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classical composer

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Niccolò Paganini		Italian violinist and composer (1782–1840)	Republic of Genoa	1782-10-27	1840-05-27	Genoa	Nice	Q66075
Niels Gade		Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher (1817–1890)	Kingdom of Denmark	1817-02-22	1890-12-21	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	Q154632
Antonín Dvořák		Czech composer (1841–1904)	Kingdom of Bohemia Cisleithania	1841-09-08	1904-05-01	Nelahozeves	New Town	Q7298
Paul Hindemith		German composer (1895–1963)	Germany West Germany United States	1895-11-16	1963-12-28	Hanau	Frankfurt	Q57244

composer

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Enríquez de Valderrábano		Spanish composer	Spain	1500	1557	Peñaranda de Duero	Spain	Q1344198
Arcangelo Corelli		Italian violinist and composer (1653–1713)	Papal States	1653-02-17	1713-01-08	Fusignano	Rome	Q164475
Giuseppe Torelli		Italian violist, violinist, teacher and composer (1658–1709)	Republic of Venice	1658-04-22	1709-02-08	Verona	Bologna	Q207532
Johann Adam		German composer and violist	Holy Roman Empire Electorate of Saxony	1704-09-14 1705	1779-11-13	Dresden	Dresden	Q25344445
Pietro Nardini		Italian composer and violinist	Grand Duchy of Tuscany	1722-04-12	1793-05-07	Livorno	Florence	Q727374
Frantisek Kotzwara		Czech composer and violist		1740s 1750	1791-09-02	Prague	London	Q1355499
Carl Stamitz		German composer of partial Czech ancestry	Germany	1745-05-07	1801-11-09	Mannheim	Jena	Q157898
Josef Fiala		Czech oboist, composer and violoncellist (1748-1816)	Austrian Empire	1748-03-02	1816-07-31	Lochovice	Donaueschingen	Q742748
Ferdinand Kauer		Czech composer		1751-01-18	1831-04-13	Dyjákovičky	Vienna	Q347096
Joseph Schubert		German composer	Austrian Empire	1754-12-20 1757	1837-07-28	Varnsdorf	Dresden	Q77909
Federigo Fiorillo		Italian and French musician and composer	Holy Roman Empire	1755-05	1823	Brunswick	London Paris	Q324652
Alessandro Rolla		Italian viola and violin virtuoso, composer, conductor and teacher		1757-04-22	1841-09-15	Pavia	Milan	Q2143613
Charles Henry Wilton		British musician	Kingdom of Great Britain United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1761	1832			Q16859226
Gottfried Wilhelm Fink		German composer and musicologist	Germany	1783-03-07	1846-08-27	Sulza	Leipzig	Q215325
Johan Fredrik Berwald		Swedish musician	Sweden	1787-12-04	1861-08-26	Parish of St Gertrud of Germany	Hedvig Eleonora parish	Q1550949
Franz Berwald		Swedish composer	Sweden	1796-07-23	1868-04-03	Stockholm	Parish of St Gertrud of Germany	Q217044
Carl Gottlieb Reissiger		German musician	Kingdom of Saxony	1798-01-31	1859-11-07	Bad Belzig	Dresden	Q213894
Antonio Rolla		Italian composer (1798–1837)		1798-04-18	1837-05-19 1837-03-19	Parma	Dresden	Q604683
Casimir Ney		French musician	France	1801-02-24	1877-02-03	former 6th arrondissement of Paris	Arras	Q5048804
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst		Czech violinist, composer and violist (1814-1865)	Austrian Empire	1812-06-08	1865-10-08	Brno	Nice	Q528748
Josef Wielhorski		Polish musician and composer of Romantic era		1816 1817	1892		Sanremo	Q1666932
Pavel Křížkovský		Czech music educator, composer, pianist, organist and roman catholic priest (1820–1885)	Austrian Empire Austria–Hungary	1820-01-09	1885-05-08	Holasovice	Brno	Q1355527
Engelbert Röntgen		German violinist and music educator (1829-1897)	German Reich	1829-09-30	1897-12-12	Deventer	Leipzig	Q1341962
Karl Goldmark		Hungarian-born Viennese composer (1830–1915)	Hungary	1830-05-18	1915-01-02	Keszthely	Vienna	Q239214
Joseph Joachim		Hungarian violinist, composer, and teacher (1831–1907)	Hungary	1831-06-28	1907-08-15	Kittsee	Berlin	Q159976
Thorvald Lammers		Operatic and concert singer (1841–1922)	Norway	1841-01-15	1922-02-08	Modum Municipality	Aker	Q166613
Guido Papini		Italian composer and violinist	Kingdom of Italy	1847-08-01	1912-10-03	Camaiore	London	Q15407454
Benjamin Godard		French violinist and composer (1849–1895)	France	1849-08-18	1895-01-10	Paris	Cannes	Q817524
Hermann Ritter		German composer (1849-1926)	Germany	1849-09-16	1926-01-25	Wismar	Würzburg	Q1612486
Hans Sitt		Czech violinist, music educator and composer (1850–1922)	Cisleithania	1850-09-21	1922-03-10	Prague	Leipzig	Q566457
Justus Weinreich		German composer and musician	German Reich	1858-05-24	1927-01-19	Kassel	Baden-Baden	Q87758388
Ottokar Nováček		Czech composer and violist (1866-1900)	Hungary	1866-05-13	1900-02-03	Bela Crkva	New York City	Q670142
Ferdinand Küchler		German musician (1867–1937)	German Reich	1867-07-14	1937-10-24	Giessen	Leipzig	Q73306
Frederick Stock		German composer (1872–1942)	German Reich	1872-11-11	1942-10-20	Jülich	Chicago	Q481438
Armande de Polignac		composer (1876-1962)	France	1876-01-08	1962-04-29	16th arrondissement of Paris	Neauphle-le-Vieux	Q953220
Gusztáv Szerémi		Hungarian musician (1877-1952)	Hungary	1877-05-09	1952-08-16	Budapest	Budapest	Q15998311
Ottorino Respighi		Italian composer, musicologist and conductor	Kingdom of Italy	1879-07-09	1936-04-18	Bologna	Rome	Q243837
