The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000) Europe
Pires or Rubinstein? Cortot or Heifetz? It is difficult for inquiring minds to tackle a field as large and diverse as classical music, covering 10 centuries of history: there are uncountable numbers of classical music performers in the world. Making a selection of musicians, such as a “top 10” for example, is a difficult and subjective exercise. A musical selection is often the expression of personal preferences or artistic opinions, very interesting but also very different according to critics or musicologists, or simply influenced by the context: will an English performer/musician not be instinctively privileged by an English critic?
For example: in Canada, Marc-André Hamelin, a Quebec pianist and composer, is at least as popular as the German violinist Anne-Sofie Mutter, who is more internationally renowned.
Timeline of classical musicians, between 1950 and 2000+ in Europe
Whoever wants to discover classical music does not always have an experienced music lover, an expert or an educator at his or her side to support and guide him or her in this field. So : Pires (Portuguese pianist) or Rubinstein (Polish-American classical pianist (1887-1982)) ? Rattle (British conductor) or Pré (British cellist) ? However, the knowledge available about musicians is enormous. It was processed to select the 10, 25, 50... most popular performers around the world, for those living or having lived en Europe, between 1950 and 2000+. And this objectively, and for the first time (soclassiq exclusivity).
Performers rendered as a timeline to bring a little perspective:
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ComposersConductorsLyrical singersPerformersT 2024
This timeline is interactive to navigate through the ages or across continents (with ).
Why are all these composers included in this timeline?
Many composers have also been concert performers or conductors, although their fame is associated with their work today. On the other hand, some conductors such as Arturo Toscanini, Georg Solti ... or musicians such as Martha Argerich, Vladimir Horowitz, Glenn Gould ... have also composed. Itzhak Perlman, David Oïstrakh... very well known as concert performers, have also conducted orchestras. Others, such as Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, William Christie ..., are renowned as much for their careers as composers, conductors and performers.
Top 10 classical musicians in Europe for the years 1950-2000+
Who are these greatest performers, the most famous over the 1950-2000+ era in Europe? The carreer of these musician has marked the history of classical music. There are those you probably know, or at least by name and the others.
Here are these 10 performers, renowned artists from around the world:
The musicians and artists who also composed were removed from this ranking.
The selections of musicians (performers) proposed by soclassiq are based exclusively on algorithms. The same applies to the composers, their works, the lyrical singers, les orchestras, the conductors and the venues : opera houses, concert halls or festivals.
What about the others? 25, 50 or more?
Summarizing to 10 musician names such a wide and diverse field may seem extreme or too simplistic for those who know classical music well, for those who can easily name 50 or more classical music performers. Oistrakh, Barenboim, Haskil, Scotto, Lisitsa, Mutter, Muti...
At this time, soclassiq has listed more than 13000 performers. So here is a selection of some performers for the years 1950-2000+, in Europe, widely recognized around the world:
Note:
- This selection may include highly reputed artists and musicians who have occasionally devoted themselves to classical music and not exclusively.
- It may also include performers who have been or are composers, some more renowned for the work they have left than for their careers as musicians.
Claudio Abbado The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1933-2014 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Salvatore Accardo The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 82 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Theodor W. Adorno The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1903-1969 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Géza Anda The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1921-1976 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Leif Ove Andsnes The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 54 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Ernest Ansermet The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1883-1969 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Malcolm Arnold The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1921-2006 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Vladimir Ashkenazy The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 86 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Paul Badura-Skoda The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1927-2019 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
John Barbirolli The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1899-1970 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Daniel Barenboim The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 81 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
John Barry The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1933-2011 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Rudolf Barshai The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1924-2010 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Yury Bashmet The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 71 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Lena Belkina The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 36 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1920-1995 (20th century)
Performer
Luciano Berio The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1925-2003 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
İdil Biret The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 82 (20th century)
Performer
Rafał Blechacz The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 38 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Andrea Bocelli The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 65 (20th century)
Composer, Lyrical singer & Performer
Victor Borge The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1909-2000 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Nadia Boulanger The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1887-1979 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Pierre Boulez The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1925-2016 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Julian Bream The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1933-2020 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Goran Bregović The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 74 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Alfred Brendel The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 93 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Sarah Brightman The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 63 (20th century)
Composer, Lyrical singer & Performer
Benjamin Britten The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1913-1976 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Khatia Buniatishvili The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 36 (20th century)
Performer
Maria Callas The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1923-1977 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Pau Casals The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1876-1973 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Boris Christoff The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1914-1993 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Francesco Cilea The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1866-1950 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Rebecca Clarke The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1886-1979 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Alfred Cortot The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1877-1962 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
György Cziffra The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1921-1994 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Luigi Dallapiccola The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1904-1975 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Peter Maxwell Davies The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1934-2016 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Leonardo de De Lorenzo The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1875-1962 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Ernő von Dohnányi The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1877-1960 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Zara Dolukhanova The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1918-2007 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Marcel Dupré The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1886-1971 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Ludovico Einaudi The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 68 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
George Enescu The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1881-1955 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Malena Ernman The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 53 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Annie Fischer The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1914-1995 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Julia Fischer The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 40 (20th century)
Performer
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1925-2012 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor, Lyrical singer & Performer
Nelson Freire The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1944-2021 (20th century)
