[256]
- Johann Wilhelm[254]
- Johann Heinrich Zang[269]
- Johann Gotthilf Ziegler [pupils] (1715)
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
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W.F. Bach (1710–1784) studied with teachers including Johann Sebastian Bach.
Oskar Back
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- Will Eisma[217]
- Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of the Belgians
- Herman Krebbers [pupils][211]
- Alma Moodie
- Theo Olof
- Emmy Verhey
- Davina van Wely
Agathe Backer Grøndahl
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Backer Grøndahl (1847–1907) studied with teachers including Hans von Bülow, Halfdan Kjerulf, Theodor Kullak, Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, Franz Liszt, and Richard Wüerst.
Eva Gancedo
Ernst Bacon
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Carl Baermann
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Baermann (1839–1913) studied with teachers including Peter Cornelius, Franz Lachner, and Franz Liszt.
Pierre Baillot
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Baillot (1771–1842) studied with teachers including Giovanni Battista Viotti.
- Charles Auguste de Bériot [pupils][211]
- Charles Dancla [pupils][276]
- Narcisse Girard [pupils]
- Paul Guérin [pupils][277][better source needed]
- François Habeneck [pupils][278]
- Victor Magnien [pupils]
- Jean-Pierre Maurin [pupils][211]
- Jacques Féréol Mazas[165][279]
- Lambert Joseph Meerts[280]
- André Robberechts [pupils][211]
- Eugène Sauzay [pupils][281]
- Waldemar Thrane[282]
Simon Bainbridge
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Giuseppe Baini
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Baini (1775–1844) studied with teachers including Giuseppe Jannacconi.
Edward Bairstow
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Bairstow (1874–1946) studied with teachers including Walter Galpin Alcock, Frederick Bridge, and John Farmer.
- Ernest Bullock [pupils][292][293]
- Cyril Stanley Christopher[294]
- Gerald Finzi[295]
- Richard Hall [pupils][296]
- Francis Jackson [pupils][297]
- Elsie Suddaby[298]
Claude Baker
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Julius Baker
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Reginald Tustin Baker
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R. T. Baker (1900-1966) studied with teachers including Herbert Brewer.
Mily Balakirev
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Sergey Balasanian
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Balasanian (1902-1982) studied with teachers including Dmitry Kabalevsky.
Claude Balbastre
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Artur Balsam
Nikhil Banerjee
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Banerjee (1931–1986) studied with teachers including Allauddin Khan.
Granville Bantock
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Charles Barbandt
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Barbandt (1716–after 1775) studied with teachers including unknown .
Samuel Barber
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Barber (1910–1981) studied with teachers including Rosario Scalero, Richard Stöhr, and Isabelle Vengerova.
Auguste Barbereau
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Barbereau (1799–1879) studied with teachers including Anton Reicha.
Stanisław Barcewicz
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Barcewicz (1858–1929) studied with teachers including Jan Hřímalý, Apolinary Kątski, Ferdinand Laub, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Woldemar Bargiel
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Bargiel (1828–1897) studied with teachers including Siegfried Dehn, Niels Gade, Ignaz Moscheles, and Julius Rietz.
Clarence Barlow
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Joseph Barnby
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Georges Barrère
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Barrère (1876–1944) studied with teachers including Paul Taffanel.
William Lewis Barrett
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Barrett (1847–1927) studied with teachers including Richard Shepherd Rockstro.
Karl Heinrich Barth
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Béla Bartók
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Bartók (1881–1945) studied with teachers including Ernő Dohnányi, Hans von Koessler, and István Thomán.
- Violet Archer [pupils][310][311]
- Paul Arma
- Ernő Balogh
- Jack Beeson [pupils][312][313][314]
- Alice Carrard
- Andor Földes
- Ferenc Fricsay
- Laszlo Halasz [pupils][315]
- Elisabeth Klein
- György Kósa
- Joseph Kosma
- Lili Kraus
- Irén Marik
- Ditta Pásztory-Bartók[316]
- Fritz Reiner [pupils][317]
- György Sándor [pupils][318]
- Tibor Serly
- Georg Solti
- Júlia Székely
- Sándor Veress
Erasmo Bartolo
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Bartolo (1606–1656) studied with teachers including G.B. de Bellis.
Marmaduke Barton
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Barton (1865–1938) studied with teachers including John Francis Barnett and Charles Villiers Stanford.
