In the Blood? Used with permission of: © Andrew Cole Today’s presentation: • To what extent are eminent composers from professional musician families? • How do composers compare to other professions in following parent careers? The investigation: • Studied parentage and family ties of 100 eminent composers: years 1500 - 2000 • Equivalent family research of eminent figures from 5 other professions: • Doctors • Lawyers • Clergy • Engineers • Novelists The 100 eminent composers: Pre 1700 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century Giovanni Palestrina Giovanni Sammartini Hector Berlioz Francis Poulenc Gabriel Faure Claudio Monteverdi William Boyce Felix Mendelssohn F. Aaron Copland Leos Janacek Francesca Caccini, Christoph Gluck Robert Schumann William Walton Edward Elgar Girolamo Frescobaldi Niccolò Piccinni Frederick Chopin Michael Kemp Tippett Giacomo Puccini Heinrich Schütz Franz Joseph Haydn Franz Liszt Dmitri Shostakovich Gustav Mahler Jean-Baptiste Lully Antonio Salieri Richard Wagner Elliott Carter Claude Debussy Dieterich Buxtehude Muzio Clementi Guiseppe Verdi Olivier Messiaen Frederick Delius Arcangelo Corelli Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Jakob Offenbach John Cage Richard Strauss Henry Purcell Luigi Cherubini Clara Schumann Benjamin Britten Paul Dukas François Couperin Stephen Storace Anton Bruckner Witold Lutosławski Jean Sibelius Giovanni Bononcini Ludwig van Beethoven Bedřich Smetana Leonard Bernstein Eric Satie Antonio Caldara Niccolò Pagannini Johann Strauss II Malcolm Arnold Vaughan Williams Antonio Vivaldi Louis Spohr Alexander Borodin Pierre Boulez Sergei Rachmaninoff Georg Telemann Carl Maria von Weber Johann Brahms John Williams Gustav Holst Jean-Philippe Rameau Carl Czerny Cammille Saint-Saens Peter Maxwell Davies Arnold Schoenberg Johann Sebastian Bach Giacomo Meyerbee Georges Bizet Alfred Schnittke Charles Ives Giuseppe Scarlatti Gioachino Rossini Modeste Mussorgsky Steve Reich Maurice Ravel George Handel Gaetano Donizetti Pyotr Tchaikovsky Philip Glass Béla Bartók Maurice Greene Franz Schubert Antonin Dvorak Hans Zimmer Igor Stravinsky Johann Hasse Edvard Grieg Sergei Prokofiev Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov George Gershwin Research created equivalent lists of eminent figures in each of the other professions The 100 eminent composers Pre 1700 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century Giovanni Palestrina Giovanni Sammartini Hector Berlioz Francis Poulenc Gabriel Faure Claudio Monteverdi William Boyce Felix Mendelssohn F. Aaron Copland Leos Janacek Francesca Caccini, Christoph Gluck Robert Schumann William Walton Edward Elgar Girolamo Frescobaldi Niccolò Piccinni Frederick Chopin Michael Kemp Tippett Giacomo Puccini Heinrich Schütz Franz Joseph Haydn Franz Liszt Dmitri Shostakovich Gustav Mahler Jean-Baptiste Lully Antonio Salieri Richard Wagner Elliott Carter Claude Debussy Dieterich Buxtehude Muzio Clementi Guiseppe Verdi Olivier Messiaen Frederick Delius Arcangelo Corelli Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Jakob Offenbach John Cage Richard Strauss Henry Purcell Luigi Cherubini Clara Schumann Benjamin Britten Paul Dukas François Couperin Stephen Storace Anton Bruckner Witold Lutosławski Jean Sibelius Giovanni