Frank Bridge		English composer and violist (1879–1941)	United Kingdom	1879-02-26	1941-01-10	Brighton	Eastbourne	Q366636
Jean Rogister		Belgian musician (1879-1964)	Belgium	1879-10-25	1964-03-20	Liège	Liège	Q598693
Ladislav Vycpálek		Czech composer (1882–1969)	Czechoslovakia	1882-02-23 1882-01-23	1969-01-09	Vršovice	Prague	Q1800020
Vladimir Bakaleinikov		American conductor (1885–1953)	United States Soviet Union	1885-10-03	1953-11-05 1956-11-05	Moscow	Pittsburgh	Q140591
Rebecca Clarke		English composer and violist (1886–1979)	United Kingdom	1886-08-27	1979-10-13	Harrow	New York City	Q259670
Antal Molnár		Hungarian composer, violist, music educator and aesthetics (1890–1983)	Hungary	1890-01-07	1983-12-07	Budapest	Budapest	Q165729
Ottmar Gerster		German composer and conductor (1897–1969)	Germany East Germany	1897-06-29	1969-08-31	Braunfels	Borsdorf	Q896918
Quincy Porter		American composer (1897–1966)	United States	1897-02-07	1966-11-12	New Haven	Bethany	Q2033174
Carlton Cooley		American classical violist	United States	1898-04-15	1981	Milford	Stockton-on-Tees	Q5042974
Lillian Fuchs		American musician (1901–1995)	United States	1901-11-18 1902-11-18	1995-10-05	New York City	Englewood	Q2223240
Ödön Pártos		Hungarian born Israeli composer (1907-1977)	Israel Hungary	1907-10-01	1977-07-06	Budapest	Tel Aviv Jaffa	Q294073
Allan Pettersson		Swedish composer and violist	Sweden	1911-09-19	1980-06-20	Västra Ryd	Stockholm	Q183359
Gyula Dávid		Hungarian musician (1913–1977)	Hungary	1913-05-06	1977-03-14	Budapest	Budapest	Q912645
František Domažlický		Czech violinist and composer (1913–1997)	Czech Republic	1913-05-13	1997-10-29	Prague	Prague	Q3497886
Dimitris Dragatakis		Greek classical composer, violist and teacher of mid and late 20th century (1914–2001)	Greece	1914-02-04	2001-12-18	Platanoussa	Athens	Q3560848
Ebbe Grims-land		Swedish musician (1915–2015)	Sweden	1915-06-11	2015-01-27	Malmö		Q361096
Vic Legley		Belgian composer (1915-1994)	Belgium	1915-06-18	1994-11-28	Hazebrouck	Ostend	Q729510
Arie Van de Moortel		Belgian musician	Belgium	1918-07-17	1976-05-01	Laeken	Brussels	Q4790346
Claude Loyola Allgén		Swedish composer	Sweden	1920-04-16	1990-09-18	Kolkata	Täby	Q5547039
Ingvar Lidholm		Swedish composer (1921-2017)	Sweden	1921-02-24	2017-10-17	Jönköping	Salem	Q629243
Peter Schidlof		Austrian musician (1922–1987)	Austria	1922-07-09	1987-08-15	Göllersdorf	Cumbria	Q7176803
Miroslav Miletić		Croatian composer and musician (1925–2018)	Croatia	1925-08-22	2018-01-03	Sisak	Zagreb	Q6874002
Paul Walter Fürst		Austrian composer (1926-2013)	Austria	1926-04-25	2013-02-28	Vienna	Vienna	Q1801820
Milan Křížek		Czech composer	Czech Republic	1926-03-09	2018-02-15	Lišov	České Budějovice	Q18698434
Hans-Christian Bartel		German composer (1932–2014)	Germany East Germany	1932-11-27	2014-12-27	Altenburg	Leipzig	Q1576768
John Kinsella		Irish composer	Ireland	1932-04-08	2021-11-09	Dublin	Dublin	Q11866752
Leroy Jenkins		American composer and violinist (1932–2007)	United States	1932-03-11	2007-02-24	Chicago	New York City	Q13036399
Dietmar Hallmann		German composer	Germany	1935-04-05		Wrocław		Q1223402
Johannes Fritsch		German musician (1941–2010)	Germany	1941-07-27	2010-04-29	Auerbach	Bonn	Q1563434
Volker David Kirchner		German musician (1942-2020)	Germany	1942-06-25	2020-02-04	Mainz	Wiesbaden	Q91691
Ig Henneman		Dutch composer	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1945-12-21		Haarlem		Q1295102
Michael Kugel		Russian musician	Soviet Union Russia Israel Belgium	1946-12-05		Kharkiv		Q3660955
Vladimir Mendelssohn		Romanian composer and violist (1949-2021)	Romania	1949-11-29	2021-08-13	Bucharest	The Hague	Q9094671
Simon Rowland-Jones		British musician	United Kingdom	1950				Q7519701
Bertil H. van Boer		American musicologist (born 1952)	United States	1952-10-02		Tallahassee		Q828266
Xaver Paul Thoma		German composer and music educator	Germany	1953-02-05		Haslach im Kinzigtal		Q1623961
Elaine Fine		American composer	United States	1959-04-30		Cleveland		Q1324803
Jocelyn Pook		Composer, pianist	United Kingdom	1960-02-14		Birmingham		Q445096
Kalle Moraeus		Swedish musician	Sweden	1963-07-15		Orsa församling		Q4348115
Marco Ambrosini		Italian composer (1964-)	Italy	1964		Forlì		Q346354
Vittorio Ghielmi		Italian composer, conductor	Italy	1968		Milan		Q1909451
Ralph Farris		American violist, violinist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor	United States	1970		Boston		Q7287481
Michał Jelonek		Polish musician and composer	Poland	1971-05-30		Kielce		Q2074072
Matthew Jones		British violist, violinist and composer	United Kingdom	1974		Swansea		Q6790752
Lev Zhurbin		Russian/American musician	United States Russia	1978-08-18		Moscow		Q195817
David Handler		American composer, violinist/violist and entrepreneur		1980-07-24				Q137969457
Catherine Lamb		American composer and violist	United States	1982		Olympia		Q94608974
Marina kifferstein		American violinist, composer, improviser, and educator		1989				Q104971672
Edward W. Hardy		American composer, musician and producer	United States	1992-01-12		Manhattan		Q51337607

