Selmar Janson (27 May 1881[1] – 19 November 1960[2]) was a German-born American pianist and teacher, whose most prominent student was Earl Wild.
[4] His teachers included Sally Liebling, Eugen d'Albert, Xaver Scharwenka, Hans Pfitzner and Philipp Rüfer (1844–1919).
[4][5][6] He toured Germany with great success, and repeated this in many concerts after coming to the United States.
[11] Other students of Janson's included Louis Crowder (1907–1998),[12][13][14] Paul Scherr, Leonard Sharrow, Ruth Scott Clark (1912–2009),[15] and Annette Roussel-Pesche (1914–1997; whose other teachers included Alfred Cortot, Nadia Boulanger, Pierre Fournier and Georges Dandelot).
[16][17] Margaret H. Leisering (1911–1996)[18] In around 1935, Janson offered the seven-year-old Byron Janis a scholarship, but Janis's mother insisted, over the objections of the rest of the family, many of whom lived in Pittsburgh, that he be sent to New York to study with Adele Marcus and the Lhévinnes.