Bononcini Ludwig van Beethoven Bedřich Smetana Leonard Bernstein Eric Satie Antonio Caldara Niccolò Pagannini Johann Strauss II Malcolm Arnold Vaughan Williams Antonio Vivaldi Louis Spohr Alexander Borodin Pierre Boulez Sergei Rachmaninoff Georg Telemann Carl Maria von Weber Johann Brahms John Williams Gustav Holst Jean-Philippe Rameau Carl Czerny Cammille Saint-Saens Peter Maxwell Davies Arnold Schoenberg Johann Sebastian Bach Giacomo Meyerbee Georges Bizet Alfred Schnittke Charles Ives Giuseppe Scarlatti Gioachino Rossini Modeste Mussorgsky Steve Reich Maurice Ravel George Handel Gaetano Donizetti Pyotr Tchaikovsky Philip Glass Béla Bartók Maurice Greene Franz Schubert Antonin Dvorak Hans Zimmer Igor Stravinsky Johann Hasse Edvard Grieg Sergei Prokofiev Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov George Gershwin Research created equivalent lists of eminent figures in each of the other professions The 100 eminent composers Pre 1700 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century Giovanni Palestrina Giovanni Sammartini HectorThe Berlioz 100 eminent doctors Francis Poulenc Gabriel Faure Claudio Monteverdi William Boyce Felix Mendelssohn F. Aaron Copland Leos Janacek Francesca Caccini, Christoph Gluck thRobert Schumann th William Walton th Pre 1700 18 Century Edward Elgar19 Century 20 Century Girolamo Frescobaldi Niccolò Piccinni Frederick Chopin Michael Kemp Tippett Giacomo Puccini Heinrich Schütz Franz Joseph Haydn Franz Liszt Dmitri Shostakovich Ambroise Paré Carl Linnaeus Johannes GustavMüller Mahler Paul Ehrlich Charles Huggins Jean-Baptiste Lully Antonio Salieri Richard Wagner Elliott Carter Andreas Vesalius John Pringle John SnowClaude Debussy Emil Adolf von Behring Axel Theorell Dieterich Buxtehude Muzio Clementi Guiseppe Verdi Olivier Messiaen Gabriel Fallopius William Cullen James MarionFrederick Sims Delius Sigmund Freud Charles R Drew Arcangelo Corelli Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Jakob Offenbach John Cage Hieronymus Aquapendente Percivall Pott James PagetRichard Strauss Emil Kraepelin Werner Forssmann Henry Purcell SantorioLuigiSantorio Cherubini Leopold AuenbruggerClara Schumann Ignaz Semmelweis William LaneBenjamin Britten Viktor Frankl Paul Dukas François Couperin Jan BaptistaStephenvan Helmont Storace John HunterAnton (& William Bruckner) Joseph Désiré Tholozan Rudolph MatasWitold Lutosławski Severo Ochoa Jean Sibelius Giovanni Bononcini William HarveyLudwig van Beethoven Luigi GalvaniBedřich Smetana Hermann von Helmholtz Frederick HopkinsLeonard Bernstein Rita Levi-Montalcini Eric Satie Antonio Caldara Ole WormNiccolò Pagannini Samuel BardJohann Strauss II Rudolf Virchow Charles NicolleMalcolm Arnold Ian Donald Vaughan Williams Antonio Vivaldi HermannLouis Boerhaave Spohr Pierre-JosephAlexander Desault Borodin Jean-Martin Charcot Karl LandsteinerPierre Boulez "Pim" Kolff Sergei Rachmaninoff Georg Telemann GiovanniCarl Borelli Maria von Weber Philippe PinelJohann Brahms Henry Gray Alexis CarrelJohn Williams Bernard Katz Gustav Holst Jean-Philippe Rameau FranciscusCarlSylvius Czerny Edward JennerCammille Saint-Saens Joseph Lister George WhipplePeter Maxwell Davies Wilfred Bigelow Thomas Willis James Parkinson Theodor BillrothArnold SchoenbergAlexander Fleming