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This is a list of families including three or more classical musicians. Non-musical family members are not included. Names that already have an established family entry are redirected to the main article - unless (as with Mendelssohn) they include mainly non-musical members, in which case the musicians are extracted here.

  • Alain family of French musicians, particularly organists[1]
    • Albert Alain (1880–1971), organist, composer and organ builder
      • Jehan Alain (1911–1940), organist, composer and soldier
      • Marie-Odile Alain (1914–1937), organist
      • Olivier Alain (1918–1994), organist, pianist, musicologist and composer
      • Marie-Claire Alain (1926–2013), organist and scholar
  • Andriessen family of Dutch composers[2]
    • Willem Andriessen (1887–1964), composer and pianist
    • Hendrik Andriessen (1892–1981), composer and organist
    • Johanna Justina Andriessen (nee Anschütz, 1898–1975), pianist, wife of Hendrik

  • Bach family of notable composers of the baroque and classical periods[3]
    Main article: Bach family
  • Bassano family of Italian musicians, many of whom moved to England[4]
    • Jeronimo Bassano, piffero player to the Doge of Venice between 1506 and 1512
      • Alvise (died London, 15–31 Aug 1554), worked for the Scuola di San Marco, Venice in 1515, and the Concerto Palatino in Bologna between 1519 and 1521
        • Augustine (bur. London, Oct 24, 1604)
        • Lodovico (bur. London, July 18, 1593)
      • Jasper [Gasparo] (bur. London, 8 May 1577)
      • John [Zuane] (died Venice, Sept–Dec 1570)
      • Anthony [Antonio] (i) (bur. London, 19 Oct 1574)
        • Mark Anthony (born London, 10 Jan 1546; died London, 11 Sep 1599)
        • Arthur (born London, 31 Oct 1547; bur. London, 10 Sept 1624)
          • Anthony (ii) (born London, 15 Oct 1579; bur. London, 22 Apr 1658)
        • Andrea (born London, 12 Aug 1554; bur. Horne, Surrey, 3 Aug 1626)
          • Thomas (?bap. London, 27 Feb 1589; bur. London, 29 Sept 1617)
        • Edward (i) (born London, 19 Oct 1551; bur. London, 25 May 1615)
        • Jeronimo (ii) (born London, March 11, 1559; bur. Waltham Abbey, Essex, Aug 22, 1635)
          • Scipio (bap. London, 11 Dec 1586; died London, 26 Nov 1613)
          • Edward (ii) (bap. London, 28 Dec 1588; died London, 22 Oct 1638)
          • Henry (bap. London, 8 April 1597; bur. London, 29 Aug 1665)
      • Jacomo (in Venice between 1542 and 1545)
          • Giovanni Bassano (grandson of Jacomo, born ?Venice, 1560/61; died Venice, Aug 16, 1617)
      • Baptista (bur. London, 11 April 1576)
  • Bedford family of English musicians[5]
  • Borsdorf family of horn players, the younger generation changed their surname to Bradley[6]
  • The Brain family, founded a great school of horn playing in England[7]
  • The Bull family of Norway, including musicians[8]

  • The Carter family, English organists, three of whom were later active in Canada[9]
    • John Carter (1802–????), organist at St Matthew's, Bethnal Green, married Anne Leach, 1831
      • John Carter (1832–1916), organist and composer, emigrated to Canada in 1853
      • George Carter (1835–1890), organist and composer, emigrated to Canada in 1861, organist at Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal.
      • Henry Carter (1837–1901), organist and composer, emigrated to Canada 1850s and to the US in 1864
      • William Carter (1838–1917), organist and composer, founded the original Royal Albert Hall choir
  • Casadesus family, prominent French artistic family including many musicians (1870s-1990s)[10]
    Main article: Casadesus family
  • Chaplin family, members of the Chaplin Trio, reviving early music from 1889 until the late 1920s[11]
    Main article: Chaplin Trio
    • Elaine Mary (or Nellie) Chaplin (1857–1930), piano and harpsichorf
    • Kate Chaplin (1865–1948), violin, viola d'amore
    • Mabel Chaplin (1870–1960), cello, viola da gamba
  • Couperin family, musical dynasty of professional composers and performers of the French Baroque (17th—18th centuries)[12]
    Main article: Couperin family
  • Cramer family of German musicians, active in England[13]

