Top Classical Conductors
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| Claudio Abbado (290) |
| Antoni Wit (Conductor) (141) |
| Sir John Barbirolli (174) |
| Daniel Barenboim (180) The only child of musical parents, Barenboim studied first with his mother, then with his father. After his debut in Buenos Aires at the age of seven, his parents (descendants of Russian Jews from Odessa) decided to move to Israel. |
| Leonard Bernstein (283) |
| Karl Bohm (184) |
| Richard Bonynge (176) Richard Bonynge, conductor Born in Sydney, Richard Bonynge studied at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music and the Royal College of Music in London. |
| Adrian Boult [Conductor] (180) |
| Riccardo Chailly (147) |
| Colin Davis (Conductor) (235) |
| Charles Dutoit (155) |
| John Eliot Gardiner (171) |
| Gianandrea Gavazzeni (145) |
| Carlo Maria Giulini (185) |
| Bernard Haitink (188) |
| Nikolaus Harnoncourt (140) |
| Richard Hickox (277) |
| Neeme Jarvi (214) |
| Herbert Von Karajan (659) The Austrian-born conductor Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989) was possibly the most significant conductor during the second half of the twentieth century. As an interpreter he is thought to have made more recordings than any other classical artist. |
| James Levine (178) |
| Lorin Maazel (184) |
| Sir Charles Mackerras (294) |
| Kurt Masur (219) |
| Zubin Mehta (255) |
| Riccardo Muti (209) |
| Eugene Ormandy (218) |
| Seiji Ozawa (154) |
| Georges Pretre (132) |
| Andre Previn (224) |
| Sir Simon Rattle (189) |
| Wolfgang Sawallisch (128) Sawallisch began to learn the piano at the age of five, studying theory and composition while still at school and subsequently becoming a pupil of Ruoff, Haas, and Sache in Munich, prior to joining the German army in 1942; following the end of World... |
| Gerard Schwarz (199) |
| Tullio Serafin (149) |
| Sir Neville Marriner (406) |
| Leonard Slatkin (148) Internationally recognized American conductor Leonard Slatkin will become Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 2008-2009, after completing his 12th and final season as... |
| Sir Georg Solti (242) |
| George Szell (135) |
| Barry Wordsworth (132) Barry Wordsworth's career has been dominated by his work for the Royal Ballet which started when he played the solo part in Frank Martin's Harpsichord Concerto, a score used by Sir Kenneth MacMillan for his ballet, Las Hermanas. |
| David Zinman (151) |