List of classical pianists

This list of classical pianists illustrates the tradition of pianist training in historical order during the 19th and early 20th centuries, which for the majority of well-known classical pianists can be traced back to a few lines / schools. Since the middle of the 20th century, however, the meaning of the "famous teacher" , which originated in Romanticism, has declined.

The students are indented under the (most important) teacher and, as far as this is still possible, sorted chronologically. For a more comprehensive list, sorted by alphabet, see List of Pianists .

Clementi - Czerny - Liszt / Leszetycki line

Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)
- Johann Baptist Cramer (1771-1858)
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
  - Sigismund Thalberg (1812–1871)
  - Adolf von Henselt (1814–1889)
- John Field (1782-1837)
- Ignaz Moscheles (1794–1870)
  - Henry Litolff (1818-1891)
  - Felix Draeseke (1835-1913)
  - Louis Brassin (1840-1884)
    - Arthur De Greef (1862-1940)
  - Ernst Perabo (1845–1920)
- Carl Czerny (1791-1857)
  - Anton Door (1833-1919)
  - Theodor Kullak (1818–1882)
    - Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924)
    - Alfred Grünfeld (1852-1924)
    - James Kwast (1852-1927)
      - Percy Grainger (1882–1961)
    - Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925)
  - Josef Dachs (1825-1896)
    - Wladimir von Pachmann (1848–1933)
    - Isabelle Vengerova (1877-1956)
      - Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
  - Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
    - Karl Klindworth (1830-1916)
      - Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924)
    - Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf (1830–1913)
    - Hans von Bülow (1830-1894)
      - Karl Heinrich Barth (1847–1922)
        
        Arthur Rubinstein (1887–1982)
        
        Wilhelm Kempff (1895–1991)
        
        Mitsuko Uchida (* 1948)
        
        Gerhard Oppitz (* 1953)
    - Carl Tausig (1841–1871)
      - Adolf Schulz-Evler (1852–1905)
    - Sophie Menter (1846-1918)
      - Vasily Sapelnikow (1867-1941)
    - Anton Urspruch (1850–1907)
    - Martin Krause (1853-1918)
      - Edwin Fischer (1886–1960)
        
        Conrad Hansen (1906-2002)
        
        Grete Sultan (1906-2005)
        
        Katja Andy (1907-2013)
        
        Paul Badura-Skoda (1927-2019)
        
        Alfred Brendel (* 1931)
      - Claudio Arrau (1903-1991)
      - Martha Remmert (1853–1941)
    - Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
    - István Thomán (1862–1940)
      - Ernst von Dohnányi (1877–1960)
        
        Annie Fischer (1914-1995)
        
        Géza Anda (1921-1976)
        
        György Cziffra (1921–1994)
      - Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
        
        Lili Kraus (1905–1986)
        
        Georg Solti (1912–1997)
        
        György Sándor (1912-2005)
    - Moriz Rosenthal (1862-1946)
      - Charles Rosen (1927-2012)
    - Emil von Sauer (1862–1942)
      - Stefan Askenase (1896–1985)
        Martha Argerich (* 1941)
      - Lubka Kolessa (1902–1997)
    - Bernhard Stavenhagen (1862-1914)
    - Conrad Ansorge (1862-1930)
      - Eduard Erdmann (1896–1958)
        Paul Baumgartner (1903-1976)
        Karl Engel (1923-2006)
    - Alfred Reisenauer (1863–1907)
      - Sergej Bortkiewicz (1877–1952)
    - Eugen d'Albert (1864-1932)
      - Wilhelm Backhaus (1884–1969)
    - Frederic Lamond (1868-1948)
    - José Vianna da Motta (1868–1948)
  - Theodor Leschetizky (1830–1915)
    - Anna Nikolajewna Jessipowa (1851-1914)
      - Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
    - Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941)
    - Ossip Gabrilowitsch (1878–1936)
    - Mark Hambourg (1879-1960)
    - Artur Schnabel (1882–1951)
      - Clifford Curzon (1907-1982)
      - Eliza Hansen (1909-2001)
        
        Christoph Eschenbach (* 1940)
        
        Justus Frantz (* 1944)
      - Władysław Szpilman (1911-2000)
      - Adrian Aeschbacher (1912-2002)
      - Rudolf Firkušný (1912–1994)
      - Dinu Lipatti (1917–1950)
      - Maria Curcio (1918-2009)
        Terence Judd (1957–1979)
      - Claude Frank (1925-2014)
      - Leon Fleisher (1928-2020)
    - Gottfried Galston (1879–1950)
    - Walter Braunfels (1882–1954)
    - Elly Ney (1882-1968)
    - Ignaz Friedman (1882-1948)
    - Paul Wittgenstein (1887–1961)
    - Benno Moiseiwitsch (1890–1963)
    - Mieczysław Horszowski (1892–1993)
      - Eugene Istomin (1925-2003)
      - Murray Perahia (* 1947)

"Russian School", especially Moscow Conservatory

Franz Xaver Gebel (1787–1843)
- Alexander Villoing (1808-1878)
  - Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)
    - Teresa Carreño (1853-1917)
      - Télémaque Lambrino (1878–1930)
    - Konstantin Igumnow (1873–1948)
      - Lev Oborin (1907–1974)
        
        Vladimir Ashkenazy (* 1937)
        
        Peter Rösel (* 1945)
      - Jakow Flier (1912–1977)
        
        Viktorija Postnikowa (* 1944)
        