Performer
Wilhelm Furtwängler The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1886-1954 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
James Galway The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 84 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Gara Garayev The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1918-1982 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
John Eliot Gardiner The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 80 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Aida Garifullina The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 36 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Angela Gheorghiu The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 58 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Emil Gilels The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1916-1985 (20th century)
Performer
Ivry Gitlis The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1922-2020 (20th century)
Performer
Reinhold Glière The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1874-1956 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Sofiä Ğobäydullinä The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 92 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Henryk Górecki The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1933-2010 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Edita Gruberová The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1946-2021 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Ida Haendel The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1928-2020 (20th century)
Performer
Bernard Haitink The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1929-2021 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Nikolaus Harnoncourt The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1929-2016 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Clara Haskil The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1895-1960 (20th century)
Performer
Jascha Heifetz The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1901-1987 (20th century)
Performer
Paul Hindemith The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1895-1963 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Arthur Honegger The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1892-1955 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Vladimir Horowitz The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1903-1989 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Jacques Ibert The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1890-1962 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Janine Jansen The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 46 (20th century)
Performer
Mariss Jansons The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1943-2019 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Philippe Jaroussky The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 46 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Paavo Järvi The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 61 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Dmitri Kabalevsky The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1904-1986 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Nikolai Kapustin The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1937-2020 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Jonas Kaufmann The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 54 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Rudolf Kempe The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1910-1976 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Nigel Kennedy The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 67 (20th century)
Performer
Aram Khachaturian The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1903-1978 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Wojciech Kilar The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1932-2013 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Evgeny Kissin The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 52 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Zoltán Kodály The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1882-1967 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Leonid Kogan The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1924-1982 (20th century)
Performer
Erich Wolfgang Korngold The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1897-1957 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Jason Kouchak The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 55 (20th century)
Composer, Lyrical singer & Performer
Serge Koussevitzky The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1874-1951 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Fritz Kreisler The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1875-1962 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Gidon Kremer The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 77 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Solomea Krushelnytska The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1872-1952 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Rafael Kubelík The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1914-1996 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
György Kurtág The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 98 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Wanda Landowska The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1879-1959 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Alicia de Larrocha The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1923-2009 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Michel Legrand The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1932-2019 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor, Lyrical singer & Performer
Gustav Leonhardt The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1928-2012 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Borys Liatoshynsky The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1895-1968 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
György Ligeti The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1923-2006 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Dinu Lipatti The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1917-1950 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Valentina Lisitsa The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 54 (20th century)
Performer
Andrew Lloyd Webber The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 76 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Victoria de los Ángeles The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1923-2005 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Paco de Lucía The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1947-2014 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Christa Ludwig The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1928-2021 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Radu Lupu The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1945-2022 (20th century)
Performer
Witold Lutosławski The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1913-1994 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Yo-Yo Ma The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 68 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Peter Machajdík The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 62 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Alma Mahler The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1879-1964 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Mischa Maisky The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 76 (20th century)
Performer
Clint Mansell The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 61 (20th century)
Composer, Lyrical singer & Performer
Neville Marriner The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1924-2016 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Bohuslav Martinů The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1890-1959 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Nikolai Medtner The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1879-1951 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Yehudi Menuhin The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1916-1999 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Olivier Messiaen The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1908-1992 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Darius Milhaud The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1892-1974 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Nathan Milstein The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1902-1992 (20th century)
Performer
Dimitri Mitropoulos The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1896-1960 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Ennio Morricone The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1928-2020 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Yevgeny Mravinsky The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1903-1988 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Maksim Mrvica The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 48 (20th century)
Performer
Riccardo Muti The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 83 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Anne-Sophie Mutter The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 60 (20th century)
Performer
Nikolai Myaskovsky The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1881-1950 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Andris Nelsons The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 45 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Heinrich Neuhaus The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1888-1964 (20th century)
Performer
Luigi Nono The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1924-1990 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Elena Obraztsova The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1939-2015 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
