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This is a list of notable classical violinists from the
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era to the 21st century. For a more comprehensive list of contemporary classical violinists, see
List of contemporary classical violinists This is a list of notable contemporary classical violinists. For the names of notable violinists of all classical music eras see List of classical violinists. Classical violinists A * Rochelle Abramson * Irene Abrigo (born 1988) * Salvatore ...
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Baroque era

* Christian Heinrich Aschenbrenner (1654–1732) *
Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (German: Help:IPA/Standard German, joːhan zeˈbasti̯an baχ ( – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque music, Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety ...
(1685–1750) *
Thomas Baltzar Thomas Baltzar ('' c''. 1630 – 24 July 1663) was a German violinist and composer. He was born in Lübeck to a musical family; his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all musicians.Holman, Peter. "Baltzar, Thomas". Grove Music Onlin ...
(c. 1630–1663) *
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber correctly ''Biber von Bibern'' ( bapt. 12 August 1644, Stráž pod Ralskem – 3 May 1704, Salzburg) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist. Biber worked in Graz and Kroměříž before he illegally left ...
(1644–1704) *
Pasquale Bini Pasquale Bini (21 June 1716 – April 1770) was an Italian violinist and composer of the Baroque era. He was a student of Giuseppe Tartini in Padua and later moved to Rome, where he performed under the patronage of Cardinal Fabio degli Abati Olivie ...
(1716–1770) *
Arcangelo Corelli Arcangelo Corelli (, also , ; ; 17 February 1653 – 8 January 1713) was an List of Italian composers, Italian composer and violinist of the middle Baroque music, Baroque era. His music was key in the development of the modern genres of Sonata a ...
(1653–1713) *
Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco (12 July 1675, Verona, Italy — 12 July 1742, Munich, Bavaria) was an Italian composer, violinist, and cellist. Life Dall'Abaco was born in Verona to renowned guitarist Damiano dall'Abaco. He is thought to have bee ...
(1675–1742) *
Matthew Dubourg Matthew Dubourg (1703 – 3 July 1767) was an English violinist, conductor, and composer who spent most of his life in Ireland. Among other achievements, Dubourg led the orchestra at the premiere of Georg Friedrich Handel's great oratorio ''Me ...
(1707–1767) * André-Joseph Exaudet (1710–1762) *
Carlo Farina Carlo Farina (ca. 1600 – July 1639) was an Italian composer, conductor and violinist of the Early Baroque era. Life Farina was born at Mantua. He presumably received his first lessons from his father, who was '' sonatore di viola'' at th ...
(1600–1640) *
Francesco Geminiani Francesco Xaverio Geminiani (baptised 5 December 1687 – 17 September 1762) was an Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist. BBC Radio 3 once described him as "now largely forgotten, but in his time considered almost a musical god, deem ...
(1687–1762) *
Louis-Gabriel Guillemain Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (5 November 1705 – 1 October 1770) was a French composer and violinist. Biography Guillemain is thought to have been born in Paris, was brought up by the Count de Rochechouart, and started studying violin at an early ag ...
(1705–1770) *
Jean-Marie Leclair Jean-Marie Leclair l'aîné (Jean-Marie Leclair the Elder) (10 May 1697 – 22 October 1764) was a French Baroque violinist and composer. He is considered to have founded the French violin school. His brothers, the lesser-known Jean-Marie ...
(1697–1764) *
Pietro Locatelli Pietro Antonio Locatelli (3 September 1695 in Bergamo – 30 March 1764 in Amsterdam) was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist. Biography Bergamo Little is known about Locatelli's childhood. In his early youth, he was the third violinist a ...
(1695–1764) *
Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste Lully ( – 22 March 1687) was a French composer, dancer and instrumentalist of Italian birth, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he spent most of his life working in the court o ...
(1632–1687) *
Francesco Manfredini Francesco Onofrio Manfredini (22 June 1684 – 6 October 1762) was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and church musician. He was born at Pistoia to a trombonist. In Bologna, then a part of the Papal States, he studied violin with Giuseppe ...
(1684–1762) *
Nicola Matteis Nicola Matteis (Matheis) (c. 1650 – after 1713) was the earliest notable Italian Baroque violinist in London, whom Roger North judged in retrospect "to have been a second to Corelli," and a composer of significant popularity in his time, thoug ...
(1670–1714) * Davis Mell (1604–1662) *
Jean-Joseph de Mondonville Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (, 25 December 1711 (baptised) – 8 October 1772), also known as Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, was a French violinist and composer. He was a younger contemporary of Jean-Philippe Rameau and enjoyed great succe ...
(1711–1772) *
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Giovanni Battista Draghi (; 4 January 1710 – 16 or 17 March 1736), usually referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (), was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist, leading exponent of the Baroque; he is considered one of the g ...
(1710-1736) *
Johann Georg Pisendel Johann Georg Pisendel ( – 25 November 1755) was a German Baroque violinist and composer who, for many years, led the Court Orchestra in Dresden as concertmaster, then the finest instrumental ensemble in Europe. He was the leading violinist of ...
(1687–1755) *
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c. 1620–1623between 29 February and 20 March 1680) was an Austrian composer and violinist of the middle Baroque era. Almost nothing is known about his early years, but he seems to have arrived in Vienna during the 163 ...
(1623–1680) *
Giovanni Battista Somis Giovanni Battista Somis (December 25, 1686 – August 14, 1763) was an Italian violinist and composer of the Baroque music era. He studied under Arcangelo Corelli between 1703 and 1706 or 1707. He was later appointed solo violinist to the ...
(1686–1763) *
Giuseppe Tartini Giuseppe Tartini (8 April 1692 – 26 February 1770) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era born in Pirano in the Republic of Venice (now Piran, Slovenia). Tartini was a prolific composer, composing over a hundred pieces for the ...
(1692–1770) *
Carlo Tessarini Carlo Tessarini (1690 – after 15 December 1766), was an Italian composer and violinist in the late Baroque era. Tessarini was born 1690 in Rimini and died in Amsterdam, Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally H ...
(1690–1765) *
Giuseppe Torelli Giuseppe Torelli (22 April 1658 Verona – 8 February 1709) was an Italian violinist, teacher and composer of the middle Baroque era. Brother of the painter Felice Torelli, he is most remembered for contributing to the development of the concer ...
(1658–1709) *
Francesco Maria Veracini Francesco Maria Veracini (1 February 1690 – 31 October 1768) was an Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his sets of violin sonatas. As a composer, according to Manfred Bukofzer, "His individual, if not subjective, style has ...
(1690–1768) *
Giovanni Battista Vitali Giovanni Battista Vitali (18 February 1632 – 12 October 1692) was an Italian composer and violone player. Life and career Vitali was born in Bologna and spent all of his life in the Emilian region, moving to Modena in 1674. His teacher in his ...
(1632–1692) *
Tomaso Antonio Vitali Tomaso Antonio Vitali (7 March 1663 – 9 May 1745) was an Italian composer and violinist of the mid to late Baroque music, Baroque era. The eldest son of Giovanni Battista Vitali, he is chiefly known for a Chaconne in G minor for violin and Fig ...
(1663–1745) *
Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist, impresario of Baroque music and Roman Catholic priest. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lif ...
(1678–1741)


Classical era

* Leopold August Abel (1717–1794) * Jean Ancot Jnr (1799–1829) *
Pierre Baillot Pierre Marie François de Sales Baillot (; 1 October 1771 – 15 September 1842) was a French violinist and composer born in Passy. He studied the violin under Giovanni Battista Viotti and taught at the Conservatoire de Paris together with Pierr ...
(1771–1842) *
Charles Frederick Baumgarten Charles Frederick Baumgarten (originally Karl Friedrich Baumgarten; 1739/1740 – 1824) was a German-born violinist, organist, composer and teacher, living in London. Life Baumgarten was born in Lübeck, and was a pupil of the organist . In 1757 ...
(1739–1840) *
Franz Benda Franz Benda (; baptised 22 November 1709 – 7 March 1786) was a Bohemian violinist and composer, who worked for much of his life at the court of Frederick the Great. Life Benda was born in Old Benatek in Bohemia, the son of Jan Jiří Benda ...
