Piano-pedagogy lineage

The same lineage, radially

Rebecca Hardy at the centre of 18 rings

One ring per generation, counting outwards from Rebecca Hardy. The three people who taught her sit on the first ring; every ring beyond that is their teachers, and their teachers' teachers. Pick one of her three branches to pull it out of the drawing and watch the rings turn.

202 people · 18 rings · 264 teaching links · 128 portraits

The whole lineage as text

Rebecca Hardy is at the centre of a drawing of 202 people arranged in 18 concentric rings, one ring per generation of teaching. The earliest-born person on the drawing is Johannes (Hans) Bach, born in 1580 — 409 years before Rebecca Hardy, who was born in1989. The rings are joined by 264 teaching relationships.

The first ring holds the three people who taught Rebecca Hardy: Jody Graves, Marilyn Brossard and Frances Hildebrand. Each of those three branches has its own tree inside the drawing — 68 people behind Jody Graves, 50 behind Marilyn Brossard and 166 behind Frances Hildebrand. 44 people have no photograph and are drawn as an era-tinted monogram; 30 are living and drawn as an open ring. A further 3 people are on the drawing but not on the line toRebecca Hardy: Béla Bartók, Mikhail Glinka, Mily Balakirev.

  1. At the centre — Rebecca Hardy, 1 person

    1. Rebecca Hardy — 1989–. Taught by Jody Graves, Marilyn Brossard, Frances Hildebrand.

  2. Ring 1 — Her teachers, 3 people

    1. Frances Hildebrand — 1938–. Taught by Gerrit Vander Mei, Ethel Davis, Bernice Burklich, Wayland Redden.
    2. Marilyn Brossard — ?–?. Taught by Ford Hill, Mabel Muriel Cloud.
    3. Jody Graves — 1959–. Taught by Margaret Saunders Ott, Bela Nagy, Natalya Antonova, David Rostkoski, Nelita True.

  3. Ring 2 — Her teachers' teachers, 11 people

    1. Bernice Burklich — ?–?. No teacher is recorded.
    2. Wayland Redden — ?–?. No teacher is recorded.
    3. Ford Hill — ?–?. Taught by György Sebők.
    4. Mabel Muriel Cloud — ?–?. Taught by Rudolph Ganz.
    5. Nelita True — 1936–2021. Taught by Nadia Boulanger, Sascha Gorodnitzki, Leon Fleisher.
    6. Natalya Antonova — ?–?. No teacher is recorded.
    7. Margaret Saunders Ott — ?–?. Taught by Augusta Gentsch, Olga Samaroff, Moriz Rosenthal.
    8. David Rostkoski — ?–?. No teacher is recorded.
    9. Bela Nagy — ?–?. Taught by Ernst von Dohnányi.
    10. Gerrit Vander Mei — ?–1981. Taught by Ruth Slenczynska.
    11. Ethel Davis — ?–?. No teacher is recorded.

  4. Ring 3 — Teachers 3 steps back, 9 people

    1. Ruth Slenczynska — 1925–2026. Taught by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Artur Schnabel, Alfred Cortot, Josef Hofmann, Egon Petri.
    2. György Sebők — 1922–1999. Taught by Zoltán Kodály, Leó Weiner.
    3. Leon Fleisher — 1928–2020. Taught by Artur Schnabel, Maria Curcio.
    4. Rudolph Ganz — 1877–1972. Taught by Fritz Blummer.
    5. Moriz Rosenthal — 1862–1946. Taught by Rafael Joseffy.
    6. Sascha Gorodnitzki — 1904–1986. Taught by Josef Lhévinne.
    7. Olga Samaroff — 1880–1948. Taught by Ludovic Breitner.
    8. Augusta Gentsch — ?–?. Taught by Franz Liszt.
    9. Ernst von Dohnányi — 1877–1960. Taught by István Thomán, Eugen d'Albert.

  5. Ring 4 — Teachers 4 steps back, 13 people

    1. Josef Hofmann — 1876–1957. Taught by Anton Rubinstein, Moritz Moszkowski.
    2. Zoltán Kodály — 1882–1967. No teacher is recorded.
    3. Leó Weiner — 1885–1960. No teacher is recorded.
    4. Maria Curcio — 1918–2009. Taught by Nadia Boulanger, Artur Schnabel.
    5. Alfred Cortot — 1877–1962. Taught by Émile Decombes, Louis Diémer.
    6. Rafael Joseffy — 1853–1915. Taught by Franz Liszt, Carl Tausig.
    7. Fritz Blummer — ?–?. Taught by Franz Liszt.
    8. Ludovic Breitner — ?–?. Taught by Franz Liszt.
    9. Josef Lhévinne — 1874–1944. Taught by Vasily Safonov.
    10. István Thomán — 1862–1940. Taught by Franz Liszt.
    11. Eugen d'Albert — 1864–1932. Taught by Franz Liszt.
    12. Egon Petri — 1881–1962. Taught by Richard Buchmayer, Ferruccio Busoni, Teresa Carreño.
    13. Sergei Rachmaninoff — 1873–1943. Taught by Alexander Siloti, Anna Ornatskaya, Sergei Taneyev, Nikolai Zverev.