David Oistrakh The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1908-1974 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Carl Orff The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1895-1982 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Eugene Ormandy The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1899-1985 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Andrzej Panufnik The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1914-1991 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Arvo Pärt The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 88 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Krzysztof Penderecki The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1933-2020 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Gregor Piatigorsky The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1903-1976 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Maria João Pires The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 79 (20th century)
Performer
Mikhail Pletnev The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 66 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Ivo Pogorelić The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 65 (20th century)
Performer
Maurizio Pollini The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 82 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Francis Poulenc The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1899-1963 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
MasterpiecesComplete works
John Powell The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 60 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Jacqueline du Pré The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1945-1987 (20th century)
Performer
Zbigniew Preisner The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 68 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
André Previn The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1929-2019 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Sergei Prokofiev The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1891-1953 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Jean-Pierre Rampal The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1922-2000 (20th century)
Performer
Simon Rattle The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 69 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Karl Richter The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1926-1981 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Sviatoslav Richter The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1915-1997 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
André Rieu The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 74 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Clara Rockmore The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1911-1998 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Joaquín Rodrigo The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1901-1999 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Mstislav Rostropovich The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1927-2007 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Nino Rota The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1911-1979 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Gennady Rozhdestvensky The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1931-2018 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Miklós Rózsa The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1907-1995 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Arthur Rubinstein The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1887-1982 (20th century)
Performer
Jordi Savall The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 82 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Wolfgang Sawallisch The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1923-2013 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
András Schiff The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 70 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Artur Schnabel The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1882-1951 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Alfred Schnittke The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1934-1998 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Arnold Schoenberg The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1874-1951 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Klaus Schulze The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1947-2022 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1915-2006 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Renata Scotto The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1933-2023 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Andrés Segovia Torres The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1893-1992c (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Rudolf Serkin The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1903-1991 (20th century)
Performer
Rodion Shchedrin The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 91 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Dmitri Shostakovich The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1906-1975 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Jean Sibelius The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1865-1957 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Giuseppe Sinopoli The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1946-2001 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Georg Solti The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1912-1997 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Karlheinz Stockhausen The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1928-2007 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Leopold Stokowski The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1882-1977 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Igor Stravinsky The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1882-1971 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Yevgeny Svetlanov The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1928-2002 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Georgy Sviridov The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1915-1998 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Valentyn Sylvestrov The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 86 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
George Szell The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1897-1970 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Henryk Szeryng The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1918-1988 (20th century)
Performer
Władysław Szpilman The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1911-2000 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Yuri Temirkanov The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1938-2023 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Yann Tiersen The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 53 (20th century)
Composer, Lyrical singer & Performer
Arturo Toscanini The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1867-1957 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Vanessa Vanessa-Mae The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 45 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Pēteris Vasks The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 77 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Ralph Vaughan Williams The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1872-1958 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Maxim Vengerov The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 49 (20th century)
Conductor & Performer
Galina Vishnevskaya The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1926-2012 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Performer
Pancho Vladigerov The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1899-1978 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Bruno Walter The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1876-1962 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
William Walton The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1902-1983 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Kurt Weill The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1900-1950 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
John Williams The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 82 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Iannis Xenakis The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1922-2001 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
MasterpiecesComplete works
Narciso Yepes The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
1927-1997 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
Krystian Zimerman The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 67 (20th century)
Composer, Conductor & Performer
Hans Zimmer The great 20th-century performers (1950-2000)
age 66 (20th century)
Composer & Performer
See also...
Timelines : Performers
- The great classical music performers
- Europe * North America * South America * Asia * Oceania * Africa
- The great 20th-century performers [II.] (1950 - 2000)
- Europe * North America * South America * Asia * Oceania * Africa
- The great 20th-century performers [I.] (1900 - 1950)
- Europe * North America * South America * Asia * Oceania * Africa
- The great 19th-century performers (1850 - 1900)
Indexes
- All performers : by instrument * by country
- by alphabetical order : A * B * C * D * E * F * G * H * I * J * K * L * M * N * O * P * Q * R * S * T * U * V * W * X * Y * Z
- Young artists (Performers)
Other timelines
- Composers : 10 centuries of classical music
- The great classical music conductors
- The great lyrical singers
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