Dmitri Bashkirov
Leslie Bassett
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Bassett (1923–1966) studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger, Mario Davidovsky, Ross Lee Finney, and Homer Keller.
- William Albright [pupils][324]
- Lettie Alston
- John Anthony Lennon
- Andy Brick
- John Burke
- Evan Chambers
- Robin Cox
- Sean Hickey
- Gregory Sullivan Isaacs [pupils]
- Mark Kilstofte
- Gabriela Lena Frank
- Joseph Lukasik
- Kevin Malone[325]
- Robert Morris [pupils]
- Russell Peck
- Joseph Pehrson
- Daniel Perlongo [pupils]
- Frank Ticheli
- Richard Toensing
- Gregory Sullivan Isaacs
Harold Bauer
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Harold Bauer (1873–1951) studied with teachers including Ignacy Jan Paderewski.
- John Elvin[326]
Marion Bauer
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Bauer (1882–1955) studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger, Paul Ertel, André Gedalge, and Walter Henry Rothwell.
Julián Bautista
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Bautista (1901–1961) studied with teachers including Conrado del Campo.
Arnold Bax
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William Bayley
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Bayley (1810–1858) studied with teachers including Unknown .
- William Alexander Barratt[329]
- Henry Gadsby [pupils][330]
- John Stainer [pupils][330]
- Arthur Sullivan [pupils][330]
François Bazin
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Bazin (1816–1878) studied with teachers including Daniel Auber, Henri-Montan Berton, and Fromental Halévy.
Antonio Bazzini
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Bazzini (1818–1897) studied with teachers including Faustino Camisani.
- Giuseppe Frugatta [pupils][333]
- Giacomo Puccini [pupils][23]
Robert Beadell
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- Eugene O'Brien [pupils]
- Frank Tirro
Richard William Beaty
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Beaty (c.1799–1883) studied with teachers including (unknown) .
- Richard Harrison[334]
- Robert Prescott Stewart [pupils][335]
Franz Ignaz Beck
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Reginald Bedford
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Bedford (1909–1985) studied with teachers including Lyell Gustin, Percy Grainger, Carl Friedberg, and Robert Casadesus.
- Bob Hahn[337]
- Gordon Hancock[337]
- Elaine Keillor[337]
- Marjan Mozetich[337]
Jack Beeson
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Beethoven (1770–1827) studied with teachers including Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Gilles van den Eeden, Joseph Haydn, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Antonio Salieri, and Johann Baptist Schenk.
David Behrman
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D. Behrman (born 1937) studied with teachers including Gordon Mumma, Henri Pousseur, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
William Henry Bell
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Vladimir Belov
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Belov (1906–1989) studied with teachers including Felix Blumenfeld.
- Aleksandr Baltin[347]
- Edison Denisov [pupils]
Felix Benda
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F. Benda (1708–1768) studied with teachers including Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský.
Franz Benda
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- Leopold August Abel[349]
- Josef Benda [pupils]
- Josephus Andreas Fodor [pupils]
- Johann Wilhelm Hertel [pupils]
- Leopold Friedrich Raab [pupils]
- Karl Joseph Rodewald[350]
- Friedrich Wilhelm Rust[249]
- Friedrich Ludwig Seidel [pupils]
- Franz Adam Veichtner [pupils]
- Ernst Wilhelm Wolf [pupils]
Agostino Bendinelli
Julius Benedict
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Benedict (1804–1885) studied with teachers including Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Carl Maria von Weber.
Orazio Benevoli
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Benevoli (1605–1672) studied with teachers including Vincenzo Ugolini.
- Ercole Bernabei [pupils][354]
- Gaetano Carpani [pupils][355]
- Antimo Liberati [pupils][356]
Paul Ben-Haim
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Ben-Haim (1897–1984) studied with teachers including Friedrich Klose.
Arthur Benjamin
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Benjamin (1893–1960) studied with teachers including Frederic Cliffe, Thomas Dunhill, and Charles Villiers Stanford.
Frank Bennett
Richard Rodney Bennett
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Bennett (1936–2012) studied with teachers including Howard Ferguson, Leonnox Berkeley, and Pierre Boulez.
William Sterndale Bennett
this teacher's teachers
Bennett (1816–1875) studied with teachers including William Crotch, William Henry Holmes, and Cipriani Potter.