conductor

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski		German musician (1822-1896)	Kingdom of Prussia German Reich	1822-06-17	1896-12-13	Gdańsk	Sondershausen	Q85072
Carl Riedel		German composer and conductor (1827-1888)	Kingdom of Prussia	1827-10-06	1888-06-03	Cronenberg	Leipzig	Q882883
Oskar Nedbal		Czech conductor, composer, and violist (1874–1940)	Czechoslovakia	1874-03-26	1930-12-24	Tábor	Zagreb	Q920997
Henri Casadesus		violist, viola d'amore player, composer, and music publisher (1879-1947)	France	1879-09-30	1947-05-31	19th arrondissement of Paris	Paris	Q1197441
Josef Pasternack		Polish conductor (1881–1940)	Poland	1881-07-07	1940-04-29	Częstochowa	Chicago	Q3184044
František Brož		(1896-1962) Czech conductor, music educator, composer and choirmaster	Czechoslovakia	1896-04-10	1962-07-21	Prague	Prague	Q5492493
Grigori Gamburg		Russian composer and conductor (1900–1967)	Russian Empire Soviet Union	1900-10-09	1967-10-28	Warsaw	Moscow	Q5609059
Franz Konwitschny		German conductor (1901-1962)	Germany	1901-08-14	1962-07-28	Fulnek	Belgrade	Q63454
Åke Uddén		Swedish musician	Sweden	1903-08-18	1987-04-28	Upplands-Bro Municipality	Maria Magdalena parish	Q6218623
Guido Santórsola		Brazilian-Uruguayan composer	Brazil	1904-11-18	1994-09-24 1994-09-25	Canosa di Puglia Italy	Montevideo	Q1553657
David Oistrakh		Soviet violinist (1908-1974)	Russian Empire Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Soviet Union	1908-09-17	1974-10-24	Odesa	Amsterdam	Q47120
Ernest van der Eyken		Belgian musician (1913-2010)	Belgium	1913-07-23	2010-02-06	Antwerp	Antwerp	Q322862
Carlo Maria Giulini		Italian conductor (1914–2005)	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1914-05-09	2005-06-14	Barletta	Brescia	Q430829
Emanuel Vardi		Israeli-American musician (1915-2011)	United States Ottoman Empire	1915-04-21	2011-01-29	Jerusalem		Q2008845
Paul Doktor		Austrian-American violist and conductor	Austria United States	1919-03-28 1917-03-28	1989-06-21	Vienna	New York City	Q1637797
Václav Neumann		Czech conductor, violinist and viola player (1920-1995)	Czech Republic	1920-09-29	1995-09-02	Prague	Vienna	Q450793
Rudolf Barshai		Russian conductor (1924–2010)	Russia	1924-09-28	2010-11-02	Labinsk	Basel	Q362806
Saulius Sondeckis		Lithuanian violinist, conductor, orchestra leader and professor	Lithuania Soviet Union	1928-10-11	2016-02-03	Šiauliai	Vilnius	Q2983565
Josef Suk		Czech violinist, violist and conductor (1929–2011)	Czech Republic Czechoslovakia	1929-08-08	2011-07-06 2011-07-07	Prague	Prague	Q707845
Simon Streatfeild		British-Canadian violist, conductor and teacher (1929-2019)	United Kingdom	1929-10-05	2019-12-07	Windsor		Q4542823
Bruno Giuranna		Italian musician	Italy	1933-04-06		Milan		Q1427050
Jorge Mester		American conductor	Mexico	1935-04-10		Mexico City		Q4291321
Simon Standage		English violinist and conductor	United Kingdom	1941-11-08		High Wycombe		Q323956
Jaime Laredo		Bolivian-American conductor and violinist	Bolivia	1941-06-07		Cochabamba		Q2520253
Leif Segerstam		Finnish conductor and composer (1944–2024)	Finland	1944-03-02	2024-10-09	Vaasa	Helsinki	Q381726
Sigiswald Kuijken		Belgian musician	Belgium	1944-02-16		Dilbeek		Q506771
Pinchas Zukerman		Israeli-American violinist, violist and conductor (born 1948)	Israel	1948-07-16		Tel Aviv		Q346204
Yury Bashmet		Russian conductor, violinist and violist (born 1953)	Soviet Union Russia	1953-01-24		Rostov-on-Don		Q156546
Theodore Kuchar		Ukrainian American violist and conductor	United States	1963-05-30 1960		New York City		Q3523700
Florian Donderer		German classical violinist, conductor	Germany	1969		Berlin		Q104518387
Maxim Vengerov		Russian violinist, violist, and conductor	Germany Israel Soviet Union	1974-08-20		Novosibirsk Chelyabinsk		Q441388
Riccardo Minasi		Italian conductor	Italy	1978		Rome		Q2148768
Maxim Rysanov		Ukrainian violist	Ukraine Soviet Union United Kingdom	1978		Kramatorsk		Q4402042
Robert Ames		British conductor and violist	United Kingdom	1985-10-08		Kettering		Q24450165