  6. Ring 5 — Teachers 5 steps back, 12 people

    1. Moritz Moszkowski — 1854–1925. Taught by Theodor Kullak.
    2. Alexander Siloti — 1863–1945. Taught by Franz Liszt, Nikolai Rubinstein, Sergei Taneyev, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Zverev.
    3. Artur Schnabel — 1882–1951. Taught by Theodor Leschetizky.
    4. Nadia Boulanger — 1887–1979. Taught by Gabriel Fauré.
    5. Émile Decombes — 1829–1912. Taught by Frédéric Chopin.
    6. Louis Diémer — 1843–1919. Taught by Antoine-François Marmontel, Ambroise Thomas.
    7. Carl Tausig — 1841–1871. Taught by Franz Liszt.
    8. Teresa Carreño — 1853–1917. Taught by Manuel Antonio Carreño, Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
    9. Vasily Safonov — 1852–1918. Taught by Theodor Leschetizky.
    10. Richard Buchmayer — 1856–1934. No teacher is recorded.
    11. Anna Ornatskaya — ?–?. Taught by Gustav Gustavovich Kross (Gustav Eugen Alexander von Kross).
    12. Ferruccio Busoni — 1866–1924. Taught by Wilhelm Kienzl, Wilhelm Mayer, Hans Schmitt, Anna Weiss.

  7. Ring 6 — Teachers 6 steps back, 13 people

    1. Anna Weiss — 1833–1909. No teacher is recorded.
    2. Wilhelm Kienzl — 1857–1941. Taught by Franz Liszt, Johann Buwa, Josef Krejčí, Wilhelm Mayer.
    3. Sergei Taneyev — 1856–1915. Taught by Nikolai Rubinstein, Eduard Langer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
    4. Gabriel Fauré — 1845–1924. Taught by Camille Saint-Saëns, Gustave Lefèvre.
    5. Frédéric Chopin — 1810–1849. Taught by Ludwika Chopin (Ludwika Jędrzejewiczowa), Wilhelm Würfel, Józef Elsner, Wojciech Żywny.
    6. Louis Moreau Gottschalk — 1829–1869. Taught by Sir Charles Hallé, Narcisse Letellier, Camille-Marie Stamaty.
    7. Ambroise Thomas — 1811–1896. Taught by Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
    8. Manuel Antonio Carreño — 1812–1874. No teacher is recorded.
    9. Antoine-François Marmontel — 1816–1898. Taught by Charles-Valentin Alkan, Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann.
    10. Theodor Leschetizky — 1830–1915. Taught by Carl Czerny.
    11. Gustav Gustavovich Kross (Gustav Eugen Alexander von Kross) — 1831–1885. Taught by Anton Rubinstein, Adolf von Henselt.
    12. Nikolai Zverev — 1833–1893. Taught by Alexandre Dubuque, Adolf von Henselt.
    13. Hans Schmitt — 1835–1907. Taught by Josef Dachs.

  8. Ring 7 — Teachers 7 steps back, 19 people

    1. Nikolai Rubinstein — 1835–1881. Taught by Theodor Kullak, Kaleria Khristoforovna Rubinstein, née Klara Löwenstein, Alexandre Villoing.
    2. Eduard Langer — 1835–1905. Taught by Ignaz Moscheles, Moritz Hauptmann, Julius Rietz.
    3. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — 1840–1893. Taught by Anton Rubinstein, Franz Becker, Rudolf Kündinger, Maria Palchikova, Nikolai Zaremba.
    4. Josef Krejčí — 1821–1881. Taught by František Chládek.
    5. Gustave Lefèvre — 1831–1910. No teacher is recorded.
    6. Camille Saint-Saëns — 1835–1921. No teacher is recorded.
    7. Ludwika Chopin (Ludwika Jędrzejewiczowa) — 1807–1855. Taught by Wojciech Żywny.
    8. Józef Elsner — 1769–1854. Taught by Johann Joseph Matthias Hanisch.
    9. Wilhelm Würfel — 1790–1832. Taught by Václav Jan Tomášek.
    10. Narcisse Letellier — ?–?. No teacher is recorded.
    11. Sir Charles Hallé — 1819–1895. Taught by George Alexander Osborne, Christian Heinrich Rinck.
    12. Charles-Valentin Alkan — 1813–1888. Taught by Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann.
    13. Camille-Marie Stamaty — 1811–1870. Taught by Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Charles-Alexandre Fessy, Felix Mendelssohn.
    14. Franz Liszt — 1811–1886. Taught by Carl Czerny, Antonio Salieri, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Adam Liszt, Anton Reicha.
    15. Adolf von Henselt — 1814–1889. Taught by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Simon Sechter, Anton Halm.
    16. Alexandre Dubuque — 1812–1898. Taught by John Field.
    17. Wilhelm Mayer — 1831–1898. Taught by Carl Franz Pitsch.
    18. Josef Dachs — 1825–1896. No teacher is recorded.
    19. Johann Buwa — 1828–1907. Taught by Josef Proksch.

