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Claudio Abbado
Italian conductor (1933-2014)
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Riccardo Chailly
Italian conductor
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Carlo Maria Giulini
Italian conductor
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Vladimir Ashkenazy
Icelandic pianist and conductor from Russia
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Herbert von Karajan
Austrian conductor
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Paavo Berglund
Finnish conductor and violinist
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Otto Klemperer
German conductor and composer
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Georg Solti
Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
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Lorin Maazel
French-American conductor
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
orchestra based in London
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William Steinberg
American conductor
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Julius Baker
American musician
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Willi Boskovsky
Austrian musician
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London Philharmonic Orchestra
London based symphony orchestra
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Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
German composer
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Erich Leinsdorf
American conductor
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Mariss Jansons
Latvian conductor
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Anatole Fistoulari
British musician
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Charles Mackerras
Australian conductor
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Pablo Heras-Casado
Spanish conductor
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Colin Davis
British conductor
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John Barbirolli
British conductor and cellist
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Leif Segerstam
Finnish conductor and composer
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Rafael Kubelík
Czech conductor, violinist, composer and director conductor of Czech philharmony
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Yevgeny Mravinsky
Russian conductor, pianist, and music pedagogue (1903–1988)
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Mischa Elman
Ukrainian American violinist
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Eugen Jochum
German conductor
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Arthur Nikisch
Hungarian conductor
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Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Russian conductor and composer
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
German lyric baritone and conductor
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Felix Weingartner
Austrian conductor, composer and pianist
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Carl von Garaguly
Hungarian musician
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Herbert Blomstedt
Swedish conductor
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Adrian Boult
English conductor
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John Eliot Gardiner
English conductor
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Roger Norrington
British conductor
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Ferenc Fricsay
Hungarian musician
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Fabio Luisi
Italian conductor
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Carlos Kleiber
German-born Austrian conductor
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Sol Gabetta
Argentine cellist
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Okko Kamu
Finnish conductor and violinist
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James Loughran
British conductor
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Pierre Monteux
French conductor
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Christian Thielemann
German conductor
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Esa-Pekka Salonen
Finnish conductor and composer
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Leonard Bernstein
American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
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Myung-whun Chung
South Korean pianist and conductor
