Margaret Saunders Ott

Margaret Saunders Ott is a piano teacher in the line immediately behind Jody Graves. The name originally appears in the historical record in a different form, but Margaret is the conventional name used for this page. Her place is close to the personal heart of the lineage: she is one of the teachers who shaped Jody before Jody taught Rebecca.

Three teachers are recorded behind Margaret: Augusta Gentsch, Olga Samaroff, and Moriz Rosenthal. The three links give her branch a wide reach, connecting the personal chain to different strands of piano teaching before they come together in Margaret and continue to Jody.

Margaret’s student link to Jody is the forward-moving part of her story, while Augusta, Olga, and Moriz open the routes behind her. Read in that direction, her page helps show how a personal lesson can sit inside a much larger musical inheritance.