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Thomas Sanderling
German conductor
1
Christian Thielemann
German conductor
2
Otto Klemperer
German conductor and composer
3
Vladimir Jurowski
Russian conductor
4
James Loughran
British conductor
5
Gerhild Romberger
German singer
6
Simon Rattle
British conductor
7
Mariss Jansons
Latvian conductor
8
Peter Rösel
German pianist
9
Roger Norrington
British conductor
10
Kurt Masur
German conductor
11
Simon Halsey
British conductor
12
David Porcelijn
Dutch composer and conductor
13
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Finnish conductor and composer
14
Sergiu Celibidache
Romanian conductor
15
Herbert von Karajan
Austrian conductor
16
Katrin Scholz
German university teacher
17
William Steinberg
American conductor
18
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Austrian conductor
19
Carlo Maria Giulini
Italian conductor
20
Rolf Kleinert
German conductor
21
Andrew Davis
British conductor
22
Walter Weller
Austrian conductor
23
Claudio Abbado
Italian conductor (1933-2014)
24
Arvīds Jansons
Latvian conductor
25
Wolfgang Sawallisch
German conductor and pianist
26
Santtu-Matias Rouvali
Finnish conductor and percussionist
27
Lorin Maazel
French-American conductor
28
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Spanish conductor
29
Eugen Jochum
German conductor
30
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Canadian conductor and pianist
31
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
German lyric baritone and conductor
32
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London based symphony orchestra
33
Seiji Ozawa
Japanese orchestra conductor
34
Yuja Wang
Chinese pianist
