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Herbert von Karajan
Austrian conductor (1908–1989)
Arturo Toscanini
Italian conductor (1867–1957)
Claudio Abbado
Italian conductor (1933–2014)
Zubin Mehta
Indian conductor
Valery Gergiev
Russian conductor and opera company director
Georg Solti
Hungarian-British conductor (1912–1997)
Lorin Maazel
French-American conductor (1930-2014)
Riccardo Muti
Italian conductor
Bernard Haitink
Dutch conductor and violinist (1929-2021)
Seiji Ozawa
Japanese orchestra conductor (1935–2024)
Bruno Walter
German-born conductor, pianist, and composer (1876-1962)
Yevgeny Mravinsky
Soviet Russian conductor, pianist, and music pedagogue (1903–1988)
James Levine
American conductor and pianist (1943–2021)
Colin Davis
British conductor (1927–2013)
Rafael Kubelík
Czech conductor, violinist and composer (1914–1996)
Clemens Krauss
Austrian conductor and opera impresario (1893 - 1954)
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Russian conductor and composer (1931-2018)
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English conductor
Carlo Maria Giulini
Italian conductor (1914–2005)
Franz Welser-Möst
Austrian conductor
Erich Kleiber
Austrian conductor (1890–1956)
Christian Thielemann
German conductor
Charles Mackerras
Australian conductor and classical oboist (1925–2010)
André Messager
French opera composer and conductor (1853–1929)
Ferenc Fricsay
(1914–1963) Hungarian musician
Kirill Petrenko
Russian conductor
Fritz Busch
German conductor (1890–1951)
Matthias Manasi
German conductor and pianist (born 1969)
Yevgeny Svetlanov
Russian conductor, composer, and pianist (1928-2002)
Kirill Kondrashin
Russian conductor (1914–1981)
Antonio Pappano
British born, Italian naturalized conductor and pianist
Jesús López Cobos
Spanish conductor (1940-2018)
Tullio Serafin
Italian conductor (1878–1968)
Myung-whun Chung
South Korean pianist and conductor
Simone Young
Australian conductor
Andrew Davis
British conductor (1944–2024)
André Cluytens
Belgian-born French conductor
Vittorio Gui
Italian conductor, and composer (1885-1975)
Franco Faccio
Italian composer and conductor (1840-1891)
Victor de Sabata
Italian conductor and composer (1892-1967)
Tugan Sokhiev
Russian conductor
Joseph Keilberth
German conductor (1908–1968)
Alan Gilbert
American conductor and violinist
Franz Konwitschny
German conductor (1901-1962)
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Spanish conductor (1933–2014)
Otmar Suitner
Austrian conductor (1922-2010)
Kent Nagano
American conductor (1951-)
Niyazi
Niyazi Zulfugar oghlu Taghizade Hajibeyov (; 20 August 1912 – 2 August 1984) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani conductor and composer. People's Artist of the USSR (1959) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1982).
Vladimir Jurowski
Russian conductor
Leo Blech
German opera composer and conductor (1871–1958)
John Pritchard
British conductor (1921–1989)
Teodor Currentzis
Greek conductor
George Georgescu
Romanian musician
Samuil Samosud
Soviet music conductor (1884–1964)
Boris Khaykin
Russian conductor (1904-1978)
Yakov Kreizberg
Russian-American conductor
Alexander Melik-Pashayev
Armenian Soviet conductor (1905–1964)
Bruno Bartoletti
Italian conductor (1926–2013)
Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht
French conductor and composer (1880–1965)
Ariy Pazovsky
Russian conductor (1887–1953)