  9. Ring 8 — Teachers 8 steps back, 22 people

    1. Josef Proksch — 1794–1864. No teacher is recorded.
    2. Anton Rubinstein — 1829–1894. Taught by Kaleria Khristoforovna Rubinstein, née Klara Löwenstein, Alexandre Villoing.
    3. Franz Becker — ?–?. No teacher is recorded.
    4. Maria Palchikova — ?–?. No teacher is recorded.
    5. Rudolf Kündinger — 1832–1913. Taught by Georg Wilhelm Kündinger.
    6. Nikolai Zaremba — 1821–1879. Taught by Anton Gerke, Adolf Bernhard Marx, Johann Benjamin Gross.
    7. František Chládek — ?–?. Taught by Josef Seger.
    8. Wojciech Żywny — 1757–1842. Taught by Jan Křtitel Kuchař.
    9. Johann Joseph Matthias Hanisch — 1764–1802. No teacher is recorded.
    10. Václav Jan Tomášek — 1774–1850. Taught by Pavel Josef Wolf.
    11. Moritz Hauptmann — 1792–1868. Taught by Franz Lauska (Franz Seraphin Lauska), Francesco Morlacchi, Louis Spohr.
    12. Christian Heinrich Rinck — 1770–1846. Taught by Johann Christian Kittel.
    13. Adam Liszt — 1776–1827. No teacher is recorded.
    14. George Alexander Osborne — 1806–1893. Taught by Friedrich Kalkbrenner.
    15. Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann — 1785–1853. Taught by François-Adrien Boieldieu, Luigi Cherubini.
    16. Charles-Alexandre Fessy — 1804–1856. Taught by François Benoist.
    17. Anton Reicha — 1770–1836. Taught by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Antonio Salieri, Josef Reicha.
    18. Anton Halm — 1789–1872. No teacher is recorded.
    19. Carl Franz Pitsch — 1786–1858. No teacher is recorded.
    20. Julius Rietz — 1812–1877. Taught by Carl Friedrich Zelter, Bernhard Romberg, Moritz Ganz (Eduard Moritz Ganz).
    21. Theodor Kullak — 1818–1882. Taught by Carl Czerny, Albrecht Agthe, Simon Sechter, Wilhelm Taubert.
    22. Felix Mendelssohn — 1809–1847. Taught by Ludwig Berger, Marie Bigot, Ignaz Moscheles.

  10. Ring 9 — Teachers 9 steps back, 22 people

    1. Alexandre Villoing — 1808–1878. Taught by John Field.
    2. Anton Gerke — 1812–1870. Taught by John Field, Ignaz Moscheles.
    3. Kaleria Khristoforovna Rubinstein, née Klara Löwenstein — 1807–1891. No teacher is recorded.
    4. Marie Bigot — 1786–1820. Taught by Luigi Cherubini, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber.
    5. Georg Wilhelm Kündinger — 1800–1867. No teacher is recorded.
    6. Johann Benjamin Gross — 1809–1848. Taught by Ferdinand Hansmann.
    7. Adolf Bernhard Marx — 1795–1866. Taught by Daniel Gottlob Türk, Carl Friedrich Zelter.
    8. Jan Křtitel Kuchař — 1751–1829. Taught by Josef Seger.
    9. Pavel Josef Wolf — ?–?. No teacher is recorded.
    10. Louis Spohr — 1784–1859. No teacher is recorded.
    11. Franz Lauska (Franz Seraphin Lauska) — 1764–1825. No teacher is recorded.
    12. Francesco Morlacchi — 1784–1841. No teacher is recorded.
    13. François-Adrien Boieldieu — 1775–1834. Taught by Charles Broche.
    14. Josef Reicha — 1752–1795. Taught by Franz Joseph Werner.
    15. Friedrich Kalkbrenner — 1785–1849. Taught by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Joseph Haydn, Louis Adam.
    16. Albrecht Agthe — 1790–1873. Taught by Michael Gotthard Fischer.
    17. François Benoist — 1794–1878. No teacher is recorded.
    18. Simon Sechter — 1788–1867. Taught by Johann Maxandt.
    19. Carl Czerny — 1791–1857. Taught by Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonio Salieri, Muzio Clementi, Wenzel Czerny, Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
    20. Bernhard Romberg — 1767–1841. No teacher is recorded.
    21. Moritz Ganz (Eduard Moritz Ganz) — 1806–1869. No teacher is recorded.
    22. Wilhelm Taubert — 1811–1891. Taught by Ludwig Berger.