  • Devriès family of Dutch opera singers over three generations (1830s-1940s)[14]
    Main article: Devriès family
  • Draper family, English musical family including two pioneering clarinetists[15]
    • Samuel Draper (1824–1888), amateur cellist and flautist
      • Paul Draper (1854–1922), bassoonist, teacher, military musician
        • Marion Draper (1887–????), violinist and pianist
        • Haydn Draper (1889–1934), clarinetist, military and orchestral player
        • Mendelssohn Draper (1891–1970), bass clarinet specialist, orchestral player
      • Richard Draper (1857–1938), bassoonist, Queen's Hall Orchestra, D’Oyle Carte and Carl Rosa Opera companies.
      • Charles Draper (1869–1952), "the grandfather of English clarinetists"[16]
        • Charles Carrington Draper (1897–1930), violinist
        • Paul Beaumont Draper (1899–1971), bassoonist, founder member of the Melos Ensemble
  • Düben family, exerted a significant influence on the golden age of music (17th century) at the Swedish Royal Court Orchestra[17]
    Main article: Düben family

  • Fawcett family of 19th and 20th century professional orchestral players and amateur musicians from Yorkshire[18]
Main article: Fawcett (musical family)

  • Hambourg family, of Russian origins[21]
    • Michael Hambourg (1855–1916), Russian pianist, pupil of Nikolai Rubinstein, emigrated to London (1890), then Canada (1910)
      • Mark Hambourg (1879–1960), internationally famous pianist
        • Michal Augusta Hambourg (1919–2004), pianist
      • Jan Hambourg (1882–1947), violinist, music editor, active in Europe as a concert violinist
      • Boris Hambourg (1885–1954), cellist, settled in Toronto, Canada (1910)
      • Clement Hambourg (1900–1973), Canadian pianist and jazz promoter,
    • Alexander Hambourg (1870–????), conductor, brother of Michael, came to England in 1896
      • Charles Hambourg (1895–1979), cellist and conductor
  • Hann family of English musicians from South London[22]
    • William Henry Hann, viola (1831–1920) (married Sophie Hopkins, see below)
      • Edward Hopkins Hann (1861–1929), violin, founding member of London Symphony Orchestra
      • William Charles Hann (1863–1926), cellist, Philharmonic Society Orchestra
      • Lewis Robert Hann (1865–1937), violinist, composer, music professor at Cheltenham Ladies College
      • Sydney Herbert Hann (1867–1921), organist, pianist, hymn tune composer, teacher
      • Clement Walter Hann (1870–1921), cellist, 2nd violin, Philharmonic Society Orchestra
      • Marianne Sophia Hann (1878–1926), mezzo soprano, teacher
  • Hannikainen family of Finnish composers and performers[23]
  • Hanssens family of Flemish musicians[24]
  • The Harrison family, four English sisters, all musical child prodigies[25]
  • Hellmesberger family of Viennese musicians, established the Hellmesberger Quartet in 1849[26]
  • Hobday family of English musicians[27]
    • Charles Dunn Hobday had a music-selling business in Faversham, and later Rochester
      • Bessie Hobday, pianist, organist, elder sister of Alfred
      • Alfred Charles Hobday (1870–1942), viola player
      • Claude Hobday (1872–1954) double bass player
      • Ethel Hobday, née Sharpe (1872–1947), Irish pianist, wife of Alfred
      • Maud Hobday (1874–1941), violinist and pianist, younger sister of Alfred
      • Gertrude Hobday, pianist and singer, younger sister of Alfred
  • Hopkins family of English instrumentalists, particularly early clarinetists and organists[28]
    • Edward Hopkins (c1757–c1790), horn player
      • Edward Hopkins (1779–1859), bandmaster (Scots Guards), violinist and clarinetist
        • Louise Lloyd, née Hopkins (c1817–1880), RAM, music teacher
        • Richard Lloyd, married to Louise Lloyd, counter tenor and vicar choral at Westminster Abbey
        • Edward Hopkins (1818–1842), organist at Armagh Cathedral
        • John Larkin Hopkins (1819–1873), organist and composer
        • Sophia Hann, née Hopkins (1835– died before 1912), married viola player W.H. Hann (see 'Hann' above)
        • Eliza Frances Hopkins (c1837–1921), married Charles Ould, cellist (see 'Ould', below)
      • George Hopkins (????–1869), clarinetist

  • Järvi family of conductors, composers and performers, of Estonian origin[29]
    Main article: Järvi Family
    • Vallo Järvi (1923–1994), Estonian American conductor, brother of Neeme
      • Andrus Järvi (born 1953), violist
      • Sirje Järvi, pianist, wife of Andrus
      • Teet Järvi (1958–2025), cellist
      • Mari Järvi (born 1959), pianist, wife of Teet
        • Marius Järvi (born 1981), cellist
        • Miina Järvi (born 1983), violinist
        • Mihkel Järvi (born 1985), pianist
        • Madis Järvi (born 1988), violist
        • Martin Järvi (born 1994), violist
    • Neeme Järvi (born 1937), conductor
      • Paavo Järvi (born 1962), conductor
      • Tatiana Berman, violinist, ex wife of Paavo
      • Maarika Järvi (born 1964), flautist
      • Kristjan Järvi (born 1972), conductor, composer and producer.
      • Leila Josefowicz (born 1977), American-Canadian violinist, ex-wife of Kristjan Järvi