(1709–1786) *
Gaetano Brunetti Gaetano (or Cayetano) Brunetti (1744 in Fano, Italy – 16 December 1798, Colmenar de Oreja, Madrid, Spain) was an Italian-born composer who was active in Spain during the reigns of kings Charles III and Charles IV. As well as being musica ...
(1744–1798) * Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni (1757–1821) *
Bartolomeo Campagnoli Bartolomeo Campagnoli (September 10, 1751 – November 6, 1827) was an Italian violinist and composer. Campagnoli was a virtuoso violinist who toured Europe propagating the 18th Century Italian violin style. He also has a number of compositions t ...
(1751–1827) *
Christian Cannabich Johann Christian Innocenz Bonaventura Cannabich (28 December 1731 (bapt.) – 20 January 1798), was a German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister of the Classical era. A composer of some 200 works, he continued the legacy of Johann Stamitz ...
(1731–1798) * Franz Clement (1780–1842) * Richard Cudmore (1787–1840) *
Ernst Christoph Dressler Ernst Christoph Dressler (23 September 1734 – 6 April 1779) was a German composer, operatic tenor, violinist and music theory, music theorist. He began his career as a self taught singer and violinist, but eventually received vocal training from ...
(1734–1779) *
Franz Eck Franz Eck (1776 – c. 1810) was a German violinist. His violin technique, acquired from the Mannheim school of playing in the court orchestra of Mannheim, was passed to his pupil Louis Spohr. Life Eck was born in Mannheim, baptised on 9 February ...
(1776–1810) *
Domenico Ferrari Domenico Ferrari (1722 – 1780)Ferrari, Domenico
'' Ferdinand Fränzl Ferdinand Fränzl (24 May 1767 in Schwetzingen – 27 October 1833 in Mannheim) was a German violinist, composer, conductor, opera director, and a representative of the third generation of the so-called Mannheim school. The quality of his vio ...
(1767–1833) *
Ignaz Fränzl Ignaz Fränzl (3 June 1736 – 6 September 1811 (buried)) was a German violinist, composer and representative of the second generation of the so-called Mannheim School. Mozart, who heard him at a concert in November 1777, wrote of him in a lette ...
(1736–1811) *
Pierre Gaviniès Pierre Gaviniès (11 May 1728 – 8 September 1800) was a French violinist, pedagogue and composer. Life Born in Bordeaux as the son of a luthier, Gaviniès was taken to Paris by his father in 1734. At age 13, he made his debut at the Concert Spi ...
(1728–1800) *
Eugène Godecharle Eugène-Charles-Jean Godecharle (bapt. 15 January 1742 – 26 June 1798) was a Belgian violinist and composer. Family Godecharle was born in Brussels in 1742. His father, Jacques-Antoine Godecharle, was master of music in the church of St Nicho ...
(1742–1798) *
Jean-Jacques Grasset Jean-Jacques Grasset (c.1769 – 25 August 1839) was a French classical violinist. He was born in Paris about 1769, and was a pupil of Isidore Bertheaume. After several years' obligatory service in the army, he soon became well-known on his retur ...
(c. 1769–1839) *
Johann Gottlieb Graun Johann Gottlieb Graun (1702/1703 – 27 October 1771) was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (s ...
(1703–1771) *
François Habeneck François Antoine Habeneck (22 January 1781 – 8 February 1849) was a French classical violinist and conductor. Early life Habeneck was born at Mézières, the son of a musician in a French regimental band. During his early youth, Habeneck w ...
(1781–1849) *
Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( ; ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions ...
(1732–1809) * Thaddäus Huber (1742–1798) *
Ivan Mane Jarnović Ivan Mane Jarnović (; 26 October 1747 – 23 November 1804) was a violinist and composer during the 18th century, often said to have been Italian but whose family was of Ragusan (today in Croatia) origin. There is no evidence that he ever lived ...
(1747–1804) *
Rodolphe Kreutzer Rodolphe Kreutzer (15 November 1766 – 6 January 1831) was a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including '' La mort d'Abel'' (1810). He is probably best known as the dedicatee of Beethoven's Violin Son ...
(1766–1831) *
Thomas Linley the younger Thomas Linley the younger (7 May 1756 – 5 August 1778), also known as Thomas Linley, Junior or Tom Linley, was the eldest son of the composer Thomas Linley the elder, Thomas Linley and his wife Mary Johnson. He was one of the most precocious c ...
(1756–1778) *
Antonio Lolli Antonio Lolli (c. 1725 – 10 August 1802) was an Italian violinist and composer. Life Lolli, who was born about 1725 in Bergamo, Italy, was one of the foremost Italian violinists of the 18th century. Between 1758 and 1774, he was solo vio ...
(1730–1802) *
Heinrich August Matthaei Heinrich August Matthaei (3 October 1781 – 4 November 1835) was a German violinist and composer. He was for many years concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Life Matthaei was born in Dresden in 1781. Little is known of his early li ...
(1781–1835) *
Jean-Joseph de Mondonville Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (, 25 December 1711 (baptised) – 8 October 1772), also known as Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, was a French violinist and composer. He was a younger contemporary of Jean-Philippe Rameau and enjoyed great succe ...
(1711–1772) * Franz Anton Morgenroth (1780–1847) *
Leopold Mozart Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 – May 28, 1787) was a German composer, violinist, and music theorist. He is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook ''Versuch einer grün ...
(1719–1787) *
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age ...
(1756–1791) *
Pietro Nardini Pietro Nardini (12 April 1722 – 7 May 1793) was an Italian composer and violinist, a transitional musician who worked in both the Baroque and Classical era traditions. Life Nardini was born in Livorno and at the age of 12 became a pupil o ...
(1722–1793) * Thomas Pinto (1728–1773) *
Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis (1786 – 20 October 1842) was a German violinist. He became professor of violin at Prague Conservatory and was important in the musical life of Prague. Life Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis was born in Mannheim in 1786. His father ...
(1786–1842) *
Gaetano Pugnani Gaetano Pugnani (27 November 1731 – 15 July 1798, full name: Giulio Gaetano Gerolamo Pugnani) was an Italian composer and violinist. Biography Gaetano Pugnani was born in 1731 in Turin, the city where he spent most of his life, son of Giov ...
(1731–1798) *
Pierre Rode Jacques Pierre Joseph Rode (; 16 February 1774 – 25 November 1830) was a French violinist and composer. Life and career Born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France, Pierre Rode traveled in 1787 to Paris and soon became a favourite pupil of the great Gi ...
(1774–1830) *
Alessandro Rolla Alessandro Rolla (; 23 April 175714 September 1841) was an Italian viola and violin virtuoso, composer, conductor and teacher. His son, Antonio Rolla, was also a violin virtuoso and composer. His fame now rests mainly as "teacher of the great ...
(1757–1841) * Antonio Rolla (1798–1837) *
Ignaz Schuppanzigh Ignaz Schuppanzigh (20 July 1776 – 2 March 1830) was an Austrian violinist and friend of Beethoven, and leader of Count Razumovsky's private string quartet. Schuppanzigh and his quartet premiered many of Beethoven's string quartets, and in par ...
(1776–1830) *
Anton Stamitz Anton Thadäus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz (November 1750 – ) was a German composer and violinist. He was born in the Holy Roman Empire. Anton was born during a family visit to Německý Brod and baptised there on 27 November 1750. He and his brothe ...
(1754–1796) *
Carl Stamitz Carl Philipp Stamitz (; baptized 8 May 17459 November 1801) was a German composer of partial Czech ancestry. He was the most prominent representative of the second generation of the Mannheim School. He was the eldest son of Johann Stamitz, a vio ...
(1745–1801) *
Johann Stamitz Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz (Czech: Jan Václav Antonín Stamic; 18 June 1717 – 27 March 1757) was a Bohemian composer and violinist. His two surviving sons, Carl and Anton Stamitz, were composers of the Mannheim school, of which Johann ...
(1717–1757) *
Regina Strinasacchi Regina Schlick née Strinasacchi (c. 1761 – 11 June 1839) was a violin virtuoso and guitarist in a time when women rarely performed on the violin in public. She knew Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart well enough that he composed the Sonata in B flat for ...
