List of famous conductors
These people are famous as choral, orchestral or operatic conductorss:A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- Claudio Abbado
- Maurice Abravanel
- Salvatore Accardo (more famous as a violinist)
- Karel Ancerl
- Samuel Adler
- Marin Alsop
- Ernest Ansermet
- Bruno Aprea
- Vladimir Ashkenazy (equally famous as a pianist)
B
- Sir John Barbirolli
- Daniel Barenboim
- Rudolf Barshai
- Leon Barzin
- Serge Baudo
- Sir Thomas Beecham
- Eduard van Beinum
- Jiri Belohlávek
- Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli (brother of piano soloist Arturo)
- Leonard Bernstein
- Paavo Berglund
- Leo Blech
- Karl Böhm
- Richard Bonynge
- Willi Boskovsky (also famous as a violinist)
- Pierre Boulez
- Sir Adrian Boult
- Lord Benjamin Britten (more famous as a composer)
- Max Bruch (better known as a composer)
- Frans Bruggen (also famous as a recorder player)
- Adolf Busch
- Fritz Busch
C
- Guido Cantelli
- Felix Carrasco
- Sergiu Celibidache
- Stuart Challender
- Aaron Copland (more famous as a composer)
- Riccardo Chailly
- William Christie
- Myung-Whun Chung
- André Cluytens
- Robert Craft
- Jose Cura (better known as a singer)
D
- Sir Andrew Davis
- Sir Colin Davis
- Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
- Victor De Sabata
- Odaline de la Martinez
- Christoph von Dohnanyi
- Placido Domingo (better known as a tenor)
- Antal Doráti
- Charles Dutoit
F
- Frederick Fennell
- Franco Ferrara
- Arthur Fiedler
- Louis Fremaux
- Ferenc Fricsay
- Wilhelm Furtwängler
G
- Lamberto Gardelli
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Gianandrea Gavazzeni
- Valery Gergiev
- Carlo Maria Giulini
- Jane Glover
- Nicolai Golovanov
- Sir Eugene Goossens
- Vittorio Gui
H
- Emmanuelle Haïm
- Bernard Haitink
- Sir Charles Hallé
- Sir Hamilton Harty
- Vernon Handley
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Sir Bernard Heinze
- Philippe Herreweghe
- Richard Hickox
- Christopher Hogwood (also harpsichordist)
- Jascha Horenstein
I
- Eliahu Inbal
- Hiroyuki Iwaki
J
- Isaiah Jackson
- Mariss Jansons
- Neeme Järvi
- René Jacobs (formerly a counter-tenor)
- Graeme Jenkins
- Eugen Jochum
K
- Robert Kajanus
- Herbert von Karajan
- Joseph Keilberth
- Rudolf Kempe
- Istvan Kertesz
- Carlos Kleiber
- Erich Kleiber
- Otto Klemperer
- Paul Kletzki
- Kiril Kondrashin
- Franz Konwitschny
- Serge Koussevitzky
- Henry Krips
- Josef Krips
- Rafael Kubelik
- Sigiswald Kuijken
- Efrem Kurtz
L
- Erich Leinsdorf
- Gilbert Levine
- James Levine
- Raymond Leppard
- Andrew Litton
- Jesus Lopos Coboz
M
- Peter Maag
- Lorin Maazel
- Sir Charles Mackerras
- Zdenek Macal
- Gustav Mahler (a famous conductor and composer)
- Sir Neville Marriner
- Jean Martinon
- Eduardo Marturet
- Kurt Masur
- Eduardo Mata
- Lovro von Matacic
- Zubin Mehta
- Willem Mengelberg
- Lord Yehudi Menuhin (more famous as a violinist)
- Dimitri Mitropoulos
- Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
- Evgeny Mravinsky
- Pierre Monteux
- Karl Muck
- Charles Munch
- Riccardo Muti
N
- Václav Neumann
- Sir Roger Norrington
- Jens Nygaard
O
- Sakari Oramo
- Eugene Ormandy
- Seiji Ozawa
P
- Paul Paray
- Libor Pesek
- Trevor Pinnock
- Mikhail Pletnev (also famous as a pianist)
- Georges Pretre
- André Previn
- Sir John Pritchard
R
- Sir Simon Rattle
- Karl Richter
- Fritz Rieger
- Fritz Reiner
- Artur Rodzinski
- Hans Rosbaud
- Mstislav Rostropovich(also famous as a cellist)
- Witold Rowicki
- Max Rudolf
S
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
- Kurt Sanderling
- Michele Santorsola
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste
- Sir Malcolm Sargent
- Wolfgang Sawallisch
- Claudio Scimone (founder and leader of Solisti Veneti)
- Hermann Scherchen
- Thomas Schippers
- Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
- Ole Schmidt
- Carl Schuricht
- Gerard Schwarz
- Tullio Serafin
- Robert Shaw
- Maxim Shostakovich
- Constantin Silvestri
- Giuseppe Sinopoli
- Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
- Felix Slatkin
- Leonard Slatkin
- Václav Smetacek
- Sir Georg Solti
- William Steinberg
- Markus Stenz
- Leopold Stokowski
- Richard Strauss (more famous as a composer)
- Igor Stravinsky (more famous as a composer)
- Masaaki Suzuki
- Evgeny Svetlanov
- Hans Swarowsky
- Georg Szell
T
W
- Edo de Waart
- Günter Wand
- Bruno Walter
- Felix von Weingartner
- Walter Weller
- Franz Welser-Möst
- Sir Henry Wood