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This is a list of Wikipedia articles on notable viola players. In cases where a violist has also achieved fame in another musical area, such as conducting or composing, this is noted.

Notable violists

A Tasso Adamopoulos (1944–2021) Julia Rebekka Adler (b. 1978) Adolfo Alejo (b. 1986), conductor Sir Hugh Allen (1869–1946), conductor Kris Allen (b. 1985) Vladimir Altshuler (b. 1946), conductor Ruben Altunyan (1939–2021), composer, conductor Johann Andreas Amon (1763–1825) B. Tommy Andersson (b. 1964), composer, conductor Paul Angerer (1927–2017), composer Steven Ansell (b. 1954) Atar Arad (b. 1945), composer Cecil Aronowitz (1916–1978) Dino Asciolla (1920–1994) Jean-Marie Auberson (1920–2004), violinist, conductor Emilie Autumn Eddie Ayres (b. 1967) B Joseph Baber (1937–2022), composer Johann Aegidius Bach (1645–1716), organist Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), composer Sigismund Bachrich (1841–1913), composer, violinist August Baeyens (1895–1966), composer Vladimir Bakaleinikov (1885–1953), conductor, composer Michael Balling (1866–1925), conductor Alain Bancquart (1934–2022), composer Rudolf Barshai (1924–2010), conductor Hans-Christian Bartel (1932–2014), composer Yuri Bashmet (b. 1953) Cathy Basrak (b. 1977) Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858–1921) Sally Beamish (b. 1956), composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), composer Sviatoslav Belonogov (b. 1965) Mitrofan Belyayev (1836–1904) František Benda (1709–1786), composer Jiří Antonín Benda (1722–1795), composer Daniel Benyamini (1925–1993) Wilhelm Georg Berger (1929–1993), composer Yehonatan Berick (b. 1968), violinist Harry Berly (1905–1937) Lise Berthaud (b. 1982) Vasily Bessel (1843–1907), music publisher Roger Best (1936–2013) Mikhail Bezverkhny (b. 1947), violinist Franz Beyer (1922–2018), musicologist Hatto Beyerle (1933–2023), chamber musician, conductor Luigi Alberto Bianchi (1945–2018) Benjamin Blake (1751–1827), composer, violinist Herbert Blendinger (1936–2020), composer Joseph von Blumenthal (1782–1856), violinist, composer Alexandre Pierre François Boëly (1785–1858) Emil Bohnke (1888–1928), composer, conductor Vadim Borisovsky (1900–1972) Jacques Borsarello (b. 1951) York Bowen (1884–1961), composer, pianist Máximo Arrates Boza (1859–1936), composer Frank Bridge (1879–1941), composer Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), composer Carolyn Waters Broe, composer, conductor Sheila Browne (b. 1971) František Brož (1896–1962), composer Gerard von Brucken Fock (1859–1935), composer Bjarne Brustad (1895–1978), composer, violinist Peter Bucknell (b. 1977) Kenji