- Francis Edward Bache [pupils]
- Frederick Scotson Clark [pupils][359]
- William Cusins [pupils]
- Florence Ashton Marshall[360]
- Tobias Matthay [pupils][361]
- Sebastian Bach Mills[362]
- Arthur O'Leary [pupils][363]
- Hubert Parry [pupils]
- Joseph Parry [pupils]
- W. S. Rockstro [pupils]
- Alice Mary Smith [pupils]
- Charles Steggall[364]
- Arthur Sullivan [pupils]
- Thomas Wingham [pupils]
Antonín Bennewitz
this teacher's teachers
Bennewitz (1833–1926) studied with teachers including Moritz Mildner.
François Benoist
this teacher's teachers
Benoist (1794–1878) studied with teachers including Charles Simon Catel.
Peter Benoit
this teacher's teachers
1834–1901 studied with teachers including François-Joseph Fétis.
Warren Benson
- Claude Baker [pupils]
- Carter Pann [pupils]
- Robert Paterson[45]
- Paul Phillips
- Annette LeSiege [pupils] (uncertain)[41]
Emerik Beran
Charles Auguste de Bériot
Yara Bernette
this teacher's teachers
Yara Bernette studied with teachers including Jose Kliass.
- Sylvio Robazzi [pupils]
Alban Berg
this teacher's teachers
Berg (1885–1935) studied with teachers including Arnold Schoenberg.
Arthur Berger
this teacher's teachers
Berger (1912–2003) studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger, Darius Milhaud, and Walter Piston.
Ludwig Berger
Erik Bergman
William Bergsma
this teacher's teachers
Oscar Beringer
this teacher's teachers
Lennox Berkeley
this teacher's teachers
Berkeley (1903–1989) studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger.
Luciano Berio
this teacher's teachers
Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot
this teacher's teachers
Bériot (1833–1914) studied with teachers including Sigismond Thalberg.
Hector Berlioz
this teacher's teachers
- Asger Hamerik[397]
- Gustav Roguski[398]
Ercole Bernabei
this teacher's teachers
Bernabei (1622–1687) studied with teachers including Orazio Benevoli.
Antonio Bernacchi
this teacher's teachers
Bernacchi (1685–1756) studied with teachers including Francesco Antonio Pistocchi.
Nicolas Bernier
this teacher's teachers
Bernier (1664–1734) studied with teachers including Antonio Caldara.
- André Chéron[401]
- Louis-Claude Daquin[402]
- Jean-Marie Leclair[401]
Leonard Bernstein
this teacher's teachers
Bernstein (1918–1990) studied with teachers including Helen Coates, Aaron Copland, Heinrich Gebhard, Edward Burlingame Hill, Serge Koussevitzky, Walter Piston, Fritz Reiner, Rosario Scalero, Randall Thompson, and Isabelle Vengerova.
Martin Berteau
Henri Berthelier
this teacher's teachers
Berthelier (1856–1918) studied with teachers including Jean-Pierre Maurin.
Henri Bertini
this teacher's teachers
Bertini (1798–1876) studied with teachers including unknown .
Henri-Montan Berton
this teacher's teachers
Ferdinando Bertoni
this teacher's teachers
Bertoni (1725–1813) studied with teachers including Giovanni Battista Martini.
- Giovanni Battista Grazioli[411]
- Andrea Luchesi [pupils]
- Simon Mayr [pupils][165]
- Gaspare Pacchierotti
- Ferdinando Gasparo Turrini[412]
Franz Berwald
this teacher's teachers
Berwald (1796–1868) studied with teachers including Édouard Du Puy.
William Berwald
this teacher's teachers
Berwald (1864-1948) studied with teachers including Josef Rheinberger.
William Thomas Best
Carlo Besozzi
Philip Bezanson
- M. William Karlins [pupils]
- Robert Lombardo [pupils][415]
- James Yannatos
- Olly Wilson
Francesco Bianchi
this teacher's teachers
Franz Bieling
- Joseph Ignaz Bieling[416]
E. Power Biggs
this teacher's teachers
Biggs (1906–1977) studied with teachers including G. D. Cunningham.
Marie Bigot
William Billings
- Elisha West[417]
Harrison Birtwistle
this teacher's teachers
Birtwistle (born 1934) studied with teachers including Milton Babbitt, Richard Hall, Reginald Kell, and Humphrey Procter-Gregg.
- James Ingram[418][419]
- Dominic Muldowney[420]
- Karola Obermueller[421]
Henry Bishop
this teacher's teachers
Bishop (1787–1856) studied with teachers including Francesco Bianchi.