music educator

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Hieronymus Weickmann		Russian musician (1825–1895)	Russian Empire	1825-02-26	1895-04-26	Nuremberg	Nuremberg	Q4105973
Louis Svećenski		Croatian American violinist	United States	1862-11-07	1926-06-18	Osijek	New York City	Q6688236
Théophile Laforge		French musician (1863–1918)	France	1863-03-06	1918-10-31	18th arrondissement of Paris	Paris	Q2430607
Louis Octave Bailly		Canadian music educator, violinist and violist (1882–1974)	Canada France	1882-06-13	1974-11-21	Valenciennes	Cowansville	Q1871508
Ladislav Černý		Czech musician	Czechoslovakia Austria–Hungary	1891-04-13 1891-04-12	1975-07-13	Plzeň	Dobříš	Q6469727
Vadim Borisovsky		Russian musician (1900–1972)	Soviet Union	1900-01-07	1972-08-02	Moscow	Moscow	Q2449037
Eugene Lehner		Hungarian musician	Hungary	1906-07-05	1997-09-13	Bratislava	Boston	Q5407437
Paul Rolland		Hungarian-born American violist and violin pedagogue (1911-1978)	United States	1911-11-11	1978-11-09	Budapest	Urbana	Q163933
Raphael Hillyer		American musician (1914-2010)	United States	1914-04-10	2010-12-27	Ithaca	Boston	Q7293970
Walter Trampler		German-American viola player (1915–1997)	United States	1915-08-25	1997-09-27	Munich	Nova Scotia	Q1979818
Cecil Aronowitz		British classical violist (1916-1978)	United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1916-03-04	1978-09-07	Qonce	Ipswich	Q5055931
Pál Lukács		violist, violinist, music pedagogue (1919–1981)	Hungary	1919-04-27	1981-05-22	Budapest	Budapest	Q766449
Karen Tuttle		American violist and viola teacher (1920-2010)	United States	1920-03-28	2010-12-16	Lewiston	Philadelphia	Q3193131
Serge Collot		French musician (1923–2015)	France	1923-12-27	2015-08-10	12th arrondissement of Paris	Clermont-Ferrand	Q3479254
Günter Bust		German music pedagogue and composer (1930-2005)	East Germany	1930-07-12	2005-05-27	Ottersleben	Schönebeck	Q86261911
Michael Tree		American musician	United States	1934-02-19	2018-03-31	Newark	Manhattan	Q6834950
Rivka Golani		Israeli viola player	Israel	1946-03-22		Tel Aviv Jaffa		Q1993134
Mikhail Bezverkhny		Russian musician	Soviet Union Belgium	1947-07-27		Saint Petersburg		Q2637645
Robert Vernon		Canadian musician	United States	1949-05-05				Q7350602
Paul Silverthorne		violist	United Kingdom	1951		Cheshire		Q7153612
Kim Kashkashian		American violist	United States	1952-08-31		Detroit		Q284694
Lawrence Dutton		American music educator and violist	United States	1954-05-09		New York City		Q12408639
Diemut Poppen		German violist and professor	Germany	1960		Münster		Q5274935
Paul Neubauer		American violist and music pedagogue	United States	1962-10-17		Los Angeles		Q3371904
Tabea Zimmermann		German violist	Germany	1966-10-08		Lahr/Schwarzwald		Q269838
Nokuthula Ngwenyama		American classical composer and violist	United States	1976-06-16		Los Angeles		Q513619