  11. Ring 10 — Teachers 10 steps back, 16 people

    1. Ignaz Moscheles — 1794–1870. Taught by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Antonio Salieri, Bedřich Diviš Weber.
    2. Daniel-François-Esprit Auber — 1782–1871. Taught by Luigi Cherubini, Ignaz Ladurner (Ignaz Anton Ladurner), Jean-Blaise Martin.
    3. Ferdinand Hansmann — 1764–1843. No teacher is recorded.
    4. Daniel Gottlob Türk — 1750–1813. No teacher is recorded.
    5. Charles Broche — 1752–1803. Taught by Giovanni Battista Martini.
    6. Josef Seger — 1716–1782. Taught by Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Felix Benda.
    7. Carl Friedrich Zelter — 1758–1832. No teacher is recorded.
    8. Franz Joseph Werner — ?–?. No teacher is recorded.
    9. Michael Gotthard Fischer — 1773–1829. Taught by Johann Christian Kittel.
    10. Louis Adam — 1758–1848. Taught by Jean-Frédéric Edelmann.
    11. Johann Maxandt — ?–?. No teacher is recorded.
    12. Ludwig van Beethoven — 1770–1827. Taught by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Johann van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Tobias Friedrich Pfeiffer, Antonio Salieri.
    13. Johann Nepomuk Hummel — 1778–1837. Taught by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Joseph Haydn, Antonio Salieri, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Muzio Clementi.
    14. Wenzel Czerny — 1752–1832. No teacher is recorded.
    15. Ludwig Berger — 1777–1839. Taught by Muzio Clementi.
    16. John Field — 1782–1837. Taught by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Muzio Clementi, Tommaso Giordani.

  12. Ring 11 — Teachers 11 steps back, 17 people

    1. Tommaso Giordani — 1730–1806. No teacher is recorded.
    2. Ignaz Ladurner (Ignaz Anton Ladurner) — 1766–1839. No teacher is recorded.
    3. Jean-Blaise Martin — 1768–1837. No teacher is recorded.
    4. Luigi Cherubini — 1760–1842. Taught by Giuseppe Sarti.
    5. Bedřich Diviš Weber — 1766–1842. Taught by Georg Joseph Vogler.
    6. Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský — 1684–1742. No teacher is recorded.
    7. Felix Benda — 1708–1768. No teacher is recorded.
    8. Johann Christian Kittel — 1732–1809. Taught by Johann Sebastian Bach.
    9. Johann van Beethoven — 1739–1792. Taught by Ludwig van Beethoven the Elder (Ludwig van Beethoven d. Ä., 1712–1773).
    10. Joseph Haydn — 1732–1809. Taught by Nicola Porpora, Johann Matthias Frankh, Johann Georg Reutter (the younger).
    11. Tobias Friedrich Pfeiffer — ?–?. No teacher is recorded.
    12. Jean-Frédéric Edelmann — 1749–1794. No teacher is recorded.
    13. Johann Georg Albrechtsberger — 1736–1809. Taught by Joseph Weiss.
    14. Christian Gottlob Neefe — 1748–1798. Taught by Johann Adam Hiller.
    15. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — 1756–1791. Taught by Leopold Mozart.
    16. Antonio Salieri — 1750–1825. Taught by Florian Leopold Gassmann, Giovanni Battista Pescetti, Francesco Salieri, Giuseppe Simoni.
    17. Muzio Clementi — 1752–1832. Taught by Gaetano Carpani, Giuseppe Santarelli.

  13. Ring 12 — Teachers 12 steps back, 16 people

    1. Florian Leopold Gassmann — 1729–1774. Taught by Giovanni Battista Martini.
    2. Giuseppe Simoni — ?–?. Taught by Giovanni Battista Martini.
    3. Giuseppe Santarelli — 1710–1790. Taught by Giovanni Battista Martini.
    4. Giuseppe Sarti — 1729–1802. Taught by Giovanni Battista Martini.
    5. Georg Joseph Vogler — 1749–1814. Taught by Giovanni Battista Martini, Francesco Antonio Vallotti.
    6. Johann Sebastian Bach — 1685–1750. Taught by Johann Ambrosius Bach, Johann Christoph Bach (1645–1693), Johann Christoph Bach (1671–1721).
    7. Johann Matthias Frankh — ?–?. No teacher is recorded.
    8. Johann Georg Reutter (the younger) — 1708–1772. Taught by Georg Reutter (the elder), Antonio Caldara.
    9. Ludwig van Beethoven the Elder (Ludwig van Beethoven d. Ä., 1712–1773) — 1712–1773. No teacher is recorded.
    10. Nicola Porpora — 1686–1768. Taught by Gaetano Greco.
    11. Joseph Weiss — ?–?. No teacher is recorded.
    12. Johann Adam Hiller — 1728–1804. Taught by Gottfried August Homilius.
    13. Leopold Mozart — 1719–1787. No teacher is recorded.
    14. Giovanni Battista Pescetti — 1704–1766. Taught by Antonio Lotti.
    15. Francesco Salieri — 1741–1826. Taught by Giuseppe Tartini.
    16. Gaetano Carpani — 1692–1785. No teacher is recorded.