Bunch (b. 1973) Caleb Burhans (b. 1980), composer C John Cale (b. 1942) Helen Callus Bartolomeo Campagnoli (1751–1827), composer, violinist Giuliano Carmignola (b. 1951), violinist David Aaron Carpenter (b. 1986) Henri Casadesus (1879–1947) Gérard Caussé (b. 1948) Eugenio Cavallini (1806–1881), violinist, conductor Alain Celo (b. 1960), composer Ladislav Černý (1891–1975) Eugène Chartier (1893–1963), violinist, conductor Roger Chase (b. 1953) André Hippolyte Chélard (1789–1861), composer, conductor Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979), composer Caroline Coade Eric Coates (1886–1957), composer Paul Coletti (b. 1959) Anthony Collins (1893–1963), composer, conductor Serge Collot (1923–2015) Carlton Cooley (1898–1981), composer Winifred Copperwheat (1905–76), performer, teacher Paul Cropper (1913–2006) Wayne Crouse (1924–2000) John Curro (1932–2019), conductor D David Dalton (1934–2022) Harry Danks (1912–2001) Steven Dann (b. 1953) Gyula Dávid (1913–1977) Tania Davis (b. 1975) Brett Dean (b. 1961) Christophe Desjardins (1962–2020) Jack Delano (1914–1997), composer Alan de Veritch (b. 1947) Brett Deubner (b.1968) Patrizia Di Paolo Roberto Díaz (b. 1960) Viacheslav Dinerchtein (b. 1976) Paul Doktor (1919–1989) Demetrius Constantine Dounis (1886–1954), violinist, pedagogue Dimitris Dragatakis (1914–2001), composer Karen Dreyfus Duncan Druce (1939–2015), composer Fyodor Druzhinin (1932–2007) Philip Dukes (b. 1968) Matthias Durst (1815–1875), violinist, composer Charles Dutoit (b. 1936), conductor Lawrence Dutton (b. 1954) Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904), composer E Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1814–1865), violinist Ernest van der Eyken (1913–2010), composer, conductor F Ralph Farris (b. 1970) Kristina Fialová Federigo Fiorillo (1753–c.1823), violinist, composer, pedagogue William Flackton (1709–1978), composer Richard Fleischman (b. 1963) Watson Forbes (1909–1997) Cecil Forsyth (1870–1941), composer Johannes Fritsch (1941–2010), composer Lillian Fuchs (1901–1995) Arthur Furer (1924–2013), composer, violinist Paul Walter Fürst (1926–2013), composer Kenji Fusé (b. 1965), composer G Grigori Gamburg (1900–1967), composer, conductor John Garvey (1921–2006), conductor Ottmar Gerster (1897–1969), composer, conductor Carlo Maria Giulini (1914–2005), conductor Bruno Giuranna (b. 1933) Donald A. Glaser (1926–2013), Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roland Glassl (b. 1972) Rosemary Glyde (1948–1994), composer Rivka Golani (b. 1946) Richard Goldner (1908–1991) Yuval Gotlibovich Jonny Greenwood, lead guitarist of Radiohead Ebbe Grims-land (1915–2015) Amihai Grosz (b. 1979)