musician

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
David Eccles Nichols		violist (1873–1962)	United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1873	1962			Q29876241
Alix Young Maruchess		American violist	United Kingdom	1889-03-28	1963-07-19			Q135275297
Egon Kenton		Hungarian-American violist and musicologist	Hungary United States	1891-05-22	1987-12-03	Salonta	Paris	Q12346836
Pierre Pasquier		French violist (1902–1986)	France	1902-09-14	1986-03-05	Tours	Neuilly-sur-Seine	Q3386526
William Primrose		Scottish violist (1904-1982)	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1904-08-23	1982-05-01	Glasgow	Provo	Q541922
Max Rostal		British-Austrian violinist	United Kingdom	1905-08-07	1991-08-06	Cieszyn	Bern	Q215652
Frederick Riddle		British musician	United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1912-04-20	1995-02-05	Liverpool	Newport	Q4394459
Luigi Sagrati		Italian musician (1921–2008)	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1921-11-10	2008-03-20	Rome	Rome	Q3840126
Fyodor Druzhinin		Russian composer and musician (1932–2007)	Soviet Union Russia	1932-04-06	2007-07-01	Moscow	Moscow	Q93835
Gérard Caussé		French violist	France	1948-06-26		Toulouse		Q2606425
Lars Anders Tomter		Norwegian viola player	Norway	1959-11-30		Furnes		Q164184
Cathy Basrak		American violist	United States	1977				Q5053385
Ramzi Aburedwan		musician	Palestine France	1979		Bethlehem		Q19667554
Ellen Nisbeth		Swedish violist	Sweden	1987-06-16		Uppsala Cathedral Assembly		Q15624500
Nathan Schram		American composer and violist						Q117290954

musicologist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Sydney Beck		American musician and musicologist	United States	1906-09-02	2001-04-07	New York City	Brattleboro	Q7508953
Franz Beyer		German musicologist and viola player	Germany	1922-02-26	2018-06-29	Weingarten	Munich	Q70451
Alexandre Dratwicki		French musicologist, clarinetist and violist	France	1977-01-31		Thionville		Q2833615

organist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Chrétien Urhan		French violinist, violist, organist and composer (1790–1845)	France	1790-02-16	1845-11-02	Monschau	Belleville	Q567065
Ernst Münch		French musician (1859-1928)	France	1859-12-31	1928-04-01	Niederbronn-les-Bains	Strasbourg	Q530103

pedagogue

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Jiří Herold		Czech violin maker, music educator and violist (1875–1934)	Czechoslovakia	1875-04-16	1934-11-13	Rakovník	Vinohrady	Q4137479
Bohuslav Matoušek		Czech violinist, music educator, violist and university educator	Czech Republic Czechoslovakia	1949-09-26		Havlíčkův Brod		Q3504532

singer

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Johann Aegidius Bach		German organist, father of Johann Bernhard Bach	Germany	1645-02-09	1716-11-22	Erfurt	Erfurt	Q681465
Seth Lakeman		English folk singer	United Kingdom	1977-03-26		Buckland Monachorum		Q1131249
Barbora Řeháčková		Czech jazz singer	Czech Republic	1977-02-15 1979		Jičín		Q95078830

teacher

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Roger Best		musical artist		1936-09-28	2013-10-08	Liverpool		Q110213032
Sebastian Ruth		American violinist, violist, and music educator	United States					Q22096058

viol player

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Alison Crum		Viola da gamba player	United Kingdom	1949-11-23		United Kingdom		Q4727054
Erin Headley		British musician	United Kingdom	20th century 1948		Texas		Q3056620

viola d'amore player

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Bernard Zaslav		American viola soloist and chamber musician	United States	1926-04-07	2016-12-28	Brooklyn		Q19594755
Marco Fusi		Italian violinist and violist						Q84819313