Giovanni Ambrogio Bissone
this teacher's teachers
G. A. Bissone (1655–1726) studied with teachers including Unknown .
Giancarlo Bizzi
Boris Blacher
this teacher's teachers
Blacher (1903–1975) studied with teachers including Friedrich Koch.
- Kalevi Aho
- Elaine Barkin[423]
- Herbert Baumann[424]
- Christopher Brown [pupils]
- Francis Burt[425]
- Frank Corcoran [pupils]
- Gottfried von Einem
- Heimo Erbse
- Paul Fetler [pupils]
- Charles Fussell[426]
- Fritz Geißler
- Klaus Huber [pupils][23]
- Maki Ishii
- Giselher Klebe
- Malcolm Lipkin
- Robert Lombardo [pupils][415]
- Joel Mandelbaum[427]
- Aribert Reimann
- Noam Sheriff[23]
- Paul Gutama Soegijo[428]
- Richard Aaker Trythall[429]
- Richard Wernick [pupils]
- Isang Yun [pupils]
Easley Blackwood
this teacher's teachers
Blackwood (born 1933) studied with teachers including Nadia Boulanger, Paul Hindemith, and Olivier Messiaen.
- W. A. Mathieu
- Paul Rapoport
- David O'Fallon
Michel Blavet
Ernest Bloch
this teacher's teachers
Bloch (1880–1959) studied with teachers including Iwan Knorr, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Ludwig Thuille, and Eugène Ysaÿe.
- George Antheil [pupils][431][432]
- Ernst Bacon [pupils][272]
- Mark Brunswick[433]
- Richard Cumming[434]
- Ethel Glenn Hier[435]
- Frederick Jacobi [pupils]
- Zoel Parenteau[436]
- Quincy Porter [pupils]
- Vera Nicolaevna Preobrajenska [pupils]
- Bernard Rogers [pupils]
- Roger Sessions [pupils]
- Halsey Stevens [pupils]
Joseph Bloch
Karl-Birger Blomdahl
this teacher's teachers
Blomdahl (1916–1968) studied with teachers including Hilding Rosenberg.
Robert Bloom
this teacher's teachers
Bloom (1908–1994) studied with teachers including Marcel Tabuteau.
John Blow
this teacher's teachers
Blow (1649–1708) studied with teachers including Henry Cooke, Christopher Gibbons, and John Hingston.
Felix Blumenfeld
this teacher's teachers
Blumenfeld (1863–1931) studied with teachers including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anton Rubinstein, and Fedor Stein.
- Vladimir Horowitz
- Simon Barere
- Vladimir Belov [pupils]
- Maria Yudina
- Anatole Kitain
- Anna Stolyarevich
- Maria Grinberg
Joseph von Blumenthal
this teacher's teachers
Blumenthal (1782–1850) studied with teachers including Georg Joseph Vogler.
Nicolas-Charles Bochsa
this teacher's teachers
Bochsa (1789–1856) studied with teachers including Franz Beck, Charles-Simon Catel, and François Joseph Naderman.
Carl Maria von Bocklet
this teacher's teachers
Bocklet (1801–1881) studied with teachers including Bedřich Diviš Weber.
Peer Bode
Theobald Boehm
- Thomas Mollenhauer[448]
Semyon Bogatyrev
Johann Balthasar Böhm
Georg Böhm
this teacher's teachers
G. Böhm (1661–1733) studied with teachers including Johann Balthasar Böhm, highly probably Johann Heinrich Hildebrand, and likely Johann Adam Reincken
- Johann Christian Bach (Erfurt)
- Johann Sebastian Bach [pupils] (probably)
Joseph Böhm
this teacher's teachers
J. Böhm (1795–1876) studied with teachers including Pierre Rode.
- Sigismund Bachrich
- Jakob Dont [pupils][211]
- Matthias Durst [pupils]
- Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst[450]
- Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst [pupils][211]
- Jakob Grün [pupils][211]
- Carl Heissler [pupils][451]
- Georg Hellmesberger Sr. [pupils][450]
- Jenő Hubay [pupils]
- Joseph Joachim [pupils][450]
- Eduard Rappoldi [pupils][452]
- Ede Reményi[453]
Ferdinand Böhme
this teacher's teachers
Böhme (1815–1883) studied with teachers including Moritz Hauptmann, Carl Schmittbach, Louis Spohr, and Carl Friedrich Zöllner.