  14. Ring 13 — Teachers 13 steps back, 11 people

    1. Giovanni Battista Martini — 1706–1784. Taught by Angelo Predieri.
    2. Johann Christoph Bach (1671–1721) — 1671–1721. Taught by Johann Pachelbel.
    3. Francesco Antonio Vallotti — 1697–1780. Taught by Francesco Antonio Calegari.
    4. Johann Ambrosius Bach — 1645–1695. Taught by Christoph Bach.
    5. Johann Christoph Bach (1645–1693) — 1645–1693. No teacher is recorded.
    6. Georg Reutter (the elder) — 1656–1738. No teacher is recorded.
    7. Antonio Caldara — 1670–1736. No teacher is recorded.
    8. Gaetano Greco — 1657–1728. Taught by Giovanni Salvatore, Gennaro Ursino.
    9. Antonio Lotti — 1667–1740. No teacher is recorded.
    10. Gottfried August Homilius — 1714–1785. No teacher is recorded.
    11. Giuseppe Tartini — 1692–1770. No teacher is recorded.

  15. Ring 14 — Teachers 14 steps back, 6 people

    1. Johann Pachelbel — 1653–1706. Taught by Heinrich Schwemmer, Kaspar Prentz.
    2. Francesco Antonio Calegari — 1656–1742. No teacher is recorded.
    3. Christoph Bach — 1613–1661. Taught by Johannes (Hans) Bach.
    4. Giovanni Salvatore — 1611–1688. No teacher is recorded.
    5. Gennaro Ursino — 1650–1715. No teacher is recorded.
    6. Angelo Predieri — 1655–1731. Taught by Camillo Cevenini, Agostino Filipucci.

  16. Ring 15 — Teachers 15 steps back, 5 people

    1. Kaspar Prentz — ?–?. Taught by Johann Caspar Kerll.
    2. Johannes (Hans) Bach — 1580–1626. No teacher is recorded.
    3. Heinrich Schwemmer — 1621–1696. Taught by Johann Erasmus Kindermann.
    4. Camillo Cevenini — 1607–1676. No teacher is recorded.
    5. Agostino Filipucci — 1621–1679. No teacher is recorded.

  17. Ring 16 — Teachers 16 steps back, 2 people

    1. Johann Erasmus Kindermann — 1616–1655. Taught by Johann Staden.
    2. Johann Caspar Kerll — 1627–1693. No teacher is recorded.

  18. Ring 17 — Teachers 17 steps back, 1 person

    1. Johann Staden — 1581–1634. No teacher is recorded.

Outside the rings

The lineage as an orbit

Rebecca Hardy at the centre · 18 rings ·202 people · 264 teaching links ·128 portraits

⌘/Ctrl + scroll or + / − to zoom · drag to pan ·Tab in and use the arrow keys

The drawing is one ring per generation, with Rebecca Hardy at the centre and the three people who taught her on the first ring. Tab into the drawing to reach a person, then use the left and right arrows to move around the same ring, the up and down arrows to move outwards and inwards, Home for the centre and End for the outermost ring, Enter to open the person's page. F focuses the last branch you chose, Escape clears the focus, plus, minus and zero zoom.

