David Saperton

His students at the Curtis Institute of Music and later include Jacques Abram, Jeanne Behrend, Jorge Bolet, Shura Cherkassky, Sidney Foster, Julius Katchen, Seymour Lipkin, William Masselos, John Simms, Abbey Simon, Eleanor Sokoloff, Dorothy Wanderman, Alan Weiss, and Frances Ziffer.

His principal teacher was German pianist and editor August Spanuth,[4] who himself was a pupil of Carl Heymann and Joachim Raff at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt.

A subsequent recording of ten Chopin-Godowsky studies was never released because RCA contributed the brass masters to be melted down for shell casings to be used in World War II.

Saperton's only extant recording of these studies, issued on the poorly distributed Command Performance label, stem from 1952, when his pianistic prowess was beginning to decline.

[11] Saperton had been introduced by his father-in-law Leopold Godowsky to Josef Hofmann, the Director of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, who hired him as an assistant and as a member of the faculty in 1924.

He taught many famous pianists such as Jacques Abram, Jorge Bolet, Shura Cherkassky, Sidney Foster, Julius Katchen, Eleanor Sokoloff, Seymour Lipkin, John Simms, Abbey Simon, and Alan Weiss.