- William B. Bradbury[454]
- Willem Kes [pupils][455]
- Cornelis van der Linden[456]
François-Adrien Boieldieu
this teacher's teachers
Boieldieu (1775–1834) studied with teachers including Charles Broche.
William Bolcom
this teacher's teachers
Bolcom (born 1938) studied with teachers including Berthe Poncy Jacobson, George Frederick McKay, Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud, and John Verrall.
- Derek Bermel
- Andrew Bishop[458]
- Gabriela Lena Frank
- Kenneth Hesketh [pupils][287]
- Chihchun Chi-sun Lee[459]
- David T. Little
- Carter Pann [pupils]
- Joel Puckett
- Elena Ruehr
- Felicia Sandler[460]
- Matthew Tommasini[461]
Carlos Bonell
this teacher's teachers
Bonell (b. 1949) studied with teachers including John Williams.
Giuseppe Bonno
this teacher's teachers
Bonno (1711–1788) studied with teachers including Francesco Durante, Leonardo Leo, and Johann Georg Reinhardt.
Giovanni Maria Bononcini
this teacher's teachers
Bononcini (1642–1678) studied with teachers including Marco Uccellini.
Josiah Booth
Tomás Borba
- Rui Coelho[462]
- Ivo Cruz[463]
- Luís de Freitas Branco[464]
- Fernando Lopes-Graça[465]
Marco Bordogni
- Sophie Cruvelli
- Giovanni Matteo Mario[466]
- Sims Reeves[467]
- Maschinka Schubert[468]
- Anna Thillon[246]
Benjamin Boretz
this teacher's teachers
Boretz (born 1934) studied with teachers including Milton Babbitt, Lukas Foss, Darius Milhaud, and Roger Sessions.
Giovanni Borghi
Felix Borowski
Hélène Boschi
this teacher's teachers
Marco Enrico Bossi
this teacher's teachers
Bossi (1861–1925) studied with teachers including Amilcare Ponchielli.
Nadia Boulanger
this teacher's teachers
Neither Boulanger nor Annette Dieudonné, her lifelong friend and assistant, kept a record of every student who studied with Boulanger. In addition, it is virtually impossible to determine the exact nature of an individual's private study with Boulanger. All in all, Boulanger is believed to have taught a very large number of students from Europe, Australia, Mexico, Argentina and Canada, as well as over 600 American musicians.
- A
- Douglas Allanbrook
- Martin Amlin
- José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado
- Ruth Anderson
- István Anhalt
- Mireya Arboleda [pupils]
- B
- Grażyna Bacewicz
- Burt Bacharach
- Daniel Barenboim
- Leslie Bassett [pupils]
- Marion Bauer [pupils][327][328][471]
- Elaine Bearer[472]
- John S. Beckett
- John Beckwith
- Robert Russell Bennett
- Roderic von Bennigsen[473]
- Arthur Berger [pupils][474]
- Lennox Berkeley [pupils], her first English student[475][476]
- Herman Berlinski
- Mary Berry
- Vanraj Bhatia
- İdil Biret
- Diane Bish
- Maurice Blackburn
- Easley Blackwood Jr. [pupils][477]
- Marc Blitzstein[478]
- Cecilia Clare Bocard
- Lili Boulanger[475]
- Damjana Bratuž
- Peter Brewis
- Irene Britton Smith[479]
- Mark Brunswick[433]
- Walter Buczynski
- Donald Byrd
- C
- Oleg Caetani
- William Caplin
- Elliott Carter [pupils]
- Alejandro García Caturla[480]
- Francis Chagrin[481]
- Paul Chihara
- John Chowning [pupils]
- William Sloane Coffin
- Robert Cogan
- Joel Cohen
- Marius Constant[482]
- David Conte
- Paul Cooper [pupils]
- Aaron Copland [pupils][475]
- Jean Coulthard
- Noah Creshevsky
- Tan Crone
- Maria Curcio [pupils]
- Clifford Curzon [pupils][483]
- Charles Cushing [pupils]
