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Riccardo Chailly
Italian conductor
1
Simon Rattle
British conductor
2
Yuja Wang
Chinese pianist
3
Roberto Abbado
Italian conductor
4
Lorin Maazel
French-American conductor
5
Carlo Maria Giulini
Italian conductor
6
Simone Young
Australian conductor
7
Mariss Jansons
Latvian conductor
8
Patrick Lange
German conductor
9
Kirill Petrenko
Russian conductor
10
Herbert von Karajan
Austrian conductor
11
Carl Schuricht
German conductor
12
Carlos Kleiber
German-born Austrian conductor
13
Christian Thielemann
German conductor
14
Frank Shipway
British conductor
15
Francisco Araiza
opera singer
16
Alceo Galliera
Italian conductor
17
Ferenc Fricsay
Hungarian musician
18
Vladimir Jurowski
Russian conductor
19
Valery Gergiev
Russian conductor and opera company director
20
Otto Klemperer
German conductor and composer
21
Zubin Mehta
Indian conductor
22
Rafael Kubelík
Czech conductor, violinist, composer and director conductor of Czech philharmony
23
Jonathan Nott
British conductor
24
Antonio Meneses
Brazilian musician
25
John Barbirolli
British conductor and cellist
26
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Canadian conductor and pianist
