Category
page 1Jewish classical pianists
Boris Pasternak
Russian writer (1890–1960)
Felix Mendelssohn
German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of Jewish descent (1809-1847)
George Gershwin
American composer and pianist (1898–1937)
Leonard Bernstein
American conductor and composer (1918–1990)

Arthur Rubinstein
Polish-American classical pianist (1887-1982)

Vladimir Horowitz
Russian and American pianist (1903–1989)
Aaron Copland
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)

Anton Rubinstein
Russian pianist, composer and conductor (1829–1894)
Martha Argerich
Argentine pianist (1941-)
György Ligeti
Hungarian composer (1923-2006)

Daniel Barenboim
Israeli Argentine-born pianist and conductor (born 1942)

Władysław Szpilman
(1911-2000) Polish pianist, composer, Holocaust survivor

Fanny Mendelssohn
German pianist and composer (1805–1847)

André Previn
German-American conductor, pianist, and composer (1929–2019)
Georg Solti
Hungarian-British conductor (1912–1997)

Evgeny Kissin
Russian classical pianist

Charles-Valentin Alkan
French composer and pianist (1813–1888)
Victor Borge
Danish comedian and pianist (1909–2000)
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Icelandic pianist and conductor from Russia (born 1937)

Emil Gilels
Soviet pianist (1916-1985)

Nikolai Rubinstein
Russian pianist, conductor and composer (1835-1881)

James Levine
American conductor and pianist (1943–2021)

András Schiff
Hungarian-born British musician (born 1953)

Mark Taimanov
Soviet chess player (1926–2016)
Murray Perahia
American pianist and conductor (born 1947)

Artur Schnabel
Austrian pianist (1882-1951)

Alice Herz-Sommer
British Jewish pianist and music teacher from Bohemia
Hélène Grimaud
French pianist

Ferdinand Hiller
German composer and conductor (1811–1885)

Clara Haskil
Romanian-Swiss classical pianist (1895-1960)

Ignaz Moscheles
Bohemian conductor, music educator, composer and pianist (1794–1870)

György Kurtág
Hungarian composer

George Szell
Classical conductor and composer (1897–1970)
Radu Lupu
Romanian pianist (1945–2022)

Rudolf Serkin
Bohemian-born American pianist
Paul Badura-Skoda
Austrian musician (1927-2019)
Leopold Godowsky
American pianist, composer, and teacher (1870–1938)
Moritz Moszkowski
German composer, pianist and teacher (1854–1925)
Annie Fischer
classical pianist (1914–1995)
Grigory Sokolov
Russian pianist
Géza Anda
Swiss pianist and conductor of Hungarian birth (1921-1976)
Paul Wittgenstein
Austrian pianist of Jewish heritage, emigrant from Nazi Austria to USA (1887-1961)
Oscar Levant
American comedian, composer, pianist and actor (1906-1972)
Maria Yudina
Soviet pianist
Alexis Weissenberg
Bulgarian musician (1929–2012)
Erwin Schulhoff
Czech composer and pianist (1894–1942)
Leon Fleisher
American conductor and pianist (1928–2020)
Boris Berezovsky
Russian virtuoso pianist
Lili Kraus
Hungarian born English classical pianist (1903–1986)
Nicolas Slonimsky
Russian composer (1894-1995)
Myra Hess
British pianist (1890–1965)
Michael Tilson Thomas
American conductor, pianist and composer
Leó Weiner
(1885–1960) composer, music pedagogue
Emanuel Ax
American pianist
Menahem Pressler
German-born American classical pianist
Gina Bachauer
Greek pianist
Carl Tausig
Polish pianist (1841–1871)
Felix Blumenfeld
Russian composer, pianist, conductor (1863-1931)
Alexander Goldenweiser
Russian musician (1875-1961)
Lazar Berman
Russian pianist (1930-2005)