(c. 1761–1839) *
Luigi Tomasini Luigi Tomasini (or Alois Luigi Tomasini; 22 June 1741 – 25 April 1808) was an Italian violinist and composer. He was leader of Prince Esterházy's court orchestra, which was directed by Joseph Haydn. Life Tomasini was born in Pesaro, Italy, in ...
(1741–1808) *
Giovanni Battista Viotti Giovanni Battista Viotti (12 May 1755 – 3 March 1824) was an Italian violinist whose virtuosity was famed and whose work as a composer featured a prominent violin and an appealing lyrical tunefulness. He was also a director of French and Italia ...
(1755–1824)


Romantic era

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Jean-Delphin Alard Jean-Delphin Alard (8 March 181522 February 1888) was a French violinist, composer, and teacher. He was the son-in-law of Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, and had Pablo de Sarasate amongst his students. Biography Alard was born in Bayonne, the son of an ...
(1815–1888) *
Enrique Fernández Arbós Enrique Fernández Arbós (24 December 1863 – 2 June 1939) was a Spanish violinist, composer and conductor who divided much of his career between Madrid and London. He originally made his name as a virtuoso violinist and later as one of Spain's ...
(1863–1939) *
Leopold Auer Leopold von Auer (; June 7, 1845July 15, 1930) was a Hungarian violinist, academic, conductor, composer, and instructor. Many of his students went on to become prominent concert performers and teachers. Early life and career Auer was born in ...
(1845–1930) *
Stanisław Barcewicz Stanisław Barcewicz (16 April 18581 September 1929) was a Polish violinist, conductor and teacher. Although his repertoire included almost all of the classical and romantic violin literature, he was valued primarily for his interpretations of wor ...
(1858–1929) *
Antonio Bazzini Antonio Bazzini (11 March 181810 February 1897) was an Italian violinist, composer and teacher. As a composer, his most enduring work is his chamber music, which earned him a central place in the Italian instrumental renaissance of the 19th centu ...
(1818–1897) * Dora Valesca Becker (1870–1958) *
Antonín Bennewitz Antonín Bennewitz (also Anton Bennewitz; 26 March 1833 – 29 May 1926) was a Bohemian violinist, conductor, and teacher. He was in a line of violinists that extended back to Giovanni Battista Viotti, and forward to Jan Kubelík and Wolfgang ...
(1833–1926) *
Charles Auguste de Bériot Charles Auguste de Bériot (; 20 February 18028 April 1870) was a Belgian violinist, artist and composer. Biography Charles de Bériot was born in 1802 in Leuven, France (now part of Belgium) into a noble family but was orphaned at the age of n ...
(1802–1870) *
Franz Berwald Franz Adolf Berwald (23 July 1796 – 3 April 1868) was a Swedish Romantic composer and violinist. He made his living as an orthopedist and later as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory, and became more appreciated as a composer after ...
(1796–1868) * Casimir von Blumenthal (1787–1849) * Joseph von Blumenthal (1782–1856) * Alexandre Boucher (1770–1861) *
George Bridgetower George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (11 October 1778 – 29 February 1860) was a British musician, of African and Polish descent. He was a virtuoso violinist who lived in England for much of his life. His playing impressed Beethoven, who ...
(1778–1860) *
Adolph Brodsky Adolph Davidovich Brodsky (, ''Adolf Davidovič Brodskij''; – 22 January 1929) was a Russian violinist who later moved to the United States. He enjoyed a long and illustrious career as a performer and teacher, starting early in Vienna, going o ...
(1851–1929) *
Ole Bull Ole Bornemann Bull (; 5 February 181017 August 1880) was a Norwegian virtuoso violinist and composer. According to Robert Schumann, he was on a level with Niccolò Paganini for the speed and clarity of his playing. Biography Background Bull was ...
(1810–1880) * Kate Chaplin (1865–1948) * Fanny Claus (1846–1877) * Julius Conus (1869–1942) *
Mathieu Crickboom Mathieu Crickboom (2 March 1871 – 30 October 1947) was a Belgium, Belgian violinist, who was born in Verviers (Hodimont) and died in Brussels. Crickboom was the principal disciple of Eugène Ysaÿe, who dedicated to him his Six Sonatas for so ...
(1871–1947) *
Alfredo D'Ambrosio Alfredo d'Ambrosio (13 June 1871 – 28 December 1914) was an Italian composer and violinist. He studied under Enrico Bossi at the Conservatory San Pietro a Majella in Naples, and later with Pablo de Sarasate in Madrid and August Wilhelmj in Londo ...
(1871–1914) *
Charles Dancla (Jean Baptiste) Charles Dancla (; 19 December 181710 November 1907) was a French violinist, composer and teacher. Biography Dancla was born in Bagnères-de-Bigorre. When he was nine years old, violinist Pierre Rode in Bordeaux heard his music; he ...
(1817–1907) *
Joseph Dando Joseph Dando (full name Joseph Haydon Bourne Dando; 11 May 1806 – 9 May 1894) was an English violinist and viola player. He introduced the first public concerts of chamber music in England. Early career Dando was born in Somers Town, London in ...
(1806–1894) *
Ferdinand David Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic , abstract noun from root "to fare, travel" (PIE , "to lead, pass over"), and "courage" or "ready, prepared" related to Old High German "to risk, ventu ...
(1810–1873) *
Adolphe Deloffre Louis Michel Adolphe Deloffre (28 July 1817 – 8 January 1876) was a French violinist and conductor active in London and Paris, who conducted several important operatic premieres in the latter city, particularly by Charles Gounod and Georges Bize ...
(1817–1876) *
Alfred De Sève Alfred De Sève (May or June 1858 – 25 November 1927) was a Canadian violinist, composer, and music educator. His compositional output includes works for violin and piano, solo piano, and orchestra; many of which were published by Arthur P. Sc ...
(1858–1927) *
Jakob Dont Jakob Dont (March 2, 1815 – November 17, 1888) was an Austrian violinist, composer, and teacher. He was born and died in Vienna. His father Valentin Dont was a noted cellist. Jakob was a student of Josef Böhm (1795–1876) and of Georg Hellm ...
(1815–1888) *
František Drdla František Alois Drdla ( Germanized as Franz Drdla; 28 November 1868 – 3 September 1944) was a prominent Czech concert violinist and composer of light music. Biography Drdla was born in 1868 in Žďár nad Sázavou, in what is now the Czech ...
(1868–1944) *
Bram Eldering Abraham "Bram" Eldering (8 July 1865 – 17 June 1943) was a Dutch violinist and music pedagogue. Life Born in Groningen, Bram (abbreviation of ''Abraham'') Eldering studied violin with Jenő Hubay at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. Aft ...
(1865–1943) *
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (8 June 1812 – 8 October 1865) was a Moravian-Jewish violinist, violist and composer. He was seen as the outstanding violinist of his time and one of Niccolò Paganini's greatest successors. He contributed to polyphonic ...
(1814–1865) *
Friedrich Ernst Fesca Friedrich Ernst Fesca (15 February 1789 – 24 May 1826) was a German violinist and composer of instrumental music. Life and career He was born at Magdeburg. His father, Johann Peter August Fesca, was the market judge of Magdeburg and active in ...
(1789–1826) *
Nahan Franko Nahan Franko (July 23, 1861 - June 7, 1930) was an American violinist, conductor and concert promoter. His brother was violinist and conductor Sam Franko. Biography Franko was born in New Orleans on July 23, 1861. He studied the violin in Eu ...
(1861–1930) *
Sam Franko Sam Franko (January 20, 1857 – May 6, 1937) was an American violinist and conductor. He was the brother of violinist, conductor and concert promoter Nahan Franko. A native of New Orleans, Franko studied the violin in Europe, working with Jos ...
(1857–1937) *
Jules Garcin Jules Auguste Garcin alomon'' (11 July 1830 – 10 October 1896) was a French violinist, conductor and composer of the 19th century. Life Garcin was born in Bourges. His maternal grandfather, Joseph Garcin, was director of a travelling company p ...
