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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 (b. 1934)
Rudolf Barshai (1924–2010), conductor
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
Vasily Bessel (1843–1907), music publisher
Mikhail Bezverkhny (b. 1947), violinist
Franz Beyer (b. 1922)
Benjamin Blake (1751–1827), composer, violinist
Herbert Blendinger (b. 1936), composer
Joseph von Blumenthal (1782–1856), violinist, composer
Alexandre Pierre François Boëly (1785–1858)
Emil Bohnke (1888–1928), composer, conductor
Vadim Borisovsky (1900–1972)
York Bowen (1884–1961), composer, pianist
Máximo Arrates Boza (1859–1936), composer
Frank Bridge (1879–1941), composer
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), composer
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)
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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
Ladislav Černý (1891–1975)
Eugène Chartier (1893–1963), violinist, conductor
Roger Chase (b. 1953)
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
Wayne Crouse (1924–2000)
John Curro (b. 1932), conductor
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Veronika Hagen (b. 1963)
Harutyun Hanesyan (1911–1987), composer
John Harbison (b. 1938), 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
Ketil Hvoslef (b. 1939)
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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
Volker David Kirchner (b. 1942), composer
Dmitri Klebanov (1907–1987)
Paul Klengel (1854–1935), violinist, pianist
Garth Knox (b. 1956)
František Kočvara (1730–1791), composer
Tosca Kramer (1903–1976)
Alison Krauss (b. 1971)
Emil Kreuz (1867–1932)
Milan Křížek (b. 1926), composer
Theodore Kuchar (b. 1960), conductor
Ferdinand Küchler (1867–1937), violinist, composer
Michael Kugel (b. 1946)
Sigiswald Kuijken (b. 1944), violinist, conductor
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Jef Maes (1905–1996), composer
Sergey Malov (b. 1983), violinist
Mat Maneri (b. 1969), composer, violinist
Michael Mann (1919–1977), violinist
Jethro Marks
Carlo Martelli (b. 1935), composer
Uri Mayer (b. 1946), conductor
Eduard Melkus (b. 1928), violinist
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), composer
Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), violinist
John Metcalfe (b. 1964)
Miroslav Miletić (b. 1925), composer
Shlomo Mintz (b. 1957), violinist
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 (? –2007)
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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)
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)
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)
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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)
Joaquín Riquelme García (b. 1983)
Karen Ritscher
Hermann Ritter (1849–1926)
Carol Rodland
Jean Rogister (1879–1964), composer
Harmut 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)
Miklós Rózsa (1907–1995), composer
Thomas Ryan (1827–1903)
Maxim Rysanov (b. 1978)
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Luigi Sagrati (1921–2008)
Philip Sainton (1891–1967), composer, conductor
Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio (b. 1960), violinist
Guido Santórsola (1904–1994), composer
Hermann Scherchen (1891–1966), conductor
Peter Schidlof (1922–1987)
Ervin Schiffer (1932–2014)
Franz Schubert (1797–1828), composer
Joseph Schubert (1754–1837), composer, violinist
David Schwartz (1916–2013)
Rudolf Schwarz (1905–1994), conductor
Albert Seitz (1872–1937), composer
Tibor Serly (1901–1978), composer
William Shield (1748–1829)
Oscar Shumsky (1917–2000), violinist, conductor
Paul Silverthorne (b. 1951)
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
Scott St. John (b. 1969)
Simon Streatfeild (b. 1929), conductor
Jennifer Stumm
Josef Suk (1929–2011), violinist
Jean Sulem (b. 1959)
Louis Svećenski (1862–1926)
Gusztáv Szerémi (1877–1952), composer
Lionel Tertis
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Robert Talbot (1893–1954), conductor, composer, violinist
Václav Talich (1883–1961), conductor, violinist
Antoine Tamestit (b. 1979)
Will Taylor (b. 1968)
Anahit Tsitsikian (1926–1999), violinist, musicologist
Jan Tausinger (1921–1980), composer, conductor
Yuri Temirkanov (b. 1938), conductor
Mela Tenenbaum , violinist
Lionel Tertis (1876–1975)
Marcus Thompson (b. 1946)
Katia Tiutiunnik (b. 1967), composer
Lars Anders Tomter (b. 1959)
Giuseppe Torelli (1658–1709), pedagogue, composer
Walter Trampler (1915–1997)
Michael Tree (b. 1934)
Karen Tuttle (1920–2010)
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