  • Kanneh-Mason family, British musical siblings of Antiguan descent[30]
    • Isata Kanneh-Mason (born 27 May 1996) pianist
    • Sheku Kanneh-Mason (born 4 April 1999), cellist
    • Braimah Kanneh-Mason (born 2000), violinist
    • Konya Kanneh-Mason (born 2003), violin and piano
    • Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (born 2004), cello and piano
    • Aminata Kanneh-Mason (born 2007), violin and piano
    • Mariatu Kanneh-Mason (born 2011), cello and piano
  • Kerzelli family, large family of musicians of Italian, Czech or Austrian origin[31]
    Main article: Kerzelli family

  • Mendelssohn family, extensive German Jewish family, descendants of Mendel of Dessau[34]
    Main article: Mendelssohn family
  • Menuhin family of American musicians[35]
  • Moralt family: 18 members in the Munich Hofkapelle orchestra between 1787 and 1920[36]
    • Adam Moralt (c1741–1811), orchestral manager
      • Johann Wilhelm Moralt (1774 – died after 1842), viola player
        • Wilhelm Moralt (1815–1874), violinist, (the second) Moralt Quartet
      • Joseph Moralt (1775–1855), violinist, Moralt String Quartet
      • Johann Baptist Moralt (1777–1825), violinist and composer, Moralt String Quartet
      • Jacob Moralt (1780–1820), violinist, Moralt String Quartet
      • Philipp Moralt (1780–1830) cellist, dedicatee of Danzi's Cello Concerto in E minor
        • Peter Moralt (1814– died after 1866), violinist
        • Theodor Moralt (1817–1877), treasurer for the Royal Theater, Munich
      • John Alvis Moralt (1780–1830s?), viola player, husband of Sophie Dussek
      • Sophia Giustina Dussek (née Corri; later Moralt) (1775– c1831), singer, pianist and composer
      • Clementine Moralt (1797–1845), contralto
  • Mozart family, ancestors, relatives and descendants of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[37]
    Main article: Mozart family
  • The Mukle family of England, originally from Germany
    • Leopold Mukle (c1829 – died after 1896), German born organ builder, originally from the Black Forest, active in England
      • Anne Mukle (1866–1941), pianist
      • Flora Mukle (1873–????), singer
      • Lillian Mukle (1874–????), trumpeter
      • Louisa Mukle (1879–????), musician
      • May Mukle (1880–1963), cellist and composer
      • Clara Mukle, musician
        • Nora Mukle (1911-1993), double bass player, wife of Vernon Elliott, niece of Mukle sisters
  • Münch family of Alsatian French conductors
    • Ernst Münch (1859–1928), organist and choir conductor
    • Eugen Münch, conductor, brother of Ernst

  • Ould family of English musicians[22]
    • Charles Ould (1835–1913), cellist, married Eliza Frances Hopkins in 1862 (see 'Hopkins', above)
      • Charles Hopkins Ould, organist and pianist (1865–????)
      • Percy Ould, violinist (1868-????)
      • Kate Emma Ould, cellist (????-????)
      • Mary Ould, violinist and pianist (1879-????)

  • Piffet family of French violinists and composers[39]
    • Pierre Piffet (born late 17th century; died after 1760)
      • Pierre-Louis Piffet (c1706–1773)
      • Joseph-Antoine Piffet (c1710– died late 18th century)
        • Louis-François-Barthélemy Piffet (1734–1779)
  • Puccini family of Italian musicians over five generations[40]
    • Jacopo Puccini (1712–1781)
      • Antonio Puccini (1747–1832), composer and organist

  • Tcherepnin family of Russian musicians[44]

  • Wagner family, ancestors, relatives and descendants of Richard Wagner.[46]
    Main article: Wagner family
  • Walenn family, Walenn String Quartet (1890s), annual Waleen Chamber concerts series[47]
    • Skene Charlotte Walenn (née Barth, 1837-1927), British musical amateur, mother of 15 children
    • Alice Barth (1848–1910), operatic soprano, sister of Skene
      • Isabella Walenn (1857–1936), Royal Choral Society
      • Ellie Walenn (1858–1929), musician and for 15 years head teacher at Roedean School
      • James Walenn (1860–1884), composer, from 1879 organist at St Alban's Holborn, conductor of the St Alban's Choral Society
      • Arthur Walenn (mid-1860s–1937), viola player, dubut as baritone, Queen's Hall, November 1895
      • Charles Walenn (1867–1948), singer and actor comic baritone roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas
      • Frederick Dudley Walenn (1869-1933), amateur musician and the composer
      • Herbert Walenn (1870–1953), cellist (Kruse Quartet and Walenn Quartet)
      • Gerald Walenn (1871–1942), violinist and composer, leader of the Walenn Quartet, emigrated to Australia in 1917
      • Dorothea Walenn (1875–1948) taught violin at St Paul's Girls' School, performed in the Walenn Quartet
  • Weber Family, German musical family[48]
  • Wesley family, English founders of Methodism and noted musicians[49]
  • Winterbottom family of British military band musicians in 19th and 20th centuries[50]
    Main article: Winterbottom (musical family)