  1. Ring 0 — Rebecca Hardy, 1 person, radius 0 px, 0.0 px of arc per person.
  2. Ring 1 — Her teachers, 3 people, radius 94 px, 196.9 px of arc per person.
  3. Ring 2 — Her teachers' teachers, 11 people, radius 188 px, 107.4 px of arc per person.
  4. Ring 3 — Teachers 3 steps back, 9 people, radius 282 px, 196.9 px of arc per person.
  5. Ring 4 — Teachers 4 steps back, 13 people, radius 376 px, 181.7 px of arc per person.
  6. Ring 5 — Teachers 5 steps back, 12 people, radius 470 px, 246.1 px of arc per person.
  7. Ring 6 — Teachers 6 steps back, 13 people, radius 564 px, 272.6 px of arc per person.
  8. Ring 7 — Teachers 7 steps back, 19 people, radius 658 px, 217.6 px of arc per person.
  9. Ring 8 — Teachers 8 steps back, 22 people, radius 752 px, 214.8 px of arc per person.
  10. Ring 9 — Teachers 9 steps back, 22 people, radius 846 px, 241.6 px of arc per person.
  11. Ring 10 — Teachers 10 steps back, 16 people, radius 940 px, 369.1 px of arc per person.
  12. Ring 11 — Teachers 11 steps back, 17 people, radius 1034 px, 382.2 px of arc per person.
  13. Ring 12 — Teachers 12 steps back, 16 people, radius 1128 px, 443.0 px of arc per person.
  14. Ring 13 — Teachers 13 steps back, 11 people, radius 1222 px, 698.0 px of arc per person.
  15. Ring 14 — Teachers 14 steps back, 6 people, radius 1316 px, 1378.1 px of arc per person.
  16. Ring 15 — Teachers 15 steps back, 5 people, radius 1410 px, 1771.9 px of arc per person.
  17. Ring 16 — Teachers 16 steps back, 2 people, radius 1504 px, 4725.0 px of arc per person.
  18. Ring 17 — Teachers 17 steps back, 1 person, radius 1598 px, 10040.5 px of arc per person.
  19. Outside the rings: 3 people not on the line to Rebecca Hardy — Béla Bartók, Mikhail Glinka, Mily Balakirev.
Rings and branch sizes
  1. 0Rebecca Hardy1 person
  2. 1Her teachers3 people
  3. 2Her teachers' teachers11 people
  4. 3Teachers 3 steps back9 people
  5. 4Teachers 4 steps back13 people
  6. 5Teachers 5 steps back12 people
  7. 6Teachers 6 steps back13 people
  8. 7Teachers 7 steps back19 people
  9. 8Teachers 8 steps back22 people
  10. 9Teachers 9 steps back22 people
  11. 10Teachers 10 steps back16 people
  12. 11Teachers 11 steps back17 people
  13. 12Teachers 12 steps back16 people
  14. 13Teachers 13 steps back11 people
  15. 14Teachers 14 steps back6 people
  16. 15Teachers 15 steps back5 people
  17. 16Teachers 16 steps back2 people
  18. 17Teachers 17 steps back1 person

The widest ring is ring 8 with 22 people. The three branches that can be pulled out of the drawing are Jody Graves (68 people), Marilyn Brossard (50) and Frances Hildebrand (166).

Portrait credits

128 of the 202 people have a photograph, taken from Wikimedia Commons via Wikidata. 7 require attribution under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY or CC BY-SA), 2 are CC0, and the rest are public domain or carry no known restrictions; every portrait is credited below with its author and licence. 3 of them have no author recorded by the source and are marked as unattributed. The remaining 74 people are drawn as a monogram or an open ring.

