My mother was an opera singer. She also studied piano. She studied piano under Clara Husserl, a piano teacher from Newark, NJ. She was from the Beethoven lineage. Beethoven taught Czerny, who then taught Liszt, Liszt taught Leschetizky, and Leschetizky taught Clara Husserl.

Her students included a number of well known concert pianists. Including Liberace.

It was a different era. They all used to go for picnic lunches in the park together.

Another student, Seymour Bernstein, became a master teacher of other concert pianists.

In 2014, the actor Ethan Hawke did a documentary on him:

Introducing Seymour: