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Sergiu Celibidache
Romanian conductor
1
Otto Klemperer
German conductor and composer
2
Wolfgang Sawallisch
German conductor and pianist
3
William Steinberg
American conductor
4
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
German composer
5
Kurt Sanderling
German conductor
6
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
German lyric baritone and conductor
7
Carl Schuricht
German conductor
8
Christian Thielemann
German conductor
9
Mariss Jansons
Latvian conductor
10
Rafael Kubelík
Czech conductor, violinist, composer and director conductor of Czech philharmony
11
Ferenc Fricsay
Hungarian musician
12
Wiener Singverein
concert choir
13
Günter Wand
German orchestra conductor
14
Arthur Nikisch
Hungarian conductor
15
Marek Janowski
German conductor
16
Lisa Batiashvili
Georgian musician
17
Herbert von Karajan
Austrian conductor
18
Simone Young
Australian conductor
19
Shlomo Mintz
Israeli violin virtuoso, violist and conductor
20
Carlo Maria Giulini
Italian conductor
21
Kent Nagano
American conductor and opera administrator
22
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Canadian conductor and pianist
23
Karl Böhm
Austrian conductor
24
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Austrian conductor
25
Paavo Berglund
Finnish conductor and violinist
26
James Loughran
British conductor
27
Riccardo Chailly
Italian conductor
28
Simon Rattle
British conductor
29
Carlos Kleiber
German-born Austrian conductor
30
Rico Saccani
Italian conductor
31
Boris Belkin
Soviet violinist
32
Herbert Blomstedt
Swedish conductor
