List of conductors
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A list of people known as choral, orchestral or operatic conductors. In opera, many composers also served as direttori (Italian: directors).
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A
- Claudio Abbado
- Hermann Abendroth
- Maurice Abravanel
- Salvatore Accardo (more famous as a violinist)
- Kurt Herbert Adler
- Samuel Adler
- Yuri Ahronovich
- Marin Alsop
- Karel Ančerl
- Ernest Ansermet
- Bruno Aprea
- Ataúlfo Argenta
- Sir Richard Armstrong
- Takashi Asahina
- Vladimir Ashkenazy (also famous as a pianist)
B
- Sir John Barbirolli
- Daniel Barenboim (also famous as a pianist)
- Leon Barzin
- Serge Baudo
- Sir Thomas Beecham
- Ludwig van Beethoven (more famous as a composer)
- Eduard van Beinum
- Jiří Bělohlávek
- Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli (brother of piano soloist Arturo)
- Paavo Berglund
- Leonard Bernstein (also famous as a composer)
- Hector Berlioz (more famous as a composer)
- Gary Bertini
- Ulf Björlin
- Leo Blech
- Herbert Blomstedt
- Artur Bodansky
- Karl Böhm
- Richard Bonynge
- Willi Boskovsky (also famous as a violinist)
- Pierre Boulez
- Sir Adrian Boult
- Benjamin Britten (more famous as a composer)
- Max Bruch (better known as a composer)
- Anshel Brusilow (founder of the Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia)
- Frans Brüggen (also famous as a recorder player)
- Jürgen Budday
C
- Ronaldo Carrillo
- Roberto Carrillo
- Pablo Casals (better known as a cellist)
- Juan Castelao
- Eugene Mariano Castillo
- Sergiu Celibidache
- Riccardo Chailly
- Zdenek Chalabala
- Stuart Challender
- Chan Tze Law
- Eric Chisholm (better know as a composer of Scottish Music)
- F. Melius Christiansen
- William Christie
- Myung-Whun Chung
- André Cluytens
- Albert Coates
- Maurizio Colasanti
- Aaron Copland (more famous as a composer)
- Robert Craft
- Jose Cura (better known as a singer)
- Krzysztof Czerwinski (also an organist)
D
- Paul Daniel
- Sir Andrew Davis
- Sir Colin Davis
- Meredith Davies
- Oliviero De Fabritiis
- Andreas Delfs
- Victor De Sabata
- Richard Divall
- Dean Dixon
- Christoph von Dohnanyi
- Plácido Domingo (more famous as a tenor)
- Leonard Dommett (more famous as a violinist)
- Antal Doráti
- Edward Downes
- Riccardo Drigo
- Charles Dutoit
E
F
- JoAnn Falletta
- Frederick Fennell
- Franco Ferrara
- Arthur Fiedler
- John Forsyth
- Nicolette Fraillon
- Mikko Franck
- Louis Frémaux
- Ferenc Fricsay
- Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
- János Fürst
- Wilhelm Furtwängler
G
- Lamberto Gardelli
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Aleksandr Gauk
- Gianandrea Gavazzeni
- Gianluigi Gelmetti
- Valery Gergiev
- Richard Gill
- Errol Girdlestone
- Carlo Maria Giulini
- Jane Glover
- Isidore Godfrey
- Nikolay Golovanov
- Vladimir Golschmann
- Sir Eugene Goossens
- Howard Griffiths
- Sir Charles Groves
- Vittorio Gui
H
- Hartmut Haenchen
- Emmanuelle Haïm
- Bernard Haitink
- Sir Charles Hallé
- Vernon Handley
- Daniel Harding
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Sir Hamilton Harty
- Daniel Hege
- Sir Bernard Heinze
- Walter Hendl
- Philippe Herreweghe
- Richard Hickox
- Christopher Hogwood (also a harpsichordist)
- Jascha Horenstein
I
J
- Isaiah Jackson
- René Jacobs (formerly a counter-tenor)
- Didier Jacquin
- Mladen Jagusht
- Mariss Jansons
- Neeme Järvi
- Paavo Järvi
- Graeme Jenkins
- Eugen Jochum
- William Ifor Jones
- Vakhtang Jordania
- Louis-Antoine Jullien (1812-1860)http://louisjullien.site.voila.fr
K
- Robert Kajanus
- Tõnu Kaljuste
- Okko Kamu
- Shigeru Kan-no
- Richard Kapp
- Herbert von Karajan
- Milton Katims
- Joseph Keilberth
- Rudolf Kempe
- Istvan Kertesz
- Carlos Kleiber
- Erich Kleiber
- Otto Klemperer
- Paul Kletzki
- Hans Knappertsbusch
- Zoltán Kocsis
- Kiril Kondrashin
- Franz Konwitschny
- Serge Koussevitzky
- Clemens Krauss
- Yakov Kreizberg
- Henry Krips
- Josef Krips
- Rafael Kubelik
- Sigiswald Kuijken
- Efrem Kurtz
L
