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Claudio Abbado

Italian conductor (1933-2014)

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New York Philharmonic Orchestra

American symphony orchestra in New York, NY

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Canadian conductor and pianist

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

German lyric baritone and conductor

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Dimitri Mitropoulos

Greek conductor, pianist, and composer

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Otto Klemperer

German conductor and composer

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Erich Leinsdorf

American conductor

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Rafael Kubelík

Czech conductor, violinist, composer and director conductor of Czech philharmony

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William Steinberg

American conductor

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Michael Tilson Thomas

American conductor, pianist and composer

10

Eugen Jochum

German conductor

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Herbert von Karajan

Austrian conductor

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Seiji Ozawa

Japanese orchestra conductor

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Carlo Maria Giulini

Italian conductor

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Esa-Pekka Salonen

Finnish conductor and composer

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Yuja Wang

Chinese pianist

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Carl Schuricht

German conductor

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Carlos Kleiber

German-born Austrian conductor

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Felix Weingartner

Austrian conductor, composer and pianist

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Joseph Alfidi

pianist, composer and conductor

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Lorin Maazel

French-American conductor

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Simon Rattle

British conductor

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Gustav Mahler

Austrian late-Romantic composer

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Sergiu Celibidache

Romanian conductor

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Wiener Singverein

concert choir

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Columbia Symphony Orchestra

orchestra

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Thomas Adès

British composer, pianist and conductor

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John Barbirolli

British conductor and cellist

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Charles Munch

French musician

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Adele Addison

American opera singer

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Markus Stenz

German conductor

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Leopold Stokowski

British conductor

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Ferenc Fricsay

Hungarian musician

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Victor de Sabata

Italian conductor and composer

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Arturo Toscanini

Italian conductor (1867-1957)

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Eugene Istomin

American pianist