- Gabriel Cusson
- D
- Ingolf Dahl [pupils]
- Isabelle Delorme [pupils]
- Kenwood Dennard[484]
- Robert Nathaniel Dett
- Liam Devlin
- David Diamond [pupils]
- Ding Shande
- John Woods Duke
- E
- F
- Armando José Fernandes[485]
- Beatriz Ferreyra
- Scott Fields
- Irving Fine [pupils][486][487][488]
- Ross Lee Finney [pupils][295][376]
- Charles Fox
- Arthur Frackenpohl
- Jean Françaix[475]
- G
- Rosa García [pupils]
- John Eliot Gardiner
- Kenneth Gilbert
- Egberto Gismonti [pupils]
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks
- Philip Glass[475][489]
- Richard Franko Goldman
- Jay Gottlieb[490]
- Donald Grantham
- Gigi Gryce[491]
- Gerardo Guevara
- H
- Alexei Haieff
- Adolphus Hailstork
- Hermann Haller
- Gerre Hancock
- Donald Harris
- Roy Harris [pupils][475][492]
- Eugene Haynes [pupils]
- Pierre Henry[493]
- Peter Hill
- H. Wiley Hitchcock
- Joseph Horovitz [pupils]
- Mary Howe
- Susan Hurley
- Karel Husa[23]
- I
- J
- K
- Robert Kapilow
- Vítězslava Kaprálová
- Harrison Kerr
- Hidayat Inayat Khan
- Noor Inayat Khan
- Vilayat Inayat Khan
- Bryan Kelly
- Wojciech Kilar
- John Kirkpatrick[23]
- Ralph Kirkpatrick
- Peter Klatzow [pupils]
- Anna Maria Klechniowska
- Peter Paul Koprowski
- Dina Koston
- Leo Kraft [pupils]
- Zygmunt Krauze
- Gail Kubik
- Johan Kvandal
- L
- John Lambert [pupils]
- John La Montaine [pupils]
- Philip Lasser
- Noël Lee
- Denoe Leedy
- Michel Legrand
- Jacques Leguerney[494]
- Leonard Lehrman
- Robert D. Levin[495]
- Gilbert Levine
- Anthony Lewis
- Robert Hall Lewis
- Dee Libbey
- Dinu Lipatti
- Normand Lockwood [pupils]
- M
- Fouzieh Majd
- Judith Malafronte
- John Manduell[388]
- Marcelle de Manziarly
- Igor Markevitch
- Sylvia Marlowe
- Roger Matton
- Bernadetta Matuszczak
- Nicholas Maw [pupils][389][390]
- Boyd McDonald
- Joyce Mekeel
- Gian Carlo Menotti [pupils]
- Jeremy Menuhin
- Pierre Mercure
- Krzysztof Meyer
- Edward Salim Michael
- Yvar Mikhashoff[496]
- Robert Moevs
- Pierre Mollet
- Marguerite Monnot
- Errol Morris
- Dorothy Rudd Moore
- Douglas Moore
- Thea Musgrave [pupils][497]
- Zygmunt Mycielski, probably her first Polish student[476]
- N
- O
- P
- Jean Papineau-Couture
- Alex Panamá
- Thomas Pasatieri[499]
- Don Paterson
- Nikola Petin[500]
- Michel Perrault
- Astor Piazzolla
- Julia Perry
- Daniel Pinkham[86][87]
- Walter Piston [pupils][475][501][502]
- Manuel M. Ponce
- Anthony Powers
- Lila Pradell
- Marta Ptaszynska
- R
- Priaulx Rainier [pupils][503]
- Joe Raposo
- Irma Ravinale[504]
- Rosette Renshaw
- Willard Rhodes
- John Donald Robb
- Robert Xavier Rodriguez
- Bernard Rogers [pupils]
- José Rolón
- Jean Alain Roussel
- Joseph Willard Roosevelt
- Carol Rosenberger
- Laurence Rosenthal
- Edwin Roxburgh [pupils]
- S
- Rico Saccani
- Cláudio Santoro [pupils]
- Allen Sapp
- Avi Schönfeld
- Kazimierz Serocki
- Mordecai Seter [pupils][505]
- Robert Shafer
- Harold Shapero [pupils]
- Allen Shawn
- Robert Sherlaw Johnson [pupils]
- Verdina Shlonsky [pupils]
- Elie Siegmeister [pupils]
- Kazimierz Sikorski [pupils][506]
- Malcolm Singer
- Stanisław Skrowaczewski
- Marcelle Soulage
- James Stevens
- Richard Stoker
- Maurine Stuart
- Soulima Stravinsky
- Charles Strouse
- Sidney Sukoenig[507]
- Rodica Sutzu
- Howard Swanson[508]
- Tadeusz Szeligowski [pupils]