All 128 credits
  • Adam Liszt — Anonymous Unknown author · Public domain · Q350325 · Commons
  • Adolf Bernhard Marx — Carl Mittag · Public domain · Q360945 · Commons
  • Adolf von Henselt — digitalgallery.nypl.org (digital gallery of the New York Public Library ) · Public domain · Q362139 · Commons
  • Alexander Siloti — Photographer not credited. · Public domain · Q366536 · Commons
  • Alexandre Dubuque — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q968109 · Commons
  • Alexandre Villoing — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q2642338 · Commons
  • Alfred Cortot — Unknown (Bain News Service, publisher) · Public domain · Q116057 · Commons
  • Ambroise Thomas — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q297717 · Commons
  • Antoine-François Marmontel — etching by unnamed artist · Public domain · Q586181 · Commons
  • Anton Reicha — Éléonore Anne de Steuben · Public domain · Q311387 · Commons
  • Anton Rubinstein — J Ganz, Brussels · Public domain · Q87567 · Commons
  • Antonio Caldara — Unidentified painter · Public domain · Q311571 · Commons
  • Antonio Salieri — Joseph Willibrord Mähler · Public domain · Q51088 · Commons
  • Artur Schnabel — Bain News Service, publisher · Public domain · Q213688 · Commons
  • Bedřich Diviš Weber — Josef Eduard Teltscher · Public domain · Q79023 · Commons
  • Béla Bartók — RIA Novosti · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Q83326 · Commons
  • Bernhard Romberg — After Franz Krüger · Public domain · Q213914 · Commons
  • Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q890972 · Commons
  • Camille Saint-Saëns — Agence de presse Meurisse · Public domain · Q150445 · Commons
  • Camille-Marie Stamaty — Alphonse-Léon Noël · Public domain · Q1029284 · Commons
  • Carl Czerny — Blasius Höfel · Public domain · Q215333 · Commons
  • Carl Franz Pitsch — Josef Zumsande (1806-1865) · Public domain · Q723286 · Commons
  • Carl Friedrich Zelter — Carl Joseph Begas · Public domain · Q58857 · Commons
  • Carl Tausig — The Project Gutenberg EBook of Richard Wagner, by John F. Runciman [1] · Public domain · Q636941 · Commons
  • Charles Broche — Paul Dujardin (1843–1913) Eugène Charpentier · Public domain · Q2958620 · Commons
  • Charles-Valentin Alkan — unidentified photographer, Paris, France · Public domain · Q217068 · Commons
  • Christian Gottlob Neefe — Unidentified painter · Public domain · Q213556 · Commons
  • Christian Heinrich Rinck — L. Becker · Public domain · Q559451 · Commons
  • Daniel Gottlob Türk — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q216090 · Commons
  • Daniel-François-Esprit Auber — Unknown Unknown Photograf · Public domain · Q157672 · Commons
  • Eduard Langer — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q30149317 · Commons
  • Egon Petri — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q728822 · Commons
  • Émile Decombes — Nadar · Public domain · Q3274943 · Commons
  • Ernst von Dohnányi — Bain News Service, publisher · Public domain · Q78532 · Commons
  • Eugen d'Albert — Unknown author Unknown author · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Q57178 · Commons
  • Felix Mendelssohn — Eduard Magnus · Public domain · Q46096 · Commons
  • Ferruccio Busoni — Varischi & Artico · Public domain · Q219551 · Commons
  • Florian Leopold Gassmann — Johann Balzer / After Anton Hickel · Public domain · Q700816 · Commons
  • Francesco Antonio Vallotti — Heinrich Eduard Winter · Public domain · Q1395790 · Commons
  • Francesco Morlacchi — drawing 1829 by Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer, original uploader was Grifomaniacs at it.wikipedia · Public domain · Q571408 · Commons
  • François Benoist — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q1450915 · Commons
  • François-Adrien Boieldieu — Henri-François Riesener · Public domain · Q109875 · Commons
  • Franz Liszt — Franz Hanfstaengl · Public domain · Q41309 · Commons
  • Frédéric Chopin — Maria Wodzińska · Public domain · Q1268 · Commons
  • Friedrich Kalkbrenner — Henri Grevedon · Public domain · Q170270 · Commons
  • Gabriel Fauré — Eugène Pirou · Public domain · Q104919 · Commons
  • Georg Joseph Vogler — Joseph Hauber (1766–1834) · Public domain · Q708557 · Commons
  • George Alexander Osborne — Devéria, Achille · Public domain · Q5543056 · Commons
  • Giovanni Battista Martini — Angelo Crescimbeni (1734-1781) · Public domain · Q283651 · Commons
  • Giuseppe Santarelli — Andrea Rossi after Pompeo Batoni · Public domain · Q5565524 · Commons
  • Giuseppe Sarti — Salvatore Tonci · Public domain · Q455199 · Commons
  • Giuseppe Tartini — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q108555 · Commons
  • Gottfried August Homilius — Christian Ludwig Seehas · Public domain · Q451484 · Commons
  • Gustav Gustavovich Kross (Gustav Eugen Alexander von Kross) — Э. Беренс · Public domain · Q4241732 · Commons
  • Gustave Lefèvre — Berthaud · Public domain · Q446814 · Commons
  • György Sebők — Dushi68 · Public domain · Q2027005 · Commons
  • Hans Schmitt — Unknown Unknown · Public domain · Q16720697 · Commons
  • Ignaz Moscheles — Felix Moscheles (Life time: 8 February 1833 - 22 December 1917) · Public domain · Q159551 · Commons
  • István Thomán — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q375024 · Commons
  • Jean-Blaise Martin — C. Motte (lithographie) d'après un dessin de Rulmann · Public domain · Q1439556 · Commons
  • Jody Graves — Photograph supplied by Jody Graves · Supplied by the subject
  • Johann Adam Hiller — Johann Paul Singer · Public domain · Q432299 · Commons
  • Johann Ambrosius Bach — Attributed to Johann David Herlicius · Public domain · Q309470 · Commons
  • Johann Caspar Kerll — Heinrich Eduard Winter · Public domain · Q545409 · Commons