H Veronika Hagen (b. 1963) Dietmar Hallmann (b. 1935) Hope Hambourg (1902–1989) Harutyun Hanesyan (1911–1987), composer John Harbison (b. 1938), composer Kenneth Harding (1903–1992), composer Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), composer Donald Heins (1878–1949), violinist, conductor, composer Willy Hess (1859–1939), violinist Raphael Hillyer (1914–2010) Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), composer Alfred Charles Hobday (1870–1942) Manfred Honeck (b. 1958), conductor Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (1954–2006), mezzo-soprano I Nobuko Imai (b. 1943) Yuko Inoue J Hanoch Jacoby (1909–1990), composer Baudime Jam (b. 1972), composer Janine Jansen (b. 1978), violinist Leroy Jenkins (1932–2007) Raymond Jeremy (1890–1969) Otto Joachim (1910–2010), composer Matthew Jones (b. 1974), violinist K Jiří Kabeš (b. 1946), singer, songwriter Thomas Kakuska (1940–2005) Jan Karlin (b. 1954), producer, administrator Jurgis Karnavičius (1884–1941), composer Gilad Karni Kim Kashkashian (b. 1952) Milton Katims (1909–2006), conductor Martha Strongin Katz (b. 1942) Hugo Kauder (1888–1972), composer, violinist Nigel Keay (b. 1955), composer Nigel Kennedy (b. 1956), violinist Louise Lincoln Kerr (1892–1977), composer Isabelle van Keulen (b. 1966), violinist Volker David Kirchner (1942–2020), composer Dmitri Klebanov (1907–1987) Paul Klengel (1854–1935), violinist, pianist Garth Knox (b. 1956) Ulrich Koch (1921–1996) Vesko Kountchev (b. 1974) František Kočvara (1730–1791), composer Katalin Kokas (b. 1978), violinist Johann Král (1823–1912), also played viola d'amore Tosca Kramer (1903–1976) Alison Krauss (b. 1971) Emil Kreuz (1867–1932) Milan Křížek (1926–2018), composer Boris Kroyt (1897–1969) Theodore Kuchar (b. 1960), conductor Ferdinand Küchler (1867–1937), violinist, composer Michael Kugel (b. 1946) Sigiswald Kuijken (b. 1944), violinist, conductor L Michelle LaCourse Théophile Laforge (1863–1918) Édouard Lalo (1823–1892), composer Anne Lanzilotti (b. 1983), composer Jaime Laredo (b. 1941), violinist Victor Legley (1915–1994), composer Pierre Lénert (b. 1966) Harold Levin (b. 1956) Avri Levitan (b. 1973) Jodi Levitz Teng Li Ingvar Lidholm (1921–2017), composer Samuel Lifschey (1889–1961) Lim Soon Lee (b. 1957), conductor Alfred Lipka (1931–2010) Ernest Llewellyn (1915–1982), violinist, conductor Lloyd Loar instrument designer, composer, played viola alta James Lockyer (1883–1962) James Lowe (b. 1976), conductor Lydia Luce, singer-songwriter Pál Lukács (1919–1981) M Jef Maes (1905–1996), composer Virginia Majewski (1907–1995) Sergey Malov (b. 1983), violinist Mat Maneri (b. 1969), composer, violinist Michael Mann (1919–1977), violinist Jethro Marks Carlo Martelli (b. 1935), composer Tatjana Masurenko (b. 1965) Uri Mayer (b. 1946), conductor Eduard Melkus (b. 1928), violinist Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), composer Vladimir Mendelssohn (1949–2021), composer Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), violinist John Metcalfe (b. 1964) Michel Michalakakos (b. 1954) Miroslav Miletić (1925–2018), composer Shlomo Mintz (b. 1957), violinist Marco Misciagna (b. 1984), violinist, educator Alexander Mishnaevski Roberto Molinelli (b. 1963), composer, conductor Nils Mönkemeyer (b. 1978) Pierre Monteux (1875–1964), conductor Arie Van de Moortel (1918–1976), composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), composer Janee Munroe (1923–2006) Henry Myerscough (1927–2007) N Philipp Naegele (1928–2011), violinist Naruhito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1960) Oskar Nedbal (1874–1930), composer Paul Neubauer (b. 1962) Václav Neumann (1920–1995), conductor Maria Newman (b. 1962), violinist, composer Casimir Ney (1801–1877) Nokuthula Ngwenyama (b. 1976) O Heiichiro Ohyama (b. 1947) David Oistrakh (1908–1974), violinist Raphaël Oleg (b. 1959), violinist Martin Outram P Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840), composer, violinist Johannes Palaschko (1877–1932), violinist, composer Úna Palliser, vocalist, violinist Ian Parrott (1916–2012), composer Harry Partch (1901–1974), composer Ödön Pártos (1907–1977), composer Joseph de Pasquale (1919–2015) Bruno Pasquier (b. 1943) Pemi Paull (b. 1975) Pierre Pasquier (1902–1986) Clara Petrozzi (b. 1965), violinist, composer Allan Pettersson (1911–1980), composer Cynthia Phelps (b. 1961) Robert Pikler (1909–1984), violinist Ashan Pillai (b. 1969) Enrico Polo (1868–1953), violinist Jocelyn Pook (b. 1960), composer Diemut Poppen (b. 1960) Rita Porfiris (b. 1969) Ari Poutiainen (b. 1972) Lawrence Power (b. 1977) William Presser (1916–2004), composer, violinist Milton Preves (1909–2000) Joseph Primavera (1926–2006), conductor William Primrose (1904–1982)

