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Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney is an English musician and songwriter. He gained global fame with the Beatles, for whom he was the bassist and keyboardist, and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon. McCartney is known for his melodic approach to bass-playing, versatile tenor vocal range and musical eclecticism, exploring genres ranging from pre-rock and roll pop to classical, ballads and electronica. His songwriting partnership with Lennon is the most successful in music history.
Umm Kulthum
Egyptian singer and actress (1904–1975)
Ravi Shankar
Indian sitar player (1920–2012)
Maria Meneghini Callas
American-Greek operatic soprano (1923–1977)
Montserrat Caballé
Spanish operatic soprano (1933–2018)
Scorpions
German rock band
Plácido Domingo
Spanish tenor and conductor (born 1941)
Herbert von Karajan
Austrian conductor (1908–1989)
Mstislav Rostropovich
Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor (1927-2007)
Olivier Messiaen
French composer, organist and ornithologist (1908–1992)
Claudio Abbado
Italian conductor (1933–2014)
Philip Glass
American composer (born 1937)
Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish composer and conductor (1933–2020)
Yehudi Menuhin
American violinist and conductor (1916–1999)
Martha Argerich
Argentine pianist (1941-)

Vanessa-Mae
Vanessa-Mae (; born 27 October 1978), also called Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, is a Singaporean-born British violinist and skier with Thai heritage from her father. Her album sales reached several million by 2006, making her the wealthiest entertainer aged under 30 in the United Kingdom at that time. She is known for fusing classical and popular genres, which she calls "violin techno-acoustic fusion". This crossover style combines her classical violin training with electronic music influences like techno and synth-pop, as seen for example in the title track from her album Storm from 1997.

Fairuz
Nouhad Wadie Haddad (born 20 November 1934 or 21 November 1935), known as Fairuz, is a Lebanese singer. She is widely considered an iconic vocalist and one of the most celebrated singers in the Arab world. She is popularly known as "The Bird of the East", "The Cedar of Lebanon", "The Moon's Neighbor", "The Voice of Lebanon", and "Our Ambassador to the Stars", among others.
Marian Anderson
African-American contralto (1897–1993)

Daniel Barenboim
Israeli Argentine-born pianist and conductor (born 1942)
David Oistrakh
Soviet violinist (1908-1974)
Itzhak Perlman
Israeli-American violinist and conductor (born 1945)

Wilhelm Furtwängler
German conductor and composer (1886–1954)
Witold Lutosławski
Polish composer and conductor (1913-1994)

Anne-Sophie Mutter
German violinist
Anoushka Shankar
British-American musician
Kiri Te Kanawa
New Zealand opera singer

Evgeny Kissin
Russian classical pianist
Leopold Stokowski
British-born American conductor (1882–1977)

Jacqueline du Pré
British cellist (1945–1987)

Q77060
German lyric baritone and conductor (1925-2012)
Bernard Haitink
Dutch conductor and violinist (1929-2021)

Simon Rattle
British conductor (born 1955)

Angela Gheorghiu
Romanian opera soprano
Vienna Boys' Choir
boys' choir in Vienna, Austria

Sergiu Celibidache
Romanian conductor (1912–1996)

Q313639
English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist

Giuseppe Di Stefano
Italian opera singer

Abdelhalim Hafez
Egyptian singer and actor (1929–1977)
Neville Marriner
British conductor and violinist (1924–2016)
Mohammed Abdel Wahab
Egyptian singer, actor and composer (1896-1991)
Zbigniew Preisner
Polish composer
Alexandrov Ensemble
Soviet Russian musical group; official army choir of the Russian armed forces
Karl Jenkins
Welsh musician and composer (b. 1944)

Peter Maxwell Davies
English composer and conductor (1934-2016)

Alfredo Kraus
Spanish tenor (1927–1999)
John Tavener
British composer (1944-2013)

Nigel Kennedy
British-born violinist and violist (born 1956)

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Maxim Vengerov
Russian violinist, violist, and conductor

Diana Damrau
German soprano opera singer

Roberto Alagna
French tenor

Warda El- Djazairia
Algerian singer (1939-2012)
Michael Tippett
English composer (1905-1996)

Janet Baker
British opera and concert singer
Thomas Adès
British composer, pianist and conductor
Wolfgang Sawallisch
German conductor and pianist (1923–2013)
Agnes Baltsa
Greek mezzosoprano
Joyce DiDonato
American opera mezzo-soprano
Maurice Andrés
French trumpeter born in Occitania (1933-2012)
Natalie Dessay
French opera soprano