violinist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Luigi de Baillou		Italian violinist and composer		1736-07-27 1736-04-27	1804-03-14	Milan	Milan	Q52717740
Franz Weiss		Austrian violist (1778-1830)	Austrian Empire	1778-01-18	1830-01-25	Kłodzko	Vienna	Q19017702
Charles Philippe Lafont		French violinist and composer (1781–1839)	France	1781-12-01	1839-08-23	Paris	Hiis	Q517502
Fanny Claus		French violinist	France	1846-07-25	1877-04	Besançon	Paris	Q15225248
Karel Ondříček		Czech violinist (1863–1943)	Czechoslovakia	1865-01-01 1863-01-01	1943-03-30	Prague	Boston	Q4334843
Lionel Tertis		British musician (1876–1975)	United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1876-12-29	1975-02-22	West Hartlepool	London	Q718637
Stephen Vost Janssen		Australian violinist and violist		1879-11-25	1945	Newcastle upon Tyne	Sydney	Q29942707
Leo Zeitlin		Russian violist , cellist and composer (1884-1930)	Russian Empire Soviet Union	1884-12-07	1930-07-08	Pinsk	New York City	Q6524341
Sami Shawa		Syrian musician	Ottoman Empire French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon Syrian Republic under French mandate First Syrian Republic Second Syrian Republic United Arab Republic Syria	1887	1965-12-23	Aleppo	Damascus	Q3470790
Valentin Härtl		German violinist (1894–1966)	Germany	1894-06-20	1966-08-13	Aschaffenburg	Munich	Q2508333
Boris Kroyt		Ukrainian violinist and viola player (1897–1969)	No/unknown value	1897-06-23	1969-11-15 1969-11-13	Odesa	New York City	Q4241539
Dino Asciolla		Italian musician (1920–1994)	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1920-06-06	1994-09-09	Rome	Siena	Q3707885
Eduard Melkus		Austrian violinist and conductor	Austria	1928-09-01		Baden		Q84897
Karl Suske		German violinist and concertmaster	Germany	1934-03-15		Liberec		Q112036
Luigi Alberto Bianchi		Italian violinist and violist (1945–2018)	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1945-01-01	2018-01-03	Rimini	Rome	Q4101360
James Buswell		American violinist and conductor	United States	1946-12-04	2021-09-28	Fort Wayne	Boston	Q108760567
Soon-Mi Chung		Norwegian musician	Norway	1952-02-22		Seoul		Q12002030
Nigel Kennedy		British-born violinist and violist (born 1956)	United Kingdom	1956-12-28		Brighton		Q159978
Krysia Osostowicz		Violin player and teacher		1960				Q36945641
Henning Kraggerud		Norwegian musician	Norway	1973-06-23		Oslo		Q5715017
Julian Rachlin		Austrian musician	Austria	1974-12-08		Vilnius		Q78796
Jessica Pavone		American musician	United States	1976-12-17				Q16215679
Katalin Kokas		Hungarian violinist and violist (born 1978)	Hungary	1978-11-22		Pécs		Q1115090
Rob Moose		American musician	United States	1982-07-17				Q94694511
Sergey Malov		Russian violinist and violist	Russia	1983-06-18		Saint Petersburg		Q4278094
Shunsuke Sato		Japanese musician	Japan	1984-06-10		Tokyo		Q11383657
Mela Tenenbaum		Ukrainan violinist and violist	United States		2023-10-15	Ukraine		Q18098624
Irina Morozova		Australian violinist and chamber musician	Australia					Q131452387