  • Johann Christian Kittel — Konrad Westermayr · Public domain · Q445696 · Commons
  • Johann Christoph Bach (1645–1693) — Attributed to Johann David Herlicius · Public domain · Q48345 · Commons
  • Johann Erasmus Kindermann — Rettinghaus · CC BY 4.0 · Q466635 · Commons
  • Johann Georg Albrechtsberger — Leopold Kupelwieser · Public domain · Q314164 · Commons
  • Johann Georg Reutter (the younger) — After A. Ecker · Public domain · Q691733 · Commons
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel — After Pierre-Roch Vigneron · Public domain · Q151953 · Commons
  • Johann Sebastian Bach — Elias Gottlob Haussmann · Public domain · Q1339 · Commons
  • Johann Staden — Johann Pfann · CC BY 4.0 · Q873509 · Commons
  • Johann van Beethoven — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q2153541 · Commons
  • John Field — Anton Wachsmann · Public domain · Q209684 · Commons
  • Josef Dachs — Josef Löwy · CC0 · Q679496 · Commons
  • Josef Hofmann — Unknown (Bain News Service, publisher) · Public domain · Q505921 · Commons
  • Josef Lhévinne — Bain News Service, publisher · Public domain · Q951486 · Commons
  • Josef Proksch — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q959789 · Commons
  • Joseph Haydn — Thomas Hardy · Public domain · Q7349 · Commons
  • Józef Elsner — Maksymilian Fajans · Public domain · Q471647 · Commons
  • Julius Rietz — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q63745 · Commons
  • Leó Weiner — Unattributed · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Q535323 · Commons
  • Leon Fleisher — Seattle Symphony Orchestra, where he was one of their featured artists for the season; photographer: Bender · Public domain · Q1356487 · Commons
  • Leopold Mozart — Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni · Public domain · Q156280 · Commons
  • Louis Adam — after Marie-Alexandre Alophe · Public domain · Q1349517 · Commons
  • Louis Diémer — User:Rettinghaus · CC0 · Q1349196 · Commons
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk — Mathew Benjamin Brady · Public domain · Q550701 · Commons
  • Louis Spohr — Bergen Public Library Norway from Bergen, Norway · No restrictions · Q57226 · Commons
  • Ludwig Berger — Gustav Ferdinand Metz (drawing), Carl Wildt (engraving) · Public domain · Q452414 · Commons
  • Ludwig van Beethoven — Joseph Karl Stieler · Public domain · Q255 · Commons
  • Ludwig van Beethoven the Elder (Ludwig van Beethoven d. Ä., 1712–1773) — various · Public domain · Q12368917 · Commons
  • Ludwika Chopin (Ludwika Jędrzejewiczowa) — Ambroży Mieroszewski · Public domain · Q6699463 · Commons
  • Luigi Cherubini — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · Public domain · Q20721 · Commons
  • Manuel Antonio Carreño — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q6752388 · Commons
  • Maria Curcio — unknown · Public domain · Q452334 · Commons
  • Marie Bigot — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q460587 · Commons
  • Mikhail Glinka — Unattributed · Public domain · Q181885 · Commons
  • Mily Balakirev — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q185040 · Commons
  • Moritz Hauptmann — Bary · Public domain · Q60908 · Commons
  • Moritz Moszkowski — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q322427 · Commons
  • Moriz Rosenthal — Bain News Service, publisher · Public domain · Q213772 · Commons
  • Muzio Clementi — Aleksander Orłowski · Public domain · Q193673 · Commons
  • Nadia Boulanger — Edmond Joaillier (1886-1939) · Public domain · Q140619 · Commons
  • Nicola Porpora — Unidentified painter · Public domain · Q312788 · Commons
  • Nikolai Rubinstein — Luckardt F (Vienne) · Public domain · Q311791 · Commons
  • Nikolai Zaremba — Taks · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Q2717812 · Commons
  • Nikolai Zverev — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q553959 · Commons
  • Olga Samaroff — Bain News Service, publisher · Public domain · Q3350455 · Commons
  • Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann — Antoine-Jean Gros · Public domain · Q1348126 · Commons
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Nikolai Kuznetsov · Public domain · Q7315 · Commons
  • Rafael Joseffy — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q1297823 · Commons
  • Rudolf Kündinger — Felix Schubert, Atelier für Photographie, Bad Wildungen · Public domain · Q4399729 · Commons
  • Rudolph Ganz — Bain News Service, publisher · Public domain · Q670140 · Commons
  • Ruth Slenczynska — James J. Kriegsmann · Public domain · Q4423324 · Commons
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff — Kubey-Rembrandt Studios · Public domain · Q131861 · Commons
  • Sergei Taneyev — Unattributed · Public domain · Q335006 · Commons
  • Simon Sechter — Josef Kriehuber · Public domain · Q582713 · Commons
  • Sir Charles Hallé — Herbert Rose Barraud · Public domain · Q65648 · Commons
  • Teresa Carreño — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q241494 · Commons
  • Theodor Kullak — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q706082 · Commons
  • Theodor Leschetizky — Ferdinand Schmutzer · Public domain · Q362340 · Commons
  • Václav Jan Tomášek — Antonín Machek · Public domain · Q918645 · Commons
  • Vasily Safonov — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Q947291 · Commons
  • Wilhelm Kienzl — Friedrich Bruckmann · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Q637353 · Commons
  • Wilhelm Taubert — Eduard Magnus · Public domain · Q69912 · Commons
  • Wojciech Żywny — Ambroży Mieroszewski · Public domain · Q443519 · Commons
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Barbara Krafft · Public domain · Q254 · Commons
  • Zoltán Kodály — Pál M. Vajda · Public domain · Q153008 · Commons