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David Oistrakh
Soviet violinist
1
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Icelandic pianist and conductor from Russia
2
Vladimir Horowitz
American classical pianist and composer
3
Igor Markevitch
Ukrainian conductor and composer
4
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
5
Yevgeny Svetlanov
Russian conductor, composer, and pianist
6
Alexander Glazunov
Russian composer, music teacher and conductor
7
Sergei Prokofiev
Ukrainian & Russian Soviet pianist and composer
8
Sviatoslav Richter
Soviet pianist
9
Jascha Heifetz
Lithuanian violinist
10
Nikolai Myaskovsky
Russian composer
11
Nikolai Medtner
British composer and pianist
12
Alexander Scriabin
Russian pianist and composer
13
Leonid Kogan
Soviet musician
14
Erroll Garner
American jazz pianist and composer
15
Arthur Rubinstein
Polish-American classical pianist
16
Van Cliburn
American pianist
17
Leonard Caston
American blues pianist and guitarist
18
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)
19
Willi Boskovsky
Austrian musician
20
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer, pianist and conductor
21
Leopold Stokowski
British conductor
22
Evgeny Kissin
Russian classical pianist
23
Carl Reinecke
German composer, conductor and pianist
24
Andrei Gavrilov
Russian musician
25
Meade Lux Lewis
American pianist and composer
26
Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
27
Jacques Ibert
French composer
28
Dimitri Bashkirov
Russian pianist
29
Ivo Pogorelić
Croatian pianist
30
Rodion Shchedrin
Russian composer
31
Mstislav Rostropovich
Russian cellist and conductor
32
Ahmad Jamal
American jazz pianist
33
Nathaniel Shilkret
American composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive, and music director
34
Simon Barere
Russian musician
35
Reinhold Glière
Soviet Ukrainian composer
36
Tikhon Khrennikov
Russian Soviet composer (1913-2007)
37
Wilhelm Backhaus
pianist
38
Oscar Peterson
Canadian jazz pianist, band leader, composer
39
Isaac Stern
American musician