- Henryk Szeryng
- T
- Louise Talma
- Melvyn Tan[509]
- Nell Tangeman
- Jon Nichimyoun Taylor[510]
- Serge Tcherepnin [pupils]
- Bob Telson
- Virgil Thomson [pupils][511]
- Michiko Toyama
- Lester Trimble
- David Tunley
- Geirr Tveitt
- V
- W
- George Theophilus Walker[512]
- David Ward-Steinman
- Elinor Remick Warren
- Beveridge Webster
- Richard Westenburg
- George Balch Wilson
- Antoni Wit
- Phelps D. Witter[513]
- James Wood [pupils]
- Russell Woollen
- X
- Y
- Z
Pierre Boulez
this teacher's teachers
- Gilbert Amy[515]
- Charles Ansbacher
- Richard Rodney Bennett[516][517]
- John Carewe [pupils][518]
- Jeff Cook[519]
- Marc-André Dalbavie[520]
- Michael Daugherty [pupils][521]
- Richard Dufallo[522]
- Jean-Claude Éloy[523][524][525]
- Serge Garant[526]
- Jacques Guyonnet[527]
- Heinz Holliger[528]
- Hans Ulrich Lehmann[529]
- Jeffrey Means[530]
- Gilberto Mendes
- Henri Pousseur [pupils][531]
- Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil [pupils]
- Bernard Rands [pupils]
- Robert Rowe[532]
- Serge Tcherepnin [pupils]
Adrian Boult
this teacher's teachers
Boult (1889–1983) studied with teachers including Hugh Allen.
York Bowen
this teacher's teachers
Bowen (1884–1961) studied with teachers including Frederick Corder, Alfred Izard, and Tobias Matthay.
Armen Boyajian
William Boyce
this teacher's teachers
Martin Boykan
this teacher's teachers
Johannes Brahms
this teacher's teachers
- Gustav Jenner
- William Charles Ernest Seeboeck [pupils][538]
Hans Brandts-Buys
Henry Brant
- Linda Bouchard
- David A. Jaffe
- Tio Macaro
- Joan Tower
Marianne Brandt
- Therésè Leschetizkaya-Dolinina[181]
Louis Brassin
this teacher's teachers
Brassin (1840–1884) studied with teachers including Ignaz Moscheles.
- Arthur De Greef [pupils]
- Paul Ertel [pupils][540]
- Willem Kes [pupils]
- Gennady Korganov
- James Kwast [pupils]
- Franz Rummel
- Vasily Safonov [pupils]
- Wassily Sapellnikoff
- Edgar Tinel [pupils]
- Alfred Wotquenne
Walter Braunfels
this teacher's teachers
Braunfels (1882–1954) studied with teachers including James Kwast, Theodor Leschetizky, Felix Mottl, and Ludwig Thuille.
Alfred Brendel
this teacher's teachers
Martin Bresnick
this teacher's teachers
Herbert Brewer
this teacher's teachers
Brewer (1879–1941) studied with teachers including Frederick Bridge, Charles Harford Lloyd, Walter Parratt, and Charles Villiers Stanford.
Frank Bridge
this teacher's teachers
Frederick Bridge
this teacher's teachers
- Edward Bairstow [pupils][84]
- Arthur Benjamin [pupils]
- Herbert Brewer [pupils]
- Arnold Dolmetsch
- Noel Gay
- Lloyd Powell
- Landon Ronald
- Herbert Sharpe [pupils]
- Frank Tapp
- Bryceson Treharne [pupils][551]
- Henry Davan Wetton[552]
- Mary Wurm[553]
- John Ebenezer West[554]
Richard Brind
Benjamin Britten
this teacher's teachers
Britten (1913-1976) studied with teachers including Arthur Benjamin, Frank Bridge, and John Ireland.
José Brocá
this teacher's teachers
Brocá (1805-1882) studied with teachers including Dionisio Aguado.
Charles Broche
this teacher's teachers
Adolph Brodsky
this teacher's teachers
Brodsky (1851–1929) studied with teachers including Joseph Hellmesberger Sr..
Jascha Brodsky
this teacher's teachers
Moritz Brosig
Harriet Brower
this teacher's teachers
Brower (1869–1928) studied with teachers including Amy Fay.