(1830–1896) * Samuel Dean Grimson (1841–1922) *
Jakob Grün Jakob Moritz Grün (; 13 March 1837 – 1 October 1916) was an Austrian violinist of Hungarian origin. After positions as principal violinist in the court orchestras of Weimar and Hannover, he was, from 1868 to 1897, concertmaster of the Vienna ...
(1837–1916) *
François Habeneck François Antoine Habeneck (22 January 1781 – 8 February 1849) was a French classical violinist and conductor. Early life Habeneck was born at Mézières, the son of a musician in a French regimental band. During his early youth, Habeneck w ...
(1781–1849) *
Karel Halíř Karel Halíř (1 February 1859 – 21 December 1909) was a Czech violinist who lived mainly in Germany. "Karel" is also given as Karol, Karl or Carl; "Halíř" is also given as Halir or Haliř. Life Karel Halíř was born in Hohenelbe, Bohem ...
(1859–1909) *
Miska Hauser Miska Hauser (1822 – 8 December 1878) was an Austrian violinist. He undertook extensive concert tours, playing in Europe, North and South America, and Australia. He was also a composer. Life Hauser was born in Pressburg (now Bratislava), and his ...
(1822–1878) * Carl Heissler (1823–1878) *
Joseph Hellmesberger Jr. Joseph Heinrich Georg Hellmesberger Jr. (9 April 1855 – 26 April 1907), also known as Pepi Hellmesberger, was an Austrian composer, violinist and Conducting, conductor. Biography Hellmesberger was born in Vienna and was the son of violinis ...
(1855–1907) *
Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. Joseph is a common male name, derived from the Hebrew (). "Joseph" is used, along with " Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic count ...
(1828–1893) * Philip A. Herfort (1851–1921) * Willy Hess (1859–1939) * Karl Holz ( 1798–1858) *
Jenő Hubay Jenő Hubay von Szalatna ( ; 15 September 185812 March 1937), also known by his German name Eugen Huber (), was a Hungarian violinist, composer and music teacher. Early life Hubay was born into a German family of musicians in Pest, Hungary ...
(1858–1937) * Frantz Jehin-Prume (1839–1899) *
Joseph Joachim Joseph Joachim (28 June 1831 – 15 August 1907) was a Hungarian Violin, violinist, Conducting, conductor, composer and teacher who made an international career, based in Hanover and Berlin. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely ...
(1831–1907) *
Paul Klengel Paul Klengel (13 May 1854 – 24 April 1935) was a Germans, German violinist, Viola, violist, Piano, pianist, Conducting, conductor, composer, editor and arranger. He was the brother of Cello, cellist Julius Klengel. Biography Klengel was born a ...
(1854–1935) *
Franz Kneisel Franz Kneisel (January 26, 1865, Bucharest – March 26, 1926, New York) was a violinist, conductor, and music teacher. He completed early musical training at the Bucharest Conservatory and moved to Vienna in 1879, where he studied at the Vienna ...
(1865–1926) *
Jan Koert Jan Hendrik (Jan) Koert (6 November 1853, in Rotterdam – 2 February 1911, in Atlantic City) was a Dutch-born musician, a leading solo violinist of his day in America, and concertmaster for some of the world's greatest orchestras. Life and career ...
(1853–1911) *
Apollinaire de Kontski Apollinaire de Kontski (2 July 182429 June 1879) was a Polish violinist, teacher, and composer. Early life He was born in Warsaw (some sources say incorrectly Kraków) as Apolinary Kątski, the youngest of five musical siblings who all used th ...
(1825–1879) *
Iosif Kotek Iosif Iosifovich Kotek, also seen as Josef or Yosif (, ''Iosif Iosifovič Kotek''; 4 January 1885), was a Russian violinist and composer remembered for his association with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He assisted Tchaikovsky with technical difficult ...
(1855–1885) *
Dragomir Krančević Dragomir Krančević (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгомир Кранчевић, ; 4 October 1847 – 19 May 1929) was a Serbs, Serbian violinist in Austria-Hungary. Early life and education Born in Pančevo, Banat Military Frontier, Austrian Empire ...
(1847–1929) *
Franjo Krežma Franjo Krežma (4 September 1862 – 15 June 1881), also known as Franz Krezma in German-speaking countries, was a Croatian violinist and composer. Family and education Born in Osijek, Austrian Empire, he showed interest for music in his early ...
(1862–1881) *
Charles Philippe Lafont Charles Philippe Lafont (1 December 178123 August 1839) was a French violinist and composer. He has been characterized as one of the most eminent violinists of the French school.See Family Tree, under External links Biography Born in Paris, he re ...
(1781–1839) * Walborg Lagerwall (1851–1940) *
Hubert Léonard Hubert Léonard (; 7 April 1819 – 6 May 1890) was a Belgian violinist and composer. Biography Léonard was born in Liège, United Kingdom of the Netherlands on April 7 1819. His earliest preparatory training was given by a prominent teache ...
(1819–1890) *
Karol Lipiński Karol Józef Lipiński (30 October 1790 – 16 December 1861) was a Polish music composer and virtuoso violinist active during the partitions of Poland. The Karol Lipiński University of Music in Wrocław, Poland is named after him. Life L ...
(1790–1862) * John David Loder (1788–1846) * Maud MacCarthy (1882–1967) *
David Mannes David Mannes (16 February 1866 – 25 April 1959) was an American violinist, conductor, educator, and community organizer. Biography David Mannes was born in New York in 1866. He studied the violin in Harlem with composer and violinist John Tho ...
(1866–1959) * Martin Pierre Marsick (1847–1924) * Oscar Martel (1848–1924) *
Lambert Massart Joseph Lambert Massart (19 July 1811 – 13 February 1892) was a Belgium, Belgian violinist who has been credited with the origination of the systematic vibrato. He compiled ''The Art of Working at Kreutzer's Etudes,'' a supplement that contai ...
(1811–1892) *
Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer (February 8, 1789 – October 13–25, 1878) was a German composer, Conductor (music), conductor, and violinist born in Potsdam. In 1802, he debuted in Berlin with his first major violin performance. After a brief period of ...
(1789–1878) *
Joseph Mayseder Joseph Mayseder (27 October 1789 – 21 November 1863) was an Austrian violin virtuoso and composer. Biography Mayseder showed musical promise from an early age, and was a student of Joseph Suche (1797), Paul Wranitzky (1798) and Ignaz Schuppan ...
(1789–1863) * Jacques Féréol Mazas (1782–1849) * Maria Milanollo (1832–1848) *
Teresa Milanollo Teresa Milanollo (full name Domenica Maria Teresa; 1827–1904) and her younger sister, Maria Milanollo (1832–1848), were Italian violin-playing child prodigies who toured Europe extensively to great acclaim in the 1840s. After Maria died at a ...
(1827–1904) *
Jesús de Monasterio Jesús de Monasterio y Agüeros (21 March 1836 – 28 September 1903) was a Spanish violinist, composer, conductor and teacher. He was one of the main promoters of instrumental music in Madrid during the nineteenth century. Education De Monaster ...
(1836–1903) * Joseph Mosenthal (1834–1896) *
Ovide Musin Ovide Musin (September 22, 1854 – November 25, 1929) was a Belgian violinist and composer. Life Musin was born in Nandrin Nandrin () is a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality of Wallonia located in the Liège Province, province of Li ...
(1854–1929) *
Tivadar Nachéz Tivadar Nachéz (1 May 185929 May 1930) was a Hungarian violinist and composer for violin who had an international career, but made his home in London during his career. Tivadar Nachéz (he himself signed with Nachèz) was born in Budapest, where ...
(1859–1930) *
Wilma Neruda Wilhelmine Maria Franziska Neruda, also known as Wilma Norman-Neruda and Wilma, Lady Hallé, was a Czech virtuoso violinist, chamber musician, and teacher. Life and career Born in Brno (Brünn), Moravia, then part of the Austrian Empire, Ne ...
(1839–1911) *
Ottokar Nováček Ottokar Eugen Nováček (13 May 1866 – 3 February 1900) was an Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian violinist, violist and composer of Czech people, Czech descent. He is perhaps best known for his work ''Perpetuum Mobile'' (''Perpetual Motion''), ...