violist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Aleksander Mirecki		Polish musician (1809-1882)	Poland Russian Empire	1809-04-13	1882-11-18	Chrzanów	Madrid	Q4714973
Johann Král		viola player	Austria–Hungary	1823-05-16	1912-06-10	Kolinec	Vienna	Q94943155
William Henry Hann		English violist		1831	1920			Q135451464
Natalie Bauer-Lechner		Austrian musician (1858–1921)	Austria	1858-05-09	1921-06-08	Penzing	Vienna	Q112641
James Lockyer		musical artist		1883	1962			Q110820929
Karl Reitz		German violist (1887-1943)		1887-01-31	1943-02-10	Cologne	Berlin	Q28334960
Samuel Lifschey		American viola player	United States	1889-05-06	1961-09-14	Manhattan	Philadelphia	Q26212418
Georges Frey		musical artist (1890-1975)	France	1890-08-02	1975-10-07	Mulhouse	Mulhouse	Q45025483
Raymond Jeremy		musical artist		1890-11-22	1969-03-12			Q112304320
Miloslav Sádlo		musical artist		1897-06-06	1961-10-30	Prague	Prague	Q106416335
Lena Wood		musical artist		1899	1982			Q111193380
Stella P. Roberts		American musician	United States	1899-04-26	1988-08-29			Q136999069
Isabel Charisius		musical artist		20th century				Q22277316
Hope Hambourg		musical artist		1902-10-05	1989-09-28			Q110894304
Nannie Jamieson		British violist (1904-1990)		1904	1990			Q129699308
Harry Berly		musical artist		1905-12	1937-03-25		Oval tube station	Q111517320
Sydney Errington		British violist (1905 - 1980)		1905-09-03	1980-10-23			Q137970853
Virginia Majewski				1907	1995			Q105023590
Gilbert Shufflebotham		musical artist		1907-05-06	1978-03-05			Q112338425
Beryl Scawen Blunt		English violist (1911–1987)		1911-11-27	1987-09-23			Q133883924
Harry Danks		(1912-2001)		1912	2001			Q41569121
Jacqueline Townshend		musical artist		1912	1983			Q111460959
Max Gilbert		British violist (1912 - 1993)		1912	1993-09-28			Q139001846
Paul Cropper		British vioist	United Kingdom	1913	2006			Q110450551
Jean Stewart		English viola player (1914-2002)		1914-02-17	2002-12-28			Q61983282
David Schwartz		American musician	United States	1916-06-18	2013-06-05	Detroit		Q5239574
Olga Bloom		American violinist and violist (1919-2011)	United States	1919-04-02	2011-11-24	Boston	Manhattan	Q30323931
Joseph De Pasquale		American musician	United States	1919-10-14	2015-06-22	Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Q75329855
Ernst Wallfisch		American musician	United States	1920-05-27	1979-05-08			Q5395180
Roger Delage		French musicologist and conductor	France	1922-12-04	2001-02-08	Vierzon	Strasbourg	Q55418134
Wayne Crouse		American musician	United States	1924-12-16	2000-05-19			Q7976156
Daniel Benyamini		Israeli musician	Israel	1925	1993	Tel Aviv		Q5216542
Henry Myerscough		British musician (1927–2007)	United Kingdom	1927	2007			Q5726196
Judith Davidoff		American viol player, cellist, and performer on the medieval bowed instruments	United States	1927-10-21	2021-12-19	Chelsea	Manhattan	Q63456839
Philipp Naegele		German musician (1928–2011)	Germany	1928-01-22	2011-01-31	Stuttgart	Northampton	Q7184686
Alfred Lipka		German violist	Czech Republic East Germany	1931	2010-07-12	Ústí nad Labem Střekov Castle	Berlin	Q30604817
Alan Iglitzin		American violist and Olympic Music Festival founder		1931-11-07	2025-09-15	Harlem	Bainbridge Island	Q95985812
Ervin Schiffer		Hungarian musician	Hungary	1932	2014-07	Balassagyarmat		Q5396059
David Dalton		American violist	United States	1934-01-18	2022-12-23	Springville		Q23994255
Hermann Voss		German violist and puppeteer		1934-07-09		Brünen		Q42763919
Amnon Weinstein		Israeli luthier	Israel	1939-07-21	2024-03-04	Tel Aviv	Tel Aviv	Q54860850
Donald McInnes		American violist	United States	1939-03-07	2024-10-23	San Francisco	Rancho Mirage	Q110316287
Nobuko Imai		Japanese violist and professor	Japan	1943-03-18		Tokyo		Q266245
Hamdi Benani		Algerian musician and singer (1943–2020)	Algeria France	1943-01-01	2020-09-21	Annaba	Annaba	Q3126373
Tasso Adamopoulos		French musician (1944–2021)	France	1944-06-02	2021-01-02	14th arrondissement of Paris	20th arrondissement of Paris	Q3515979
Liz Howard		Camogie player		1948	2026-05-21			Q6660185
Geraldine Walther		American classical violinist	United States	1950-07-22		Tampa, Florida		Q5549805
Neithard Resa		German altist		1950-09-01		Berlin		Q50807404
Jacques Borsarello		French classical violist	France	1951		Toulon		Q3158329
Roger Chase		British violinist	United Kingdom	1953				Q7357974
Romano Crivici		Australian musician	Australia	1953				Q17151088
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson		American musician		20th century		Topanga		Q19872836
Michel Michalakakos		French violinist	France	1954				Q3310348
Steven Ansell		American musician	United States	1954-02-05				Q7614450
Gábor Ormai		Hungarian violist and educator	Hungarian People's Republic	1954-09-01	1995-07-07			Q118464486
William Breeze		American musician; Frater Superior of Ordo Templi Orientis	United States	1955-08-12		Paris		Q8005883
Garth Knox		Irish musician	Ireland	1956-10-08		Dublin		Q5524355
Emilio Moreno		Spanish musician	Spain	1957		Madrid		Q5371907
Peter Slowik		American musician	United States	1957				Q7176985
Matthias Buchholz		German musician	Germany	1957-12-14		Hamburg		Q15834415
Paul Coletti		British musician	United Kingdom	1959		Edinburgh		Q2919214
Jean Sulem		French musician	France	1959				Q3174695
Vincent Lionti		American violist and conductor (1959-2020)	United States	1959-04-09	2020-04-04	Bethesda	New York City	Q89669404
Alain Celo		violist	France	1960		Neuilly-sur-Seine		Q2829647
Simone Heilgendorff		German violist and musicologist		1961		Opladen		Q56514568
Tatjana Masurenko		German violist of Russian descent (born 1965)	Germany	1965-01-21		Dushanbe		Q1695026
Harmut Rohde		violinist	Germany	1966-04-28		Hildesheim		Q111141
Pierre Lénert		French violist (born 1966)	France	1966				Q3386044
Sabine Toutain		French violinist	France	1966				Q3460573
Patrizia Di Paolo		Italian stage director	Italy	1966-05-12				Q16887741
David Yang		American violist	United States	1967		New York City		Q5241346
Gilad Karni		Israeli violist	Israel	1968 1974		Tel Aviv		Q5560695
Laura Anne Bossert		American musician	United States	1968-04-24				Q18684908
Brett Deubner		musical artist	United States	1968-03-31		Berkeley		Q28748013
Philip Dukes		British violist (born 1968)		1968				Q28868991
Ashan Pillai		British musician	United Kingdom	1969		Sri Lanka		Q4804559
Rita Porfiris		American violist and arranger		1969-07-16				Q61581459
Roland Glassl		German musician	Germany	1972		Ingolstadt		Q3440079
Avri Levitan		Israeli violist	Israel	1973		Tel Aviv		Q4829451
Scott Slapin		American musician	United States	1974				Q7437269
Viacheslav Dinerchtein		musician	Belarus	1976-10-30		Minsk		Q507263
Anton Jivaev		Russian violist		1976		Tashkent		Q590708
Lawrence Power		British violist	United Kingdom	1977		London		Q3219917
Julia Rebekka Adler		German classical violist	Germany	1978		Heidelberg		Q459893
Konstantin Sellheim		German violist		1978				Q50380910
Antoine Tamestit		French musician	France	1979-07-11		Paris		Q2856761
Amihai Grosz		Israeli-born violist	Israel	1979		Jerusalem		Q6586745
Peter Bucknell		Documentary film maker	Australia	1980				Q7173044
Wen Xiao Zheng		Chinese violist	People's Republic of China	1981		Shanghai		Q575977
Barbara Buntrock		German woman violist	Germany	1982-02-18		Wuppertal		Q807377
Lise Berthaud		French violist	France	1982		Bourg-en-Bresse		Q29863160
Joaquín Riquelme García		violist, viola soloist, member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra	Germany	1983		La Alberca		Q923586
Yang Jing		Chinese violinist	People's Republic of China	1983				Q41787852
Marco Misciagna		Italian violist, violinist, educator (born 1984)	Italy	1984-02-05		Bari		Q117184901
Abi Fry		English violist	United Kingdom	1986-11-28				Q4667519
David Aaron Carpenter		American musician	United States	1986-04-05		New York City		Q5230559
Kristina Fialová		Czech violist		1987		Brno		Q15284995
Myriam Rignol		French violist	France	1988-07-12		Perpignan		Q2083084
Blake Allen		American composer and viola player (born 1988)	United States	1988-07-21		Tucson		Q106395619
Timothy Ridout		British viola player (born 1995)	United Kingdom	1995		London Borough of Waltham Forest		Q112243185
Sào Soulez Larivière		French-Dutch violist	France	1998		Paris		Q132527111
Armando Cañizales		Venezuelan violist	Venezuela	1999	2017-05-03	Caracas	Avenida Río de Janeiro	Q60306192
Alexander Mishnaevski		Russian violist	United States					Q4719666
Fredrik Paulsson		Swedish musician	Sweden					Q5499510
Helen Callus		British musician	United Kingdom					Q5701982
Jennifer Stumm		American musician	United States					Q6178857
Jethro Marks		Canadian musician	Canada					Q6189024
Marika Shaw		Canadian musician	Canada					Q6763418
Melia Watras		American musician	United States			Honolulu		Q6812272
Vesna Stefanovich-Gruppman		Serbian violin and viola player	Germany			Yugoslavia		Q7923261
Hong-Mei Xiao		Chinese violist	People's Republic of China			Qingdao		Q15150066
Caroline Coade		American violinist	United States					Q15844981
Pemi Paull		Canadian violist, chamber musician, teacher, recording artist, and improvising musician						Q17000273
Nadia Sirota		American violist	United States					Q17125737
Andrew Ling		Hong Kong violist						Q21998602
Teng Li		Chinese Canadian violist	People's Republic of China Canada			Nanjing		Q22278859
Katrina Sharples		New Zealand biostatistician						Q67201371
Jordan Bak		jamaican-American violist						Q139057248

