Pupil descendants of the great composers

[Jaysne]

In one of the books containing the letters of Mozart, he carps about how he detests when a student of his doesn't show up to lessons, or when he travels to the student's house and the student isn't there. Things we teachers can all relate to!

But it made wonder about the students of the great composers and musicians of yesteryear. Wouldn't it make sense that those students in turn had their own students, and then that bunch had students, and so on?

I wonder if anyone around today can safely say that their teacher's lineage dates back to any of the great composers or musicians?

[some guy]

[I]t made [me] wonder about the students of the great composers and musicians of yesteryear.... I wonder if anyone around today can safely say that their teacher's lineage dates back to any of the great composers or musicians?

And I wonder what the great composers and musicians of today are thinking about "yesteryear" and "dates back to"!!

Be fair, there are great composers alive right now, many of them teachers or former teachers as well.

A good example of one of those is Francis Dhomont, who taught for many years in Montréal before moving back to Avignon. You can find many of his students' work in a piece of his using bits of their music, a piece called, appropriately enough, Frankenstein Symphony.

A lot of people studied with Pierre Schaeffer as well, a lot of greats. Same for Larry Austin.

I'm just sayin'....

[Muza]

That sounds interesting, but kind of hard to trace