Christopher Brown
this teacher's teachers
Earle Brown
- George Brunner
- Michael Daugherty [pupils]
- Brian Evans
- Beatriz Ferreyra
- Joe Jones
Bruce Brubaker
this teacher's teachers
Max Bruch
this teacher's teachers
Anton Bruckner
this teacher's teachers
Bruckner (1824–1896) studied with teachers including Simon Sechter.
- Guido Adler [pupils]
- Jan Drozdowski [pupils][568]
- Camillo (Kamillo) Horn [pupils][569]
- Émile Jaques-Dalcroze [pupils][570]
- Friedrich Klose [pupils][564]
- Joseph Pembaur [pupils][80][275]
- Richard Robert [pupils][571]
- Hans Rott[572]
- Franz Schmidt [pupils][573]
- Friedrich Spigl[574]
- Josef Vockner[575]
Fritz Brun
this teacher's teachers
Brun (1878–1959) studied with teachers including Franz Wüllner.
Herbert Brün
this teacher's teachers
- Rick Burkhardt[576]
- Dennis Eberhard
- Chris Granner
- Stuart Saunders Smith
Hans Buchner
this teacher's teachers
Buchner (1483–1538) studied with teachers including Paul Hofhaimer.
Dudley Buck
this teacher's teachers
Buck (1839–1909) studied with teachers including Louis Plaidy.
- Paul Ambrose
- James Francis Cooke
- William Howland
- William Harold Neidlinger[577]
- Daniel Protheroe
- Harry Rowe Shelley [pupils][578]
- Charles Sanford Skilton
- Raymond Huntington Woodman[579]
Percy Buck
this teacher's teachers
Buck (1871–1947) studied with teachers including Francis Davenport, Charles Joseph Frost, Charles Harford Lloyd, Walter Parratt, and Hubert Parry.
Harold Budd
Ernest Bullock
this teacher's teachers
Bullock (1890–1979) studied with teachers including Edward Bairstow.
Hans von Bülow
this teacher's teachers
Bülow (1830–1894) studied with teachers including Carl Eberwein, Moritz Hauptmann, Franz Liszt, Henry Litolff, Louis Plaidy, and Friedrich Wieck.
- Agathe Backer Grøndahl [pupils]
- Karl Heinrich Barth [pupils]
- Walter Damrosch[584]
- Asger Hamerik[397]
- Frits Hartvigson [pupils][585]
- Sophie Menter[586]
- Adolf Mohr[587]
- Cornelius Rübner[588]
- Hermann Scholtz[562]
- Max Schwarz[589]
- José Vianna da Motta[590]
Friedrich Burgmüller
Adolf Busch
this teacher's teachers
- Dea Forsdyke
- Yehudi Menuhin
- Frederick Neumann
Alan Bush
this teacher's teachers
Ferruccio Busoni
this teacher's teachers
Busoni (1866–1924) studied with teachers including Salomon Jadassohn, Wilhelm Mayer, and Carl Reinecke.
- Guido Agosti [pupils]
- Maud Allan (the noted dancer)
- Gregor Beklemischeff
- Alexander Brailowsky
- Winifred Burston
- Augusta Cottlow
- Natalie Curtis
- Theophil Demetriescu
- Woldemar Freeman
- Ignaz Friedman [pupils]
- Herbert Fryer [pupils][594]
- Gottfried Galston
- Rudolph Ganz
- Stanley Gardner
- Aurelio Giorni
- Percy Grainger [pupils][595]
- Louis Gruenberg[596]
- Guido Guerrini
- Philipp Jarnach [pupils][597]
- Leo Kestenberg
- Frederick Loewe
- Otto Luening [pupils][598]
- Dimitri Mitropoulos
- Selim Palmgren[168]
- Egon Petri [pupils][599]
- Lloyd Powell
- Beryl Rubinstein
- Gisella Selden-Goth
- Leo Sirota
- Eduard Steuermann [pupils]
- Theodor Szántó
- Gino Tagliapietra
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- Józef Turczyński [pupils]
- Edgard Varèse [pupils]
- Wladimir Vogel [pupils][600]
- Kurt Weill
- Edward Weiss
- Stefan Wolpe [pupils][601]
- Michael von Zadora[602]
Henri Büsser
this teacher's teachers
Ludwig Bussler
this teacher's teachers
Arthur Butterworth
this teacher's teachers
Butterworth (1923–2014) studied with teachers including Richard Hall.
Dieterich Buxtehude
this teacher's teachers
Buxtehude (c. 1637/1639 – 1707) studied with teachers including Johann Theile.