References

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  2. ^ Yayoi Uno Everett. The Music of Louis Andriessen (2006)
  3. ^ Karl Geiringer. The Bach Family: Seven Generations of Creative Genius (1954)
  4. ^ Lasocki, David, with Roger Prior, The Bassanos: Venetian Musicians and Instrument Makers in England, 1531-1665 (Cambridge: Scolar Press, 1995), pp. 217, 251-256.
  5. ^ David Bedford obituary, The Independent, 10 October 2011
  6. ^ The LSO in World War I: The Sad Tale of Adolph Borsdorf, London Symphony Orchestra website
  7. ^ Morley-Pegge, Reginald, and Niall O'Loughlin. 'Brain family', in Grove Music Online (2001)
  8. ^ Einar Haugen and Camilla Cai. Ole Bull: Norway's Romantic Musician and Cosmopolitan Patriot (1993
  9. ^ 'William Carter', The Cambridge Encyclopedia (2007)
  10. ^ Robert/Jean/Gaby Casadesus: First Family Of The Piano, DVD documentary (2004)
  11. ^ 'Nellie Chaplin and her sisters', Semibrevity, May 2015
  12. ^ Wilfrid Mellers. Francois Couperin And The French Classical Tradition (1968)
  13. ^ Simon McVeigh. 'Cramer, Wilhelm', in Grove Music Online (2001)
  14. ^ Elizabeth Forbes. 'Devriès family [De Vries]', in Grove Music Online (2001)
  15. ^ Malcolm McMillan. The Draper Family: a Musical Legacy, Samek Music (2018)
  16. ^ Pamela Weston. Clarinet Virtuosi of the Past (1971)
  17. ^ Bengt Kyhlberg, revised by Bertil H. van Boer. 'Düben family', in Grove Music Online (2001)
  18. ^ H. A. Chambers, H. R. Fawcett, G. H. Wright. 'The Fawcett Family', Musical Times, Vol. 113, No. 1556 (October 1972), p. 972
  19. ^ Carole Rosen. The Goossens: A Musical Century (1994)
  20. ^ The Grimson family and the First World War, The Western Front Association
  21. ^ Eric Koch, The Brothers Hambourg (Robin Brass Studio, 1997)
  22. ^ a b 'The Hanns', Streatham News, 29 October 1920, p. 5
  23. ^ Timo Mäkinen and Kimmo Korhonen. 'Hannikainen family', Grove Music Online (2001)
  24. ^ John Lade. 'Hanssens family', in Grove Music Online (2001)
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  30. ^ Kanneh-Mason, Kadiatu. House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons (2020)
  31. ^ Richard Taruskin. 'Kerzelli family', in Grove Music Online (2001)
  32. ^ John Snelson. Andrew Lloyd Webber (2004)
  33. ^ Peter Holman. Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court, 1540–1690 (1996)
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  37. ^ Ruth Halliwell. The Mozart Family: Four Lives in a Social Context (1998)
  38. ^ 'The Novello Family and Friends', National Portrait Gallery
  39. ^ Jeffrey Cooper. 'Piffet family [Pifet, Pifay, Pifait]', in Grove Music Online (2001)
  40. ^ Julian Budden. Puccini: His Life and Works (2002)
  41. ^ Roberto Pagano and others. 'Scarlatti family', Grove Music Online (2001)
  42. ^ Saerchinger, Cesar. Artur Schnabel. A Biography (1957)
  43. ^ Peter Kemp. 'Strauss family', in Grove Music Online (2001)
  44. ^ 'Tcherepnin family', in Grove Music Online (2001)
  45. ^ Steven Ledbetter. 'Vecoli family [Veccoli]', in Grove Music Online (2001)
  46. ^ Jonathan Carr. The Wagner Clan (2007)
  47. ^ James Duff Brown and Stephen Stratton. British Musical Biography (1897), pp. 427-428
  48. ^ Grove, George (1900). "Weber Family" . A Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol. 4.6. p. 429.
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  50. ^ 'A Notable Family: The Winterbottoms', in The Cornishman, 26 February 1903), p. 3
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