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Claudio Abbado
Italian conductor (1933-2014)
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Karl Böhm
Austrian conductor
2
Eugen Jochum
German conductor
3
Christian Thielemann
German conductor
4
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
German lyric baritone and conductor
5
Francisco Araiza
opera singer
6
Ferenc Fricsay
Hungarian musician
7
Mariss Jansons
Latvian conductor
8
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Austrian conductor
9
Carlos Kleiber
German-born Austrian conductor
10
Georg Solti
Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
11
Christian Ferras
French musician
12
Fritz Wunderlich
German tenor
13
Otto Klemperer
German conductor and composer
14
Wiener Singverein
concert choir
15
Arthur Nikisch
Hungarian conductor
16
John Barbirolli
British conductor and cellist
17
Herbert Blomstedt
Swedish conductor
18
Leonard Bernstein
American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
19
Gundula Janowitz
Austrian opera soprano
20
Helen Donath
American soprano
21
Walter Weller
Austrian conductor
22
Lorin Maazel
French-American conductor
23
Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet
British conductor and impresario
24
Simon Rattle
British conductor
25
Paavo Berglund
Finnish conductor and violinist
26
Carlo Maria Giulini
Italian conductor
27
Carl Schuricht
German conductor
28
Victor de Sabata
Italian conductor and composer
29
Rafael Kubelík
Czech conductor, violinist, composer and director conductor of Czech philharmony
30
Reiner Goldberg
German opera singer
31
Leonidas Kavakos
Greek violinist
32
Seiji Ozawa
Japanese orchestra conductor
33
Sergiu Celibidache
Romanian conductor
34
Shlomo Mintz
Israeli violin virtuoso, violist and conductor
35
Wolfgang Sawallisch
German conductor and pianist
36
Okko Kamu
Finnish conductor and violinist
37
Thomas Sanderling
German conductor
38
Felix Weingartner
Austrian conductor, composer and pianist