- Odaline de La Martinez
- Geoffrey Lancaster
- Andrew Lane
- Wilfred Lehmann
- Erich Leinsdorf
- Ferdinand Leitner
- Gustav Leonhardt
- Raymond Leppard
- Gilbert Levine
- James Levine
- Andrew Litton
- David Lockington
- Jesus López Cobos
- James Loughran
- Natalia Luis-Bassa
M
- Peter Maag
- Lorin Maazel
- Sir Charles Mackerras
- Zdenek Macal
- Gustav Mahler (more famous as a composer)
- Igor Markevitch
- Sir Neville Marriner
- Jean Martinon
- Eduardo Marturet
- Kurt Masur
- Eduardo Mata
- Lovro von Matacic
- Henry Mayer
- David Measham
- Zubin Mehta
- Alexander Melik-Pashayev
- Amos Meller
- Willem Mengelberg
- Yehudi Menuhin (Lord Menuhin; more famous as a violinist)
- Marc Minkowski
- Dimitri Mitropoulos
- Andrew Mogrelia
- Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
- Pierre Monteux
- Rudolf Moralt
- Wyn Morris
- Evgeny Mravinsky
- Karl Muck
- Charles Munch
- Ilya Musin (specially as teacher)
- Riccardo Muti
N
- Kent Nagano
- John Neschling
- Tomas Netopil
- Václav Neumann
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin
- Sir Roger Norrington
- Jasmina Novokmet, Faculty of Arts [link], Prishtina-Zvecan, Serbia
- Jens Nygaard
O
- Kazushi Ono
- Peter Oundjian
- Karl Österreicher
- Sakari Oramo
- Eugene Ormandy
- Seiji Ozawa
P
- Carlos Païta
- Jorma Panula
- Iakovos Pappas
- Antonio Pappano
- Paul Paray
- Giuseppe Patanè
- Tibor Paul
- Marika Pečená
- Rudolf Pekarek
- Christof Perick
- Libor Pešek
- Paul Phillips
- Trevor Pinnock (also famous as a harpsichordist)
- Michel Plasson
- Mikhail Pletnev (also famous as a pianist)
- Carlo Ponti Jr.
- Joseph Post
- Georges Pretre
- André Previn
- Sir John Pritchard
- John Pryce-Jones
R
- Sir Dr. Valentin Radu
- Gal Rasché
- Rahbani brothers (Assi Rahbani)
- Herminigildo Ranera (Filipino Conductor)
- Sir Simon Rattle
- Fritz Reiner
- Shardad Rohani
- Kaisa Roose
- Mstislav Rostropovich (more famous as a cellist)
- George Rothman
- Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
- Xavier Rist
S
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
- Howard Sam
- Samuil Samosud
- Kurt Sanderling
- Stefan Sanderling
- Michele Santorsola
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste
- Sir Malcolm Sargent
- Kentaro Sato
- Wolfgang Sawallisch
- Henrik Schaefer
- Hermann Scherchen
- Heinrich Schiff also famous as a cellist
- Thomas Schippers
- Ole Schmidt
- Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
- Carl Schuricht
- Gerard Schwarz
- Claudio Scimone (founder and leader of I Solisti Veneti)
- Leif Segerstam
- Tullio Serafin
- Robert Shaw
- Jovan Shajnovich
- Nathaniel Shillkret
- Maxim Shostakovich
- Angel Shurev
- Louis Siciliano
- Constantin Silvestri
- Yuri Simonov
- Giuseppe Sinopoli
- Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
- Felix Slatkin
- Leonard Slatkin
- Václav Smetacek
- Sir Georg Solti
- Stefan Solyom
- John Philip Sousa (also famous as a composer)
- Sir William Southgate
- Vladimir Spivakov
- Massimiliano Stefanelli
- William Steinberg
- Markus Stenz
- Michael Stern
- Leopold Stokowski
- Richard Strauss (more famous as a composer)
- Igor Stravinsky (more famous as a composer)
- Gustave Strube
- Masaaki Suzuki
- Evgeny Svetlanov
- Hans Swarowsky
- George Szell
T
- Václav Talich
- Muhai Tang
- Jeffrey Tate
- Vilem Tausky
- Yuri Temirkanov
- Klaus Tennstedt
- Michael Tilson Thomas
- Theodore Thomas
- Patrick Thomas
- Bryden Thompson
- Heinz Tietjen
- Georg Tintner
- Arturo Toscanini
- Nayden Todorov
- Hervé Treille
- Kirk Trevor
V
- Osmo Vänskä
- Vladimir Verbitsky
- Jos Vermunt
- Marcello Viotti
- Antonino Votto
W
- Edo de Waart
- Richard Wagner (more famous as a composer)
- Bruno Walter
- Günter Wand
- Felix Weingartner
- Walter Weller
- Franz Welser-Möst
- John Williams
- Hugh Wolff
- Sir David Willcocks
- Niklas Willén
- Sir Henry J Wood
- Woon Wen Kin
- Simon Wright [link]
Y
Z
- Benjamin Zander
- Zivojin Zdravkovich
- Alberto Zedda
- Hans Zender
- Alberto Zelman
- David Zinman
See also
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