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Opera singer (1843–1919)

Austrian composer and pianist (1931–2025)

French pianist (1877–1962

Countertenor singer

Alicia de Larrocha

Spanish pianist

Hungarian-born British musician

Dutch violinist and conductor

Italian tenor (born 1958)

Andrés Segovia

Spanish guitarist

Russian-born Austrian operatic soprano

Italian soprano (17th century)

Arthur Rubinstein

Polish-American classical pianist

Austrian pianist

Arturo Toscanini

19/20th-century Italian conductor

Beniamino Gigli

Bernardo De Pace

Vaudeville performer

Carlo Maria Giulini

Italian conductor

German-born Austrian conductor

Cecilia Bartoli

Italian opera singer

Charles Santley

English opera singer

German mezzo-soprano

Italian conductor (1933–2014)

Chilean pianist

Daniel Barenboim

Argentine-born pianist and conductor (born 1942)

Russian musician

Soviet violinist (1908–1974)

Virtuoso horn player

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

German lyric baritone and conductor (1925–2012)

Romanian pianist and composer (1917–1950)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

German opera soprano

Italian opera tenor (1873–1921)

Scottish percussionist

Italian castrato singer (1705–1782)

Faustina Bordoni

Opera singer (1697-1781)

Nigerian classical musician and composer

Feodor Chaliapin

Russian opera singer

Spanish classical guitarist and composer (1778-1839)

Francisco Tárrega

Spanish composer and classical guitarist (1852-1909)

Italian operatic tenor (1921-2003)

François-Joseph Naderman

French composer (1781-1835)

Friedrich Kalkbrenner

German-born French pianist, composer, piano teacher and piano manufacturer (1784-1849)

Austrian violinist, composer

Fritz Wunderlich

German opera singer

Classical conductor and composer (1897–1970)

Geraldine Farrar

American opera singer and actress

Gheorghe Zamfir

Romanian pan flute musician

Giovanni Battista Rubini

Italian opera singer

Giovanni Bottesini

Italian composer, conductor, and double bass player

Italian opera singer 1811-69

Giuseppe Tartini

Italian composer and violinist (1692–1770)

Canadian pianist (1932–1982)

Gregor Piatigorsky

Russian-born American cellist

Grigory Sokolov

Russian pianist

György Cziffra

Hungarian-French virtuoso pianist and composer (1921-1994)

German opera singer

Hans von Bülow

German conductor and pianist (1830–1894)

Henryk Wieniawski

Polish violinist and composer

Herbert von Karajan

Austrian conductor

American violinist

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Polish pianist and former prime minister

American violinist (1920–2001)

Israeli-American violinist

Jacqueline du Pré

British cellist (1945-1987)

Jacques-Martin Hotteterre

French composer and flautist (1673-1763)

Russian-American violinist (1901–1987)

Jean-Pierre Rampal

French flutist (1922–2000)

19th-century Swedish classical singer

Joan Sutherland

Australian soprano

Johann Christian Fischer

German composer and oboist

John D. Burgess

Eminent Scottish bagpipe player

John Eliot Gardiner

English conductor

German opera singer

English classical guitarist and lutenist

Jussi Björling

Austrian conductor (1894–1981)

Karol Lipiński

Polish musician

Japanese composer and marimba player

New Zealand opera singer

Kirsten Flagstad

Norwegian operatic singer

Krystian Zimerman

Polish classical pianist

Chinese pianist

Lauritz Melchior

Danish opera singer

Leonard Bernstein

American conductor and composer (1918–1990)

American soprano (born 1927)

Leopold Stokowski

British conductor and orchestra director

American pianist, singer, actor (1919–1987)

British musician

Luciano Pavarotti

Italian operatic tenor (1935–2007)

American-born Greek operatic soprano (1923–1977)

Spanish opera singer (1808–1836)

Marian Anderson

African-American contralto

American tenor and actor

Martha Argerich

Argentine/Swiss pianist

Mattia Battistini

Italian opera singer

Michael Kelly (tenor)

Irish tenor and composer

American violinist

Japanese-British pianist, conductor (1948-)

Montserrat Caballé

Spanish operatic soprano (1933–2018)

Mstislav Rostropovich

Russian-American cellist and conductor (1927–2007)

American pianist and conductor

Nathan Milstein

American musician (1902–1992)

Australian opera singer

Niccolò Paganini

Italian violinist and composer

Nicolas Chédeville

French composer and musette maker (1705–1782)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Austrian conductor (1929-2016)

German conductor and composer

Catalan cellist and conductor (1876–1973)

Pablo de Sarasate

Spanish violinist and composer (1844–1908)

French musician

American musician (1914-1992)

French music conductor (1875–1964)

Plácido Domingo

Spanish opera singer and conductor

Romanian pianist

Régine Crespin

Italian opera singer

American soprano

American operatic soprano

Bohemian-born American pianist (1903–1991)

Serge Koussevitzky

Russian-born conductor, composer and double-bassist and music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (1874-1951)

Sergei Lemeshev

Soviet opera singer and director (1902-1977)

Sergiu Celibidache

Romanian conductor (1912–1996)

British conductor (born 1955)

Sviatoslav Richter

Soviet pianist (1915–1997)

Czech opera singer

British conductor and impresario (1879–1961)

Italian opera singer

Operatic baritone

Turlough O'Carolan

Irish composer and musician (1670–1738)

American pianist (1934–2013)

Vassilis Tsitsanis

Greek songwriter and bouzouki player

Victoria de los Ángeles

Catalan/Spanish opera singer

Vincenzo Galilei

Italian lutenist, composer and music theorist

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Icelandic pianist and conductor from Russia

Vladimir Horowitz

Russian and American pianist (1903–1989)

Wanda Landowska

Polish harpsichordist and pianist (1879–1959)

Wilhelm Backhaus

Wilhelm Furtwängler

German conductor and composer

German pianist and composer

William Primrose

Scottish violist (1904-1982)

American violinist and conductor (1916–1999)

Yevgeny Mravinsky

Russian conductor, pianist, and music pedagogue (1903–1988)

Chinese-American cellist