Q Karl Traugott Queisser (1800–1846) R Julian Rachlin (b. 1974), violinist Mary Ramsey (b. 1963), violinist, singer, songwriter Wilhelm Ramsøe (1837–1895), composer, conductor, violinist Émile Pierre Ratez (1851–1934), composer Mary Ruth Ray (1956–2013) Adolf Rebner (1876–1967) Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936), composer Sophia Reuter (b. 1971), violinist Allard de Ridder (1887–1966), conductor, composer Frederick Riddle (1912–1995) Timothy Ridout (b. 1995) Joaquín Riquelme García (b. 1983) Karen Ritscher Hermann Ritter (1849–1926) Carol Rodland Jean Rogister (1879–1964), composer Hartmut Rohde (b. 1966) Alessandro Rolla (1757–1841), composer Antonio Rolla (1798–1837), violinist, composer Paul Rolland (1911–1978) Max Rostal (1905–1991), violinist Simon Rowland-Jones (b. 1950) Vincent Royer (b. 1961) Miklós Rózsa (1907–1995), composer Thomas Ryan (1827–1903) Maxim Rysanov (b. 1978) S Pauline Sachse (b. 1980) Luigi Sagrati (1921–2008) Philip Sainton (1891–1967), composer, conductor Matthias Sannemüller (b. 1951) Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio (b. 1960), violinist Guido Santórsola (1904–1994), composer Hermann Scherchen (1891–1966), conductor Peter Schidlof (1922–1987) Ervin Schiffer (1932–2014) Hanning Schröder (1896–1987), composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828), composer Joseph Schubert (1754–1837), composer, violinist Rudolf Schwarz (1905–1994), conductor Albert Seitz (1872–1937), composer Konstantin Sellheim (b. 1978) Tibor Serly (1901–1978), composer Jonathan Sheffer (b. 1953), composer, conductor William Shield (1748–1829) Bernard Shore (1896–1985) Gilbert Shufflebotham (1907–1978), violinist Oscar Shumsky (1917–2000), violinist, conductor Paul Silverthorne (b. 1951) Robert Siohan (1894–1985), composer, conductor Nadia Sirota Hans Sitt (1850–1922) Scott Slapin (b. 1974), composer Kay Slocum Peter Slowik (b. 1957) Anton Stamitz (1750–c.1800), composer Carl Stamitz (1745–1801), composer Johann Stamitz (1717–1757), composer Helen Camille Stanley (b.1930), composer Jean Stewart (1914–2002) Scott St. John (b. 1969) Simon Streatfeild (1929–2019), conductor Jennifer Stumm Josef Suk (1929–2011), violinist Jean Sulem (b. 1959) Louis Svećenski (1862–1926) Gusztáv Szerémi (1877–1952), composer Lionel Tertis T Robert Talbot (1893–1954), conductor, composer, violinist Václav Talich (1883–1961), conductor, violinist Antoine Tamestit (b. 1979) Will Taylor (b. 1968) Jan Tausinger (1921–1980), composer, conductor Arve Tellefsen, (b. 1936), violinist Yuri Temirkanov (b. 1938), conductor Mela Tenenbaum, violinist Lionel Tertis (1876–1975) Xaver Paul Thoma (b. 1953), composer Marcus Thompson (b. 1946) Katia Tiutiunnik (b. 1967), composer Lars Anders Tomter (b. 1959) Giuseppe Torelli (1658–1709), pedagogue, composer Sabine Toutain (b. 1966) Jacqueline Townshend (1912–1983), pianist, violinist Walter Trampler (1915–1997) Michael Tree (1934–2018) Anahit Tsitsikian (1926–1999), violinist, musicologist Karen Tuttle (1920–2010) U Åke Uddén (1903–1987), composer, conductor Alfred Uhl (1909–1992) Chrétien Urhan (1790–1845) V Nancy Van de Vate (1930–2023), composer, pianist Léon van Hout (1864–1945) Roland Vamos (b. 1930) Emanuel Vardi (1915–2011) Maxim Vengerov (b. 1974), violinist Robert Vernon (b. 1949) Maurice Vieux (1884–1951) Johann Georg Hermann Voigt (1769–1811), composer Ladislav Vycpálek (1882–1969), composer, violinist W Louis van Waefelghem (1840–1908) Ernst Wallfisch (1920–1979) Geraldine Walther (b. 1950) Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739–1813) Harry Waldo Warner (1874–1945), composer Melia Watras John Webb (b. 1969), composer Hieronymus Weickmann (1825–1895) Justus Weinreich (1858–1927), composer Franz Weiss (1778–1830) Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1880), violinist Emanuel Wirth (1842–1923), violinist Lena Wood (1899–1982) Mark Wood X Hong-Mei Xiao (b. 1963) Pierre-Henri Xuereb (b. 1959) Y Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931), violinist Z Bernard Zaslav (1926–2016) Wen Xiao Zheng (b. 1981) Grigori Zhislin (1945–2017), violinist Lev Zhurbin (b. 1978), composer Tabea Zimmermann (b. 1966) Fidelis Zitterbart (1845–1915), composer Đuro Živković (b. 1975), composer, violinist León Zuckert (1904–1992), composer, violinist Pinchas Zukerman (b. 1948), violinist

See also

• Lists of musicians

References