(1866–1900) *
Niccolò Paganini Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (; ; 27 October 178227 May 1840) was an Italian violinist and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. His 24 Caprices ...
(1782–1840) * Heinrich Panofka (1807–1887) * Guido Papini (1847–1912) *
Giovanni Battista Polledro Giovanni Battista Polledro (10 June 1781 – 15 August 1853) was an Italian violinist and composer. Life Polledro was born in Piovà near Turin, son of a merchant. Showing musical talent at an early age, he studied with local musicians, and at ...
(1781–1853) *
Maud Powell Minnie "Maud" Powell (August 22, 1867 – January 8, 1920) was an American violinist who gained international acclaim for her skill and virtuosity. Biography Powell was born in Peru, Illinois. Her mother was Wilhelmina "Minnie" Bengelstraeter ...
(1867–1920) * François Prume (1816–1849) *
Marietta Sherman Raymond Marietta Sherman Raymond (, Sherman; 1862–1949) was an American musical educator and orchestral conductor, as well as a successful violinist. In 1892, in Boston, Raymond was regarded as the most successful violin soloist, among women, while noti ...
(1862–1949) *
Léon Reynier Léon Reynier (11 August 1833 – 5 May 1895) was a well known and greatly appreciated French virtuoso violinist. Life Reynier was born in Saint-Cloud. He is said to have been presented by Napoleon III with a richly varnished 1681 orange-reddish S ...
(1833–1895) * Oskar Rieding (1840–1918) * Franz Ries (1846–1932) *
Achille Rivarde Achille Rivarde (31 October 186531 March 1940) was an American-born British violinist and teacher, who worked mainly in Europe and London. Biography Serge Achille Rivarde was born in New York City to a Spanish father and an American mother. He ...
(1865–1940) *
Engelbert Röntgen Engelbert Röntgen (30 September 1829 – 12 December 1897)Obituary
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(1829–1897) *
Amanda Röntgen-Maier Amanda Röntgen-Maier (20 February 1853 – 15 July 1894) was a Swedish violinist and composer. She was the first female graduate in music direction from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 1872. Biography Amanda Maier was born into a ...
(1853–1894) *
Pablo de Sarasate Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués (; 10 March 1844 – 20 September 1908), commonly known as Pablo de Sarasate, was a Spanish violinist, composer and Conducting, conductor of the Romantic music, Romantic period. His best known work ...
(1844–1908) *
Émile Sauret Émile Sauret (22 May 1852 – 12 February 1920) was a French violinist and composer. Sauret wrote over 100 violin pieces, including a famous cadenza for the first movement of Niccolò Paganini's First Violin Concerto, and the "Gradus ad Parna ...
(1852–1920) * Eugène Sauzay (1809–1901) * Marianne Stresow Scharwenka (1856–1918) *
Henry Schradieck Henry Schradieck (29 April 1846 – 25 May 1918) was a German violinist, music pedagogue and composer. He was one of the foremost violin teachers of his day. He wrote a series of etude books for the violin which are still in common use tod ...
(1846–1918) *
François Schubert François Schubert (né Franz Anton Schubert (the Younger); 22 July 1808, Dresden – 12 April 1878, Dresden) was a violinist and composer. After training with concertmaster Antonio Rolla in Dresden, Schubert studied violin with Charles Phili ...
(1808–1878) * Fritz (Friedrich) Seitz (1848–1918) * Arma Senkrah (1864–1900) *
Otakar Ševčík Otakar Ševčík (22 March 185218 January 1934) was a Czechs, Czech violinist and influential teacher. He was known as a Solo (music), soloist and an Musical ensemble, ensemble player, including his occasional performances with Eugène Ysaÿe. ...
(1852–1934) * Emily Shinner (1862–1901) * Ödön (Edmund) Singer (1830–1912) *
Camillo Sivori Ernesto Camillo Sivori (June 6, 1817February 18, 1894) was an Italian virtuoso violinist and composer. Life Early life Born in Genoa, he was the only known pupil of Niccolò Paganini. He also studied with composer Antonio Restano (1790–1 ...
(1818–1894) *
Theodore Spiering Theodore Bernays Spiering (September 5, 1871 – August 11, 1925) was an American violinist, conductor and teacher. Spiering was born in Old North St. Louis, Missouri, where at age five he took his first lessons in violin from his father, co ...
(1871–1925) *
Louis Spohr Louis Spohr (, 5 April 178422 October 1859), baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Highly regarded during his lifetime, Spohr composed ten symphonies, ...
(1784–1859) * Ludwig Straus (1835–1899) *
Johann Strauss I Johann Baptist Strauss I (; ; 14 March 1804 – 25 September 1849), also known as Johann Strauss Sr., the Elder or the Father (), was an Austrian composer of the Romantic music, Romantic Period. He was famous for his light music, namely waltzes, ...
(1804–1849) *
Johann Strauss II Johann Baptist Strauss II (; ; 25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son (), was an List of Austrian composers, Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas as well ...
(1825–1899) * Josef Suk (1874–1935) * Theodore Thomas (1835–1905) *
César Thomson César Thomson (18 March 1857 – 21 August 1931) was a Belgian violinist, teacher, and composer. Biography He was born in Liège in 1857. At age seven, he entered the Royal Conservatory of Liège, and studied under Désiré Heynberg, Rodolp ...
(1857–1931) *
Agnes Tschetschulin Agnes Tschetschulin (24 February 1859 – 23 April 1942) was a Finnish composer and violinist who toured internationally. Tschetschulin was born in Helsinki to Feodor and Hilda Eckstein Tschetschulin. She had three sisters: Maria, Melanie, and E ...
(1859–1942) *
Camilla Urso Camilla Urso (13 June 1840Pierre 1900p. 862 Other sources give her year of birth as 1842. – 20 January 1902) was a French-born child prodigy violinist, who became an American musician, "recognized as one of the finest violinists of the latter h ...
(1840–1902) * Thomas Henry Weist-Hill (1828–1891) *
Carl Venth Carl Venth (February 16, 1860 – January 29, 1938) was a Germany, German-United States, American composer, violinist, conducting, conductor, music education, music educator, and scholar. He was a leading classical music figure in Texas in ...
(1860–1938) *
Henri Vieuxtemps Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps (; 17 February 18206 June 1881) was a Belgian composer and violinist. He occupies an important place in the history of the violin as a prominent exponent of the Franco-Belgian violin school during the mid-19th c ...
(1820–1881) *
José White José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , ...
(1835–1918) *
Henryk Wieniawski Henryk Wieniawski (; 10 July 183531 March 1880) was a Polish virtuoso violinist, composer, and pedagogue, who is regarded amongst the most distinguished violinists in history. His younger brother Józef Wieniawski and nephew :pl:Adam Tadeusz Wien ...
(1835–1880) * Gabriele Wietrowetz (1866–1937) *
August Wilhelmj __NOTOC__ August Emil Daniel Ferdinand Wilhelmj ( ; 21 September 184522 January 1908) was a German violinist and teacher. Wilhelmj was born in Usingen and was considered a child prodigy; when Henriette Sontag heard him in 1852 at seven years ol ...
(1845–1908) *
Emanuel Wirth Emanuel Wirth (18 October 18425 January 1923) was a German violinist and violist. Wirth was born in Žlutice in western Bohemia and studied violin at the Prague Conservatory. He then became the concertmaster of the opera in Rotterdam, where he ...
(1842–1923) *
Eugène Ysaÿe Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe (; 16 July 185812 May 1931) was a Belgian virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tsar". Early years Born in Liège, Ysaÿe began ...
(1858–1931)


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List of contemporary classical violinists This is a list of notable contemporary classical violinists. For the names of notable violinists of all classical music eras see List of classical violinists. Classical violinists A * Rochelle Abramson * Irene Abrigo (born 1988) * Salvatore ...
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Joseph Achron Joseph Yulyevich Achron, also seen as Akhron (Russian: Иосиф Юльевич Ахрон, Hebrew: יוסף אחרון) (May 1, 1886April 29, 1943) was a Russian composer and violinist, who settled in the United States. His preoccupation with ...
(1886–1943) *
Murray Adaskin Murray Adaskin, (March 28, 1906 – May 6, 2002) was a Toronto-born Canadian violinist, composer, conductor and teacher. After playing violin with a band, he studied composition and became the director of the Music department of the University of ...
(1906–2002) *
Anahid Ajemian Anahid Marguerite Ajemian (; January 26, 1924 – June 13, 2016) was an American violinist of Armenian descent. Her career in contemporary music began from her desire to help young composers of her generation get their compositions performed ...
(1924–2016) *
Samuel Antek Samuel Antek (May 1, 1909 – January 27, 1958) was a violinist in the NBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Arturo Toscanini. He joined at the orchestra's inception in 1937 and played with it until its dissolution in 1954. Antek was also a condu ...
(1909–1958) *
Jelly d'Arányi Jelly d'Aranyi, fully Jelly Aranyi de Hunyadvár ( (30 May 189330 March 1966) was a Hungarian violinist who made her home in London. She was born in Budapest, the great-niece of Joseph Joachim and sister of the violinist Adila Fachiri, with whom ...
(1893–1966) * Helen Armstrong (1943–2006) *
Michèle Auclair Michèle Auclair (Paris, 16 November 1924 – Paris, 10 June 2005) was a French violinist and teacher. Michèle Auclair was born into a family with sense for arts and culture. Her first teacher was Line Talluel and later, at the Conservatoire de P ...
(1924–2005) * Florence Austin (1884–1927) *
Felix Ayo Felix Ayo Losada (1 July 1933 – 24 September 2023) was a Spanish-born Italian violinist. He was a founder of the Italian ensemble I Musici and of the Quartetto Beethoven di Roma. He played in major concert halls of the world as a soloist an ...
(1933–2023) * Sol Babitz (1911–1982) *
Grażyna Bacewicz Grażyna Bacewicz Biernacka (; 5 February 1909 – 17 January 1969) was a Polish composer and violinist of Lithuanian origin. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Ma ...
(1909–1969) *
Oskar Back Oskar Back (9 June 18793 January 1963) was a noted Austrian-born Dutch classical violinist and pedagogue. He taught at the Amsterdam Conservatory for 42 years, and also had a significant earlier teaching career in Belgium. Biography Oskar Bac ...
(1879–1963) *
Ik-Hwan Bae Ik-Hwan Bae (November 19, 1956 – July 24, 2014) was a South Korean-born American concert violinist. A native of Seoul, he made his professional debut with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 12. He attended New York City's prestigi ...
(1956–2014) *
Israel Baker Israel Baker (February 11, 1919 – December 25, 2011) was an American violinist and concertmaster. Through a long and varied career, he played with many of the greatest figures in the worlds of classical music, jazz and pop. He appeared on hund ...
(1919–2011) * Vera Barstow (1891–1975) * Walter Barylli (1921–2022) *
Hugh Bean Hugh Cecil Bean (22 September 1929 – 26 December 2003) was an English violinist. He was born in Beckenham. After lessons from his father from the age of five, he became a pupil of Albert Sammons (and Ken Piper) when he was nine years old. La ...
(1929–2003) * Louise Behrend (1916–2011) * Nina Beilina (1937–2018) *
Leon Belasco Leon Belasco (born Leonid Simeonovich Berladsky; 11 October 1902 – 1 June 1988) was a Russian-American actor and musician who had a career in film and television that spanned from the 1920s to the 1980s, appearing in more than 100 films. ...
(1902–1988) *
Franz Benteler Franz M. Benteler (1 June 1925 – 12 March 2010) was an American virtuoso violinist from Chicago, Illinois. A favorite of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, Benteler was known as the "Ambassador of Music for Chicago". Early life Benteler was born i ...
(1925–2010) * Yehonatan Berick (1968–2020) * Klara Berkovich (1928–2024) *
Luigi Alberto Bianchi Luigi Alberto Bianchi (1 January 1945 – 3 January 2018) was an Italian violinist and violist. Life Bianchi was born in 1945 in Rimini, into a musical family, and from the age of six he had violin lessons.Petrowitsch Bissing (1871–1961) * Serge Blanc (1929–2013) *
Harry Blech Hirsch "Harry" Blech CBE (June 1909 – 9 May 1999) was a British violinist and conductor. He founded the London Mozart Players in 1949, and was known also as a conductor of studio recordings for His Master's Voice and Decca Records. Life Harr ...
(1909–1999) *
Naoum Blinder Naoum Blinder (July 19, 1889 – November 21, 1965) was a Russian- American virtuoso violinist and teacher, born in Yevpatoria (then Russian Empire, now Ukraine). Early life and education He graduated from the Imperial Musical College of Odessa a ...
(1889–1965) *
Harry Bluestone Harry Bluestone (30 September 1907 – 22 December 1992) was an English-American composer and violinist who composed music for TV and film. He was prolific and worked mainly on composing with Emil Cadkin. Earlier on, he was a violinist and ...
(1907–1992) *
Howard Boatwright Howard Leake Boatwright Jr. (March 16, 1918 – February 20, 1999) was an American composer, violinist and musicologist. Biography Born in Newport News, Virginia, Boatwright studied the violin with Israel Feldman in Norfolk, Virginia, and made his ...
(1918–1999) *
Lola Bobesco Lola Violeta Ana-Maria Bobesco (9 August 1921– 4 September 2003) was a Belgian violinist of Romanian origin. Biography She was born in Craiova, Romania, and began her career as a child prodigy, giving her first recital there at the age of ...
(1921–2003) * Emanuel Borok (1944–2020) *
Willi Boskovsky Willibald Karl Boskovsky (16 June 1909 – 21 April 1991) was an Austrian violinist and conductor, best known as the long-standing conductor of the Vienna New Year's Concert from 1955 to 1979. Biography Boskovsky was born in Vienna, and joined th ...
(1909–1991) * Jules Boucherit (1877–1962) *
Norbert Brainin Norbert Brainin, OBE (12 March 1923 in Vienna – 10 April 2005 in London) was the first violinist of the Amadeus Quartet, one of the world's most highly regarded string quartets. Because of Brainin's Jewish origin, he was driven out of Vienna ...
(1923–2005) * Maggy Breittmayer (1888–1961) *
Robert Brink Robert Greenleaf Brink (Boston, 30 March 1924 - Boston, 24 October 2014) was an American violinist, conductor, and educator. He was a professor of music at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. He performed with the harpsichordi ...
(1924–2014) *
Jascha Brodsky Jascha Brodsky (June 6, 1907 – March 3, 1997) was a Russian-American violinist and teacher. He spent most of his career on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and co-founded the New School of Music, Philadelphia. Biogr ...
(1907–1997) *
Antonio Brosa Antonio Brosa (27 June 1894 – 23 March 1979) was a Spanish violinist, mostly active in the UK. Life Born in La Canonja in Catalonia, Brosa began studying the violin at the age of four with his father, making his public debut at the age of ...
(1894–1979) *
Alexander Brott Alexander Brott, , born Joël Brod (March 14, 1915April 1, 2005),
(1915–2005) *
Iona Brown Iona Brown, OBE, (7 January 19415 June 2004) was a British violinist and conductor. Early life and education Elizabeth Iona Brown was born in Salisbury and was educated at Cranborne Chase School, Dorset. Her parents, Antony and Fiona, were bo ...
(1941–2004) *
Anshel Brusilow Anshel Brusilow (August 14, 1928 – January 15, 2018) was an American violinist, conductor, and music educator at the collegiate level. Early life and education Brusilow was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1928, the son of Russian Jewish ...
(1928–2018) * Anker Buch (1940–2014) *
Gerda von Bülow Gerda Carola Frederikke von Bülow, often known as Gerda Bülow, (1904–1990) was a Danish violinist and music educator. In 1963, she founded the Institut for Nordisk Rytmik (Institute for Nordic Rhythm) which she ran until 1989. Biography Bülow ...
(1904–1990) *
Richard Burgin Richard Burgin (October 11, 1892 – April 29, 1981) was a Polish-American violinist, best known as associate conductor and the concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO). Early life Burgin was born in Siedlce, Poland, and first p ...
