List of conductors
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These people are famous as choral, orchestral or operatic conductors:
Contents: Top - 0-9 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)
- Samuel Adler
- Yuri Ahronovitch
- Marin Alsop
- Karel Ančerl
- Ernest Ansermet
- Bruno Aprea
- Sir Richard Armstrong
- Vladimir Ashkenazy (equally famous as a pianist)
B
- Sir John Barbirolli
- Daniel Barenboim
- Rudolf Barshai
- Leon Barzin
- Serge Baudo
- Sir Thomas Beecham
- Ludwig van Beethoven (more famous as a composer)
- Eduard van Beinum
- Jiri Belohlvek
- Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli (brother of piano soloist Arturo)
- Paavo Berglund
- Leonard Bernstein
- Hector Berlioz (more famous as a composer)
- Gary Bertini
- Leo Blech
- Karl Bhm
- Richard Bonynge
- Willi Boskovsky (also famous as a violinist)
- Pierre Boulez
- Sir Adrian Boult
- Benjamin Britten (more famous as a composer)
- Max Bruch (better known as a composer)
- Frans Brggen (also famous as a recorder player)
- Jrgen Budday
- Adolf Busch
- Fritz Busch
C
- Oleg Caetani
- Sarah Caldwell
- Guido Cantelli
- Felix Carrasco
- Sergiu Celibidache
- Riccardo Chailly
- Stuart Challender
- Chan Tze Law
- Michael Christie
- William Christie
- Myung-Whun Chung
- Andr Cluytens
- Aaron Copland (more famous as a composer)
- Robert Craft
- Jose Cura (better known as a singer)
- Krzysztof Czerwinski (also organist)
D
- Sir Andrew Davis
- Sir Colin Davis
- Victor De Sabata
- Odaline de la Martinez
- Dean Dixon
- Christoph von Dohnanyi
- Plcido Domingo (better known as a tenor)
- Antal Dorti
- Riccardo Drigo
- Charles Dutoit
E
F
- JoAnn Falletta
- Frederick Fennell
- Franco Ferrara
- Arthur Fiedler
- Mikko Franck
- Louis Frmaux
- Ferenc Fricsay
- Rafael Frhbeck de Burgos
- Wilhelm Furtwngler
G
- Lamberto Gardelli
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Gianandrea Gavazzeni
- Gianluigi Gelmetti
- Valery Gergiev
- Carlo Maria Giulini
- Jane Glover
- Nicolai Golovanov
- Sir Eugene Goossens
- Vittorio Gui
H
- Hartmut Haenchen
- Emmanuelle Ham
- Bernard Haitink
- Sir Charles Hall
- Vernon Handley
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Sir Hamilton Harty
- Sir Bernard Heinze
- Walter Hendl
- Philippe Herreweghe
- Richard Hickox
- Christopher Hogwood (also harpsichordist)
- Jascha Horenstein
I
J
- Isaiah Jackson
- Ren Jacobs (formerly a counter-tenor)
- Mariss Jansons
- Neeme Jrvi
- Paavo Jrvi (son of Neeme)
- Graeme Jenkins
- Eugen Jochum
K
- Robert Kajanus
- Tnu Kaljuste
- Okko Kamu
- Shigeru Kan-no
- Herbert von Karajan
- Joseph Keilberth
- Rudolf Kempe
- Istvan Kertesz
- Carlos Kleiber
- Erich Kleiber
- Otto Klemperer
- Paul Kletzki
- Zoltn Kocsis
- Kiril Kondrashin
- Franz Konwitschny
- Serge Koussevitzky
- Clemens Krauss
- Henry Krips
- Josef Krips
- Rafael Kubelik
- Sigiswald Kuijken
- Efrem Kurtz
L
- Andrew Lane
- Erich Leinsdorf
- Gustav Leonhardt
- Raymond Leppard
- Gilbert Levine
- James Levine
- Andrew Litton
- David Lockington
- Jesus Lopez Cobos
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
- Henry Mayer
- David Measham
- Zubin Mehta
- Amos Meller
- Willem Mengelberg
- Yehudi Menuhin (more famous as a violinist)
- Dimitri Mitropoulos
- Franz Welser-Mst
- Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
- Evgeny Mravinsky
- Pierre Monteux
- Karl Muck
- Charles Munch
- Riccardo Muti
N
O
P
- Paul Paray
- Tibor Paul
- Rudolf Pekarek
- Christof Perick
- Libor Pesek
- Trevor Pinnock
- Mikhail Pletnev (also famous as a pianist)
- Joseph Post
- Georges Pretre
- Andr Previn
- Sir John Pritchard
Q
R
- Beat Raaflaub
- Ezra Rachlin
- Sir Simon Rattle
- Fritz Reiner
- Hans Richter
- Karl Richter
- Fritz Rieger
- Helmuth Rilling
- Stanford Robinson
- Artur Rodzinski
- Hans Rosbaud
- Mstislav Rostropovich (also famous as a cellist)
- Witold Rowicki
- Gennady Rozhdestvensky
- Max Rudolf
- John Rutter (also famous as a composer)
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
- Ole Schmidt
- Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
- Carl Schuricht
- Gerard Schwarz
- Leif Segerstam
- Tullio Serafin
- Robert Shaw
- Nathaniel Shillkret
- Maxim Shostakovich
- Constantin Silvestri
- Giuseppe Sinopoli
- Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
- Felix Slatkin
- Leonard Slatkin
- Vclav Smetacek
- Sir Georg Solti
- Sir William Southgate
- William Steinberg
- Markus Stenz
- Leopold Stokowski
- Richard Strauss (more famous as a composer)
- Igor Stravinsky (more famous as a composer)
- Gustave Strube
- Masaaki Suzuki
- Evgeny Svetlanov
- Hans Swarowsky
- George Szell
T
- Vclav Talich
- Muhai Tang
- Jeffrey Tate
- Vilem Tausky
- Yuri Temirkanov
- Klaus Tennstedt
- Michael Tilson Thomas
- Theodore Thomas
- Patrick Thomas
- Bryden Thompson
- Georg Tintner
- Arturo Toscanini
V
W
- Edo de Waart
- Richard Wagner (more famous as a composer)
- Bruno Walter
- Gnter Wand
- Felix Weingartner
- Walter Weller
- Franz Welser-Mst
- Sir David Willcocks
- Sir Henry Wood
Y
Z
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