Biographies: Notable Concert Instrumentalists

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Notable Concert Instrumentalists

Walter Gieseking

See also

• Notable Women Musicians and Dancers
• Notable African-American Musicians
• Notable African-American Visual and Performing Artists
• Asian American Artists and Musicians
• Notable Hispanic-American Musicians and Visual Artists

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Biographies by Category

• Adler, Larry, American harmonica player
• Albéniz, Isaac, Spanish pianist and composer
• Arrau, Claudio, Chilean classical pianist
• Auer, Leopold, Hungarian violinist and teacher
• Bulow, Hans Guido, Freiherr von, German pianist and conductor
• Barenboim, Daniel, Israeli pianist and conductor
• Barrí¨re, Georges, French-American flutist and conductor
• Biggs, E. Power, Anglo-American organist
• Bream, Julian, English guitarist and lutenist
• Busch, Adolf, German-Swiss violinist
• Busoni, Ferruccio Benvenuto, Italian pianist and composer
• Carreño, Teresa, Venezuelan pianist
• Casadesus, Robert, French pianist and composer
• Casals, Pablo (Pau), Spanish virtuoso cellist and conductor
• Cliburn, Van, American pianist
• Couperin, Franí§ois, French harpsichordist and composer
• Elman, Mischa, Russian-American violinist
• Feuermann, Emanuel, Austrian-born virtuoso cellist
• Frescobaldi, Girolamo, Italian organist and composer
• Gabrilowitsch, Ossip, Russian-American pianist and conductor;
• Gieseking, Walter, German pianist
• Gould, Glenn, Canadian pianist and composer
• Guilmant, Félix Alexandre, French organist
• Heifetz, Jascha, Russian-American violinist
• Henselt, Adolf von, German pianist and composer
• Hess, Dame Myra, English pianist
• Horowitz, Vladimir, Russian-American virtuoso pianist
• Hummel, Johann Nepomuk, Hungarian-born pianist and composer
• Iturbi, José, Spanish-American pianist
• Joachim, Joseph, Hungarian violinist
• Kennedy, Nigel, British violinist
• Kreisler, Fritz, Austrian-American violinist
• Landowska, Wanda, Polish-French harpsichordist and pianist
• Ma, Yo-Yo, American cellist
• Mannes, David, American violinist
• Menuhin, Yehudi, British violinist and conductor
• Midori, Asian-American violinist
• Milstein, Nathan, Russian violinist
• Oistrakh, David Feodorovich, Ukrainian violinist
• Paderewski, Ignace Jan, Polish pianist
• Paganini, Niccolí², Italian violinist
• Perlman, Itzhak, Israeli musician
• Primrose, William, Scottish-American violist
• Rachmaninoff, Sergei Vasilyevich, Russian pianist
• Rampal, Jean-Pierre, French virtuoso flutist
• Richter, Sviatoslav, Russian pianist
• Rosenthal, Moriz, Polish pianist;
• Rubinstein, Anton Grigoryevich, Russian pianist
• Rubinstein, Arthur, Polish-American pianist
• Sarasate, Pablo de, Spanish violin virtuoso
• Schnabel, Artur, Austrian-American pianist
• Segovia, Andrés, Spanish guitarist
• Serkin, Rudolf, Austrian-American pianist
• Stern, Isaac, American violinist
• Szigeti, Joseph, Hungarian-American violinist
• Tartini, Giuseppe, Italian violinist
• Viotti, Giovanni Battista, Italian violinist
• Ysaí¿e, Eugí¨ne, Belgian violinist
• Zukerman, Pinchas, Israeli violinist and conductor