Nigel `Sperry Johann Sebastian Bach Giacomo Meyerbee Georges Bizet Alfred Schnittke Thomas Sydenham Samuel Hahnemann Sergey BotkinCharles Ives Otto Heinrich Warburg Jonas Salk Giuseppe Scarlatti Gioachino Rossini Modeste Mussorgsky Steve Reich Marcello Malpighi Franz Joseph Gall Theodor KocherMaurice Ravel Georgios Papanikolaou Joseph Ransohoff George Handel Gaetano Donizetti Pyotr Tchaikovsky Philip Glass Olaf Rudbeck Dominique Larrey Ivan PavlovBéla Bartók Otto Fritz Meyerhof Henry Heimlich Maurice Greene Franz Schubert Antonin Dvorak Hans Zimmer Richard Lower Guillaume Dupuytren Robert KochIgor Stravinsky Frederick Banting Christiaan Barnard Johann Hasse Edvard Grieg Antonio Valsalva René Laennec Wilhelm RöntgenSergei Prokofiev Gerhard Domagk Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Lorenz Heister Wilhelm von Ludwig William OslerGeorge GershwinHelen Taussig David Sackett Gabriel Fallopius James Blundell Peter Freyer Max Theiller Ralph Steinman Jean Astruc Robert Liston Barry Marshall William Cheselden William Smellie Research created equivalent lists of eminent figures in each of the other professions The 100 eminent composers Pre 1700 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century Giovanni Palestrina Giovanni Sammartini HectorThe Berlioz 100 eminent doctors Francis Poulenc Gabriel Faure Claudio Monteverdi William Boyce Felix Mendelssohn F. Aaron Copland Leos Janacek Francesca Caccini, Christoph Gluck thRobert Schumann th William Walton th Pre 1700 18 Century Edward Elgar19 Century 20 Century Girolamo Frescobaldi Niccolò Piccinni Frederick Chopin The 100 eminentMichael Kemp lawyers Tippett Giacomo Puccini Heinrich Schütz Franz Joseph Haydn Franz Liszt Dmitri Shostakovich Ambroise Paré Carl Linnaeus Johannes GustavMüller Mahler Paul Ehrlich Charles Huggins Jean-Baptiste Lully Antonio Salieri Richard Wagner th Elliott thCarter th Andreas Vesalius JohnPre Pringle1700 18 JohnCentury SnowClaude Debussy Emil Adolf von Behring19 Century Axel Theorell 20 Century Dieterich Buxtehude Muzio Clementi Guiseppe Verdi Olivier Messiaen Gabriel Fallopius William Cullen James MarionFrederick Sims Delius Sigmund Freud Charles R Drew Arcangelo Corelli Wolfgang AmadeusConrad Mozart PeutingerJakob OffenbachWilliam Murray David Dudley FieldJohn Cage Clarence Darrow Oliver Wendell Holmes Hieronymus Aquapendente Percivall Pott James PagetRichard Strauss Emil Kraepelin Werner Forssmann Henry Purcell SantorioLuigiSantorio Cherubini ThomasLeopold More AuenbruggerClara SchumannGeorge AbercrombyIgnaz Semmelweis TeodolfoWilliamMertel LaneBenjamin BrittenRufus IsaacsViktor Frankl René Floriot Paul Dukas François Couperin Jan BaptistaStephenvan Helmont Storace EdmundJohn Plowden HunterAnton (& William Bruckner)Johann CasparJoseph Goethe Désiré Tholozan HughRudolph McCalmont MatasWitoldCairnsLutosławskiCharles EvansSevero HughesOchoa Patrick Devlin Jean Sibelius Giovanni Bononcini William HarveyLudwig van BeethovenFrançoisLuigi d'Amboise GalvaniBedřich SmetanaWilliam BlackstoneHermann von HelmholtzJohnFrederick Coleridge HopkinsLeonard BernsteinJames AtkinRita Levi-Montalcini Thurgood Marshall Eric Satie Antonio Caldara Ole WormNiccolò Pagannini AlbericoSamuelGentili BardJohann StraussEdward II ThurlowRudolf Virchow NathanielCharles