        Mikhail Pletnyov (* 1957)
    - Józef Hofmann (1876–1957)
      - Shura Cherkassky (1909-1995)
      - Jorge Bolet (1914–1990)
    - Sandra Droucker (1875-1944)
  - Nikolai Rubinstein (1835–1881)
    - Vasily Safonow (1852-1918)
      - Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
        Vladimir Sofronitsky (1901–1961)
      - Josef Lhévinne (1874–1944)
      - Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951)
    - Alexander Siloti (1863-1945)
      - Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
      - Alexander Goldenweiser (1875–1961)
        
        Samuil Feinberg (1890–1962)
        
        Leonid Rojsman (1916-1989)
        
        Lasar Berman (1930-2005)
        
        Dmitri Bashkirow (* 1931)
        
        Dmitri Alexejew (* 1947)
        
        Yulia Goncharenko (* 1968)
        
        Arcadi Volodos (* 1972)
        
        Nelly Akopian (* 1941)

Leopold Godowsky (1870–1938)
- Heinrich Neuhaus (1888–1964)
  - Jakow Sak (1913-1976)
  - Svyatoslav Richter (1915–1997)
  - Emil Gilels (1916–1985)
    - Valery Afanasiev (* 1947)
  - Lev Naumow (1925-2005)
    - Andrei Hoteev (* 1946)
    - Andrei Gavrilow (* 1955)
    - Konstantin Scherbakov (* 1963)
  - Stanislaw Neuhaus (1927–1980)
  - Igor Zhukov (1936-2018)
  - Elisso Wirsaladse (* 1942)
    - Boris Berezovsky (* 1969)
  - Radu Lupu (* 1945)

Felix Blumenfeld (1863–1931)
- Simon Barere (1896-1951)
- Wladimir Horowitz (1903-1989)
  - Byron Janis (* 1928)

“French School”, especially Conservatoire de Paris

Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1785–1849)
- Camille Stamaty (1811-1870)
  - Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
    - Isidore Philipp (1863-1958)
      - Nikita Magaloff (1912-1992)
        Ingrid Haebler (* 1929)
      - Monique de la Bruchollerie (1915–1972)
        Cyprien Katsaris (* 1951)

Pierre Zimmermann (1785-1853)
- Charles Valentin Alkan (1813–1888)
- Antoine François Marmontel (1816–1898)
  - Louis Diémer (1843-1919)
    - Sigismond Stojowski (1870-1946)
      - Oscar Levant (1906–1972)
    - Édouard Risler (1873-1929)
    - Alfred Cortot (1877–1962)
      - Clara Haskil (1895-1960)
      - Vlado Perlemuter (1904-2002)
        Christian Zacharias (* 1950)
      - İdil Biret (* 1941)
    - Alfredo Casella (1883-1947)
    - Yves Nat (1890-1956)
      - Pierre Sancan (1916-2008)
      - Yuri Boukoff (1923-2006)
      - Jörg Demus (1928-2019)
    - Robert Casadesus (1899–1972)
      - Claude Helffer (1922-2004)
  - Marguerite Long (1874-1966)
    - Yvonne Lefébure (1898–1986)
    - Bruno Leonardo Gelber (* 1941)

"British School"

Tobias Matthay (1858–1945)
- Myra Hess (1890-1965)

"Catalan School" (Conservatori de Barcelona, Conservatori del Liceu, Acadèmia Granados-Marshall)

Pere Tintorer (1814-1891)
- Joan Baptista Pujol (1835–1898) (Conservatori de Barcelona)
  - Carles Vidiella (1856-1915)
    - Joaquim Nin (1879-1949)
  - Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
    - Emili Vilalta (1867-1930)
  - Màrius Calado (1862–1926)
  - Joan Baptista Pellicer (1862-1930)
    - Amadeu Cuscó (1876–1942)
    - Benvingut Socias (1877-1951)
    - Josep Sabater (1882–1969)
    - Emília Miret (1892– after 1941)
  - Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
    - Frederic Longás (1897–1968)
    - Roberto Gerhard (1896–1970)
    - Paquita Madriguera (1900-1965)
    - Frank Marshall (1883-1959)
      - Mercè Roldós (1910-1989)
        Àngel Soler i Renales (1940-2017)
      - Enric Torra (1910-2003)
      - Alexandre Vilalta (1905-1984)
      - Maria Vilardell i Viñas (1922-2011)
      - Alicia de Larrocha (1923-2009)
        
        Antonio Ruiz-Pipó (1934–1997)
        
        Antoni Besses (* 1945)
        
        Eulàlia Solé (* 1946)
        
        Antonio Soria (* 1967)
        
        Daniel Blanch (* 1974)
        
        Luis Fernando Pérez (* 1977)
        
        Alba Ventura (* 1978)
      - Jaime Padrós (1926-2007)
      - Rosa Sabater (1929–1983)
      - Rosa Maria Kucharski (1929-2006)
      - Albert Giménez i Atenelle (* 1937)
        
        Ignasi Cambra (* 1989)
        
        Anna Serret i Almenara (* 1988)
  - Joaquim Malats (1872-1912)
  - Frederic Lliurat (1876–1956)
  - Ricardo Viñes (1875-1943)
    - Enriqueta Garreta (1907–1971)
    - Maria Canals (1914-2010)
      - Leonora Milà (* 1942)
- Pere Serra (1870–1934) ( Conservatori del Liceu )
- Modest Serra (1873–1962)
  - Frederic Mompou (1893-1987)
- Joan Lamote de Grignon (1872-1949)
  - Ferran Ardèvol (1887–1972)
    - José Ardévol (1911-1981)
    - Joan Guinjoan (1931-2019)
      - Josep Colom (* 1947)
        Javier Perianes (* 1978)