Misc

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Alessandro Striggio		Italian opera librettist	Republic of Venice	1573	1630-06-06 1630-06-15	Mantua	Venice	Q1334439
Ferdinand Rudolph Fränzl		German musician		1710-08-12	1782-09-15	Innsbruck	Mannheim	Q55908934
Hugo Frey		American composer, pianist, and violinist (1873–1952)	United States	1873-08-26	1952-02-13			Q5933959
Len Howard		British ornithologist	United Kingdom	1894	1973-01-05			Q1817215
Karla Höcker		German writer	Germany	1901-09-01	1992-10-15	Berlin	Berlin	Q6372443
Walter Sidney Metcalf		New Zealand physical chemist (1918–2008)	New Zealand	1918-05-18	2008-07-24	Kaitangata	New Zealand	Q7966134
Ulrich Koch		German musician (1921-1996)	Germany	1921-03-14	1996-06-07	Brunswick	Tokyo	Q100650
Emil Platen		German choir director	Germany	1925-09-16		Düsseldorf		Q1336660
Hatto Beyerle		German musician (1933-2023)	Germany	1933-06-20	2023-10-16	Frankfurt	Hanover	Q1150238
Simon Whistler		British musician and glass engraver, born 1940	United Kingdom	1940-09-10	2005-04-18	Barnstaple		Q61293589
Atar Arad		Israeli musician	Israel	1945-03-08		Tel Aviv		Q2868775
Veronika Hagen		Austrian musician	Austria	1963-05-05		Salzburg		Q276244
Bruno Cocset		French cellist	France	1963				Q16841950
Ed Le Brocq		Musician, Radio presenter, Music teacher	Australia	1967		Dover		Q5372724
Ari Poutiainen		Finnish musician	Finland	1972				Q4790120
Nils Mönkemeyer		German university teacher and violist	Germany	1978		Bremen		Q1992400
Julien Chauvin		French music director and violinist	France	1979-03-11		Fontainebleau		Q19607210
Tamara Stajner		Slovenian violist and writer (born 1987)	Slovenia	1987-09-06		Novo Mesto		Q110727002
Astrid Sonne		Danish singer-songwriter and violist	Kingdom of Denmark	1994		Bornholm		Q126300982

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