(1892–1981) * Grace Burrows (1893–1980) *
Adolf Busch Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch (8 August 1891 – 9 June 1952) was a German-Swiss violinist, conductor, and composer. Life and career Busch was born in Siegen in Westphalia. He studied at the Cologne Conservatory with Willy Hess and Bram Eldering. ...
(1891–1952) *
Guila Bustabo Guila Bustabo (February 25, 1916April 27, 2002) was a prominent American concert and recital violinist. Early life Guila Bustabo was born in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, in 1916 as Teressina Bustabo. She began playing the violin at age two. At age ...
(1916–2002) *
Alfredo Campoli Alfredo Campoli (20 October 1906 – 27 March 1991) was an Italian-born British violinist, often known simply as Campoli. He was noted for the beauty of the tone he produced from the violin. Campoli spent his childhood and much of his career in E ...
(1906–1991) * Mary Canberg (1918–2004) *
Roberto Cani Roberto Salvatore Cani (17 October 1967 – 9 April 2025) was an Italian classical violinist based in Los Angeles, where he was concertmaster of the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra from 2011. He gave concerts as a soloist and a chamber musician in E ...
(1967–2025) * Lucien Capet (1873–1928) * Norman Carol (1928–2024) *
Marius Casadesus Marius Casadesus (24 October 1892 – 13 October 1981) was a French violinist and composer. He was the brother of Henri Casadesus, uncle of the famed pianist Robert Casadesus, and grand-uncle to Jean Casadesus. Marius Casadesus achieved perhaps h ...
(1892–1981) *
Arthur Catterall Arthur Catterall (25 May 1883 – 28 November 1943) was an English concert violinist, orchestral leader and conductor, one of the best-known English classical violinists of the first half of the twentieth century. photo of Wills's cigarette car ...
(1883–1943) * Suzanne Chaigneau (1875–1946) *
Albert Chamberland Albert Chamberland (12 October 1886 – 4 April 1975) was a Canadian violinist, composer, conductor, music producer, and music educator. As a violinist he performed as a chamber musician with a number of ensembles, including the Beethoven Tr ...
(1886–1975) *
Corinne Chapelle Corinne Chapelle (May 5, 1976 – March 23, 2021) was a French-American violinist. She was born in California, her father was French and her mother Tunisian. She started her violin studies as a two-year-old and gave her first concert one year lat ...
(1976–2021) * Eugène Chartier (1893–1963) *
Alexander Chuhaldin Alexander Gregorovitch Chuhaldin () (27 August 1892 – 20 January 1951) was a Russian violinist, conducting, conductor, composer, and music educator who later emigrated to Canada. He spent his early career working in his native country but afte ...
(1892–1951) * Nicolas Chumachenco (1944–2020) *
Stephen Clapp Stephen Clapp (November 27, 1939 – January 26, 2014) was a violinist and Dean Emeritus of the Juilliard School. Education Clapp earned the B.M degree from the Oberlin Conservatory and the M.S. degree from the Juilliard School. He was a student ...
(1939–2014) *
Isidore Cohen ''For the composer born with this name, see Isidore de Lara'' Isidore Cohen (December 16, 1922 in Brooklyn, New York – June 23, 2005 in Bronx, New York) was a renowned chamber musician and violinist and member, at different times, of both the Ju ...
(1922–2005) *
Raymond Cohen Raymond HyamHis middle name has alternately been given as 'Hyam' (''Telegraph'' obituary) or 'Hyman' (''Independent'' obituary). Cohen (27 July 1919 – London, 28 January 2011) was an English classical violinist. Biography Early life and ed ...
(1919–2011) *
Alexander Cores Alexander Cores (1901-February 5, 1994) was a violinist and founder and first violin of the Dorian String Quartet. Born in Russia, Cores studied in Berlin and at the Juilliard School under Leopold Auer and Paul Kochanski. Cores was a member of th ...
(1901–1994) * Joey Corpus (1958–2017) *
Peter Cropper Peter Cropper (19 November 1945 – 29 May 2015) was a British violinist, leader of the Lindsay String Quartet, and founding artistic director of Music in the Round, a charitable organisation he founded in the 1980s to promote chamber music conc ...
(1945–2015) * Marcel Darrieux (1891–1989) *
Lukas David Lukas Florian David (5 June 1934 – 11 October 2021) was an Austrian classical violinist. Life David was born in Wels upper Austria in 1934 as the younger son of the composer and conductor Johann Nepomuk David (1895–1977) and his wife Ber ...
(1934–2021) *
Andrew Dawes Andrew Dawes (February 7, 1940 – October 30, 2022) was a Canadian violinist. He was known for his performances with the Orford String Quartet. Early life and education Dawes was born in High River, Alberta.Curtin Call: A Photographer's Candi ...
(1940–2022) *
Dorothy DeLay Dorothy DeLay (March 31, 1917 – March 24, 2002) was an American violin teacher, instructor, primarily at the Juilliard School, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Cincinnati. Life Dorothy DeLay was born on March 31, 1917, in Medic ...
(1917–2002) *
Édouard Dethier Edouard Charles Louis Dethier (25 August 1885 – 19 February 1962) was a Belgian classical violinist and teacher. He was a soloist with the New York Philharmonic and New York Symphony orchestras as well as extensively touring the United States ...
(1885–1962) *
Gioconda de Vito Gioconda de Vito (26 July 1907 – 14 October 1994) was an Italian-British classical violinist. (The dates 22 June 1907 and 24 October 1994 also appear in some sources.) Life De Vito was born, one of five children, in the town of Martina Fran ...
(1907–1994) *
Grigoraș Dinicu Grigoraș Ionică Dinicu (; April 3, 1889 – March 28, 1949) was a Romanian violin virtuoso and composer of Roma ethnicity. He is most famous for his often-played virtuoso violin showpiece " Hora staccato" (1906) and for making popular the tune ...
(1889–1949) *
Joseph Douglass Joseph Henry Douglass (July 3, 1871 – December 7, 1935) was an American concert violinist, the son of Charles Remond Douglass and Mary Elizabeth Murphy, and grandson of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Early life and influence Born in the Anaco ...
(1871–1935) * Pierre Doukan (1927–1995) * Rafael Druian (1923–2002) * Helena Dunicz-Niwińska (1915–2018) *
Samuel Dushkin Samuel Dushkin (December 13, 1891 – June 24, 1976) was an American violinist, composer, and pedagogue of Polish birth and Jewish origin. Dushkin was born in Suwałki, Poland. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, as well as with Leopold ...
(1891–1976) * Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (1898–1974) *
Renate Eggebrecht Renate Eggebrecht (August 12, 1944 – January 8, 2023) was a German violinist and record producer. Music training Born in Selent, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Eggebrecht received her first music lessons from her mother, before she was four ye ...
(1944–2023) *
Arnold Eidus Arnold Eidus (28 November 1922 – 3 June 2013) was a concert violinist and recording artist. Life Eidus's father (Harry Eidus, 1897–1984), a Jewish immigrant from Dvinsk, Latvia, was a violinist; his mother (Sadie "Sonia" Birkenfeld, 1901–1 ...
(1922–2013) *
Mischa Elman Mischa (Mikhail Saulovich) Elman (; January 20, 1891April 5, 1967) was a Russian-American violinist famed for his passionate style, beautiful tone, and impeccable artistry and musicality. Early life Moses or Moishe Elman was born to a Jewish fa ...
(1891–1967) *
George Enescu George Enescu (; – 4 May 1955), known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanians, Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, teacher and statesman. He is regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history. Biography En ...
(1881–1955) *
Ayla Erduran Ayla Erduran (22 August 1934 – 7 January 2025) was a Turkish classical violinist. She studied in Istanbul, Paris, the US and Moscow. A fifth place prize in the 1957 Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition opened an international career for her. S ...
(1934–2025) *
Broadus Erle Broadus Erle (March 21, 1918 – April 6, 1977) was an American violinist. Born in Chicago and reared in Toronto, Erle began his violin studies at age 3, taught by his mother, Brownie Earl. (She herself was a violin student of Broadus Farmer, ...
(1918–1977) *
Devy Erlih Devy Erlih (Paris, 5 November 1928 – Paris, 7 February 2012) was a French violinist and the 1955 winner of the Long-Thibaud competition. Background Erlih was born in France in 1928 to first-generation immigrants to France from Bessarabia (now M ...
(1928–2012) * Toshiya Eto (1927–2008) *
Adila Fachiri Adila Fachiri (26 February 188615 December 1962) was a Hungarian violinist who had an international career but made her home in England. She was the sister of the violinist Jelly d'Arányi, with whom she often played duets.British Library Sound & Vi ...
(1886–1962) *
Ilona Fehér Ilona Feher or Ilona Fehér (, ; 1 December 1901 – January 1988), was one of the representatives of the Hungarian school of violin playing, Hungarian Violin School whose greats include Joseph Böhm, Joseph Joachim, Jakob Grün, Leopold Auer, Ca ...
(1901–1988) * Lorand Fenyves (1918–2004) * Aldo Ferraresi (1902–1978) *
Christian Ferras Christian Ferras (17 June 1933 – 14 September 1982) was a French violinist. Early years Ferras was born at Le Touquet in 1933. He began studying the violin with his father. He entered the Conservatory of Nice, Conservatoire de Nice as a studen ...
(1933–1982) * Mikhail Fichtenholz (1920–1985) * Joan Field (1915–1988) *
António Fortunato de Figueiredo Maestro António Fortunato de Figueiredo ComSE (20 August 1903 – 1981) was a Goan conductor and violinist. He was India's first conductor of western classical music. Early life and education António Fortunato de Figueiredo was born in Nac ...
(1903–1981) * Rudolf Fitzner (1868–1934) *
Jorja Fleezanis Jorja Kay Fleezanis (March 19, 1952 – September 9, 2022) was an American violinist and the Henry A. Upper Chair at Indiana University. Fleezanis grew up in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Greek immigrants. A graduate of Cass Technical High S ...
(1952–2022) * Eugene Fodor (1950–2011) * Vera Fonaroff (1883–1962) *
Zino Francescatti René-Charles "Zino" Francescatti (9 August 1902 – 17 September 1991) was a French virtuoso violinist, renowned for his lyrical playing style. Career René-Charles "Zino" Francescatti was born in Marseille, to a musical family. Both parents wer ...
(1902–1991) *
Stefan Frenkel Stefan Frenkel (21 November 1902 – 1 March 1979),"Stefan Frenkel"
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(1902–1979) *
Walter Fried Walter Julius Fried (August 18, 1877 – August 18, 1925) was an American violinist and conductor. He served as both music director and as concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra between 1911 and 1925 and was also one of Dallas's leading v ...
(1877–1925) *
Erick Friedman Erick Friedman (16 August 1939 – 30 March 2004) was an American violinist. He performed around the world as guest soloist with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Chicago Symphony Orchest ...
(1939–2004) *
Joseph Fuchs Joseph Philip Fuchs (April 26, 1899 or 1900 – March 14, 1997) was one of the most important American violinists and teachers of the 20th century, and the brother of Lillian Fuchs. Born in New York, he graduated in 1918 from the Institute of Mu ...
(1899–1997) * Marjorie Fulton (1909–1962) *
Ivan Galamian Ivan Alexander Galamian (; April 14, 1981) was an Armenian-American violin teacher of the twentieth century who was the violin teacher of many seminal violin players including Itzhak Perlman and Kyung Wha Chung. Biography Galamian was born in ...
(1903–1981) *
Felix Galimir Felix Galimir (May 20, 1910, Vienna – November 10, 1999, New York) was an Austrian-born American violinist and music teacher. Born in a Sephardic Jewish family Vienna; his first language was Ladino. Allan Kozinn,"Felix Galimir, 89, a Violin ...
(1910–1999) * Samuel Gardner (1891–1984) *
John Georgiadis John Alexander Georgiadis (17 July 1939 – 5 January 2021) was a British violinist and conductor. He was twice Concert Leader with the London Symphony Orchestra during the 1960s and 70s, a member of both the ensembles London Virtuosi and the Ga ...
(1939–2021) * Robert Gerle (1924–2005) *
André Gertler André Gertler (26 July 1907 – 23 July 1998) was a Hungarian classical violinist and teacher. Professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (1940–1977), Professor at the Cologne Academy of Music (1954–1957), Professor at the College of Mus ...
(1907–1998) *
Stefi Geyer Stefi Geyer (June 28, 1888 in Budapest – December 11, 1956 in Zürich) was a Hungarian violinist who was considered one of the leading violinists of her generation. Biography Born in 1888 in Budapest, she was the daughter of Josef Geyer, a p ...
(1888–1956) *
Elizabeth Gilels Elizabeth Gilels (born Yelizaveta Grigoryevna Gilels; ; 30 September 1919 – 13 March 2008) was a Soviet violinist and professor. Biography Elizabeth Gilels was born on 30 September 1919 in Odessa into a Jewish family. Her father, Grigory ...
(1919–2008) *
Zinaida Gilels Zinaida Grigoryevna Gilels (; ; February 24, 1924 – May 7, 2000) was a Soviet and later an American violinist and pedagogue. Biography Zinaida Gilels was born in Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, to Grigory and Rosalia (née Diner) Gilels, a Jewish family. ...
(1924–2000) *
Bronislav Gimpel Bronislav Gimpel (January 29, 1911 – May 1, 1979)''The Penguin Dictionary of Musical Performers'', by Arthur Jacobs, Viking, 1990, was a Polish-American violinist, and teacher. He was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary, part of Polish Galic ...
(1911–1979) *
Josef Gingold Josef Gingold (; January 11, 1995) was a Russian and American classical violinist and teacher who lived most of his life in the United States. At the time of his death he was considered one of the most influential violin masters in the United St ...
(1909–1995) *
Ivry Gitlis Ivry Gitlis (;‎ 25 August 1922 – 24 December 2020) was an Israeli virtuoso violinist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. He performed with the world's top orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmoni ...
(1922–2020) *
Thelma Given Thelma Mary Given Verdi (March 9, 1896 — December 25, 1977) was an American violinist and child musical prodigy. Early life Thelma Mary Given was born in Columbus, Ohio, and raised in Decatur, Illinois, the daughter of James Frederick Given ...
(1896–1977) *
Carroll Glenn Elizabeth Carroll Glenn (October 28, 1918April 25, 1983) was an Americans, American violinist and music educator. Early years Glenn was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1918. She began studying violin under her mother’s guidance when she was f ...
(1918–1983) * Raymond Gniewek (1931–2021) *
Paul Godwin Paul Godwin (1902–1982) was a violinist and the leader of a popular German dance orchestra in the 1920s and 30s. Biography Paul Godwin (b. Pinchas Goldfein) was born on 28 March 1902 in Sosnowitz (Russian Empire; now Poland). Early recordin ...
(1902–1982) *
Szymon Goldberg Szymon Goldberg (1 June 1909 – 19 July 1993) was a Polish-born Jewish classical violinist and conductor, latterly an American. Born in Włocławek, Congress Poland, Goldberg played the violin as a child growing up in Warsaw. His first teacher ...
(1909–1993) *
Boris Goldstein Boris Emmanuilovich Goldstein (25 December 19228 November 1987, known by the diminutive Busya) was a Soviet violinist whose career was greatly hindered by the political situation in the USSR. As a young prodigy, he started violin studies in O ...
(1922–1987) *
Jascha Gopinko Jascha Gopinko (15 December 1891 – 4 July 1980), born in Ukraine and later resident in Australia, was a violinist, conductor and teacher of string instruments. Life Gopinko was born in 1891 near Mogilev in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empi ...
(1891–1980) *
Alexei Gorokhov Aleksey Nikolaevich Gorokhov (; ; February 11, 1927, Moscow - February 3, 1999) was a Soviet violinist who lived most of his professional life in Ukraine. He is considered a founder of the modern Kiev violin school.Benty, Y. (2008) Kiev honored me ...
(1927–1999) * Barry Griffiths (1939–2020) * Sidney Griller (1911–1993) * Harold Grimson (1882–1917) * Jessie Grimson (1873–1954) * Samuel Bonarius Grimson (