User:JackofOz/Related classical musicians

This is an incomplete list of Classical musicians who were related by blood or marriage.


 * Charles-Valentin Alkan
 * He was reputed to be the father of Élie-Miriam Delaborde. He was the brother of Henri Alkan.


 * William Alwyn
 * His wife was the composer Doreen Carwithen


 * Thomas Arne
 * Husband of Cecilia Young and father of Michael Arne


 * Bach family
 * All the members of the Bach family were related (many cross-links). See also Category:Bach family


 * Steuart Bedford
 * He is the brother of composer David Bedford and a grandson of Liza Lehmann


 * Elmer Bernstein
 * Father of Peter Bernstein (composer)


 * Ole Bull
 * Bull's brother married Edvard Grieg's mother's sister


 * Hans von Bülow
 * He was Franz Liszt's son-in-law, until his wife Cosima left him and married Richard Wagner


 * Cécile Chaminade
 * Her sister was the second wife of Moritz Moszkowski


 * Boris Christoff
 * Christoff was Tito Gobbi's brother-in-law


 * Couperin family
 * See Couperin family and Category:Couperin family


 * Sir Clifford Curzon
 * Curzon was Albert Ketèlbey's nephew.


 * Frederick Delius
 * Delius's wife Jelka Rosen was Ignaz Moscheles's granddaughter


 * Alphonse Duvernoy
 * Married Marianne, the daughter of Pauline Viardot. Marianne had earlier been engaged to Gabriel Fauré.


 * Ferrabosco family


 * Gerald Finzi
 * Father of Christopher Finzi


 * Anatole Fistoulari
 * He married Gustav Mahler's daughter after the composer's death


 * Orlando Gibbons
 * Father of Christopher Gibbons


 * Tito Gobbi
 * Gobbi was Boris Christoff's brother-in-law


 * Leopold Godowsky
 * His son married George Gershwin's sister


 * Alexander Goedicke
 * Goedicke was the son of the minor composer and pianist Fyodor Goedicke, and the cousin of the much more famous composer asnd pianist Nikolai Medtner


 * Goossens
 * See Category:Goossens family


 * Glenn Gould
 * Gould's maternal grandfather was Edvard Grieg's cousin.


 * Edvard Grieg
 * Grieg's aunt (mother's sister) married Ole Bull.
 * Grieg's niece married Johan Halvorsen.
 * Grieg's cousin was the maternal grandfather of Glenn Gould.


 * Johan Halvorsen
 * Halvorsen married Edvard Grieg's niece


 * Johann Hartmann
 * 2 sons


 * Haydn
 * Joseph Haydn and Michael Haydn were brothers.


 * Hellmesberger
 * See Category:Hellmesberger family


 * Gustav Holst
 * Father of Imogen Holst


 * Vladimir Horowitz
 * Horowitz married Arturo Toscanini's daughter


 * Albert Ketèlbey
 * He was Sir Clifford Curzon's uncle


 * James Kwast
 * His first wife was Antonie ("Tony"), the daughter of Ferdinand Hiller. Their daughter Mimi Kwast married his pupil, the composer Hans Pfitzner.


 * Franz Liszt
 * Liszt was Hans von Bülow's sometime father-in-law, Richard Wagner's father-in-law and Siegfried Wagner's grandfather


 * Lloyd Webber
 * See article for connections. Andrew Lloyd Webber married Sarah Brightman


 * Dame Elizabeth Maconchy
 * Her daughter is Nicola LeFanu, whose husband is David Lumsdaine


 * Gustav Mahler
 * After his death, his daughter married Anatole Fistoulari


 * Nikolai Medtner
 * Medtner was Alexander Goedicke's cousin. (Goedicke's father, Medtner's uncle and first teacher, was the minor composer and pianist Fyodor Goedicke.)


 * Felix Mendelssohn
 * Mendelssohn was brother of Fanny Mendelssohn, and distantly related to Giacomo Meyerbeer. See Siegfried Alkan and Mendelssohn family.


 * Giacomo Meyerbeer
 * Meyerbeer was distantly related to Felix Mendelssohn


 * Emil Młynarski
 * Młynarski was the father-in-law, in turn, of Mieczysław Munz and Arthur Rubinstein


 * Ernest John Moeran
 * His wife was the cellist Peers Coetmore


 * Ignaz Moscheles
 * His granddaughter Jelka Rosen was the wife of Frederick Delius


 * Moritz Moszkowski
 * Moszkowski's second wife was the sister of Cécile Chaminade


 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * Mozart was the son of Leopold Mozart, and married Carl Maria von Weber's cousin Constanze. See Mozart family.


 * Mieczysław Munz
 * Munz was the son-in-law of Emil Młynarski until his wife divorced him and married Arthur Rubinstein


 * Heinrich Neuhaus
 * Stanislav Neuhaus, Heinrich's son by his first wife Zinaida (who married Pasternak in 1931), was also a noted pianist; Stanislav Bunin is his grandson.


 * Newman dynasty


 * Carl Nielsen
 * He was the sometime father-in-law of the Hungarian violinist Emil Telmányi.


 * Dene Olding
 * Son of Max Olding and Pamela Page


 * Hieronymus Praetorius
 * Father of Jacob Praetorius


 * Henry Purcell
 * Grandsons


 * Sergei Rachmaninoff
 * Cousin of Alexander Siloti


 * Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
 * He was Maximilian Steinberg's father-in-law


 * Arthur Rubinstein
 * Rubinstein was Emil Młynarski's son-in-law. His wife had previously been married to Mieczysław Munz.


 * Harald Saeverud
 * Father of Ketil Hvoslef


 * Arnold Schoenberg
 * His first wife was Mathilde Zemlinsky, siser of Alexander von Zemlinsky


 * Alexander Scriabin
 * After his death, his daughter married Vladimir Sofronitsky


 * Dmitri Shostakovich
 * Father of Maxim Shostakovich


 * Jean Sibelius
 * He married Aino, the sister of the composer Armas Järnefelt, whose brother Arvid wrote Kuolema. The Sibeliuses' daughter Margareta married the conductor Jussi Jalas, and daughter Heidi married Jalas's brother Aulis Blomstedt


 * Dmitry Sitkovetsky
 * Son of Julian Sitkovetsky and Bella Davidovich


 * Vladimir Sofronitsky
 * He became Alexander Scriabin's son-in-law (after Scriabin's death).


 * Maximilian Steinberg
 * Steinberg was Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's son-in-law


 * Karl-Heinz Stockhausen
 * Father of Markus Stockhausen


 * Strauss family
 * See Category:Strauss family


 * Tcherepnin family
 * See Category:Tcherepnin family


 * Arturo Toscanini
 * Toscanini was Vladimir Horowitz's father-in-law.


 * Richard Wagner
 * Wagner was Siegfried Wagner's father and Franz Liszt's son-in-law. See Wagner family tree.


 * Siegfried Wagner
 * He was the son of Richard Wagner and the grandson of Franz Liszt


 * Carl Maria von Weber
 * His cousin married Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.


 * Henryk Wieniawski
 * His daughter was the composer Poldowski.


 * Efrem Zimbalist
 * Married Alma Gluck

Marriages

 * Roberto Alagna = Angela Gheorghiu
 * William Alwyn = Doreen Carwithen
 * Martha Argerich = Stephen Kovacevich and Charles Dutoit
 * Daniel Barenboim = Jacqueline du Pré
 * Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau = Julia Varady
 * Marilyn Horne = Henry Lewis
 * Ernest John Moeran = Peers Coetmore
 * Mstislav Rostropovich = Galina Vishnevskaya
 * Robert Schumann = Clara Wieck
 * Joan Sutherland = Richard Bonynge
 * Scriabin had children by Tatyana de Schloezer, the niece of Paul de Schlozer, but I'm not sure if they ever married
 * Max Olding and Pamela Page
 * Willi and Louis Thern
 * Rose and Ottilie Sutro
 * Nikolay and Medea Figner
 * André Previn = Anne-Sophie Mutter

Viardot/Garcia Diaghilev/Tchaikovsky Many piano duos Teresa Carreno Sophie Menter Eugene d'Albert Debussy/Faure/Dolly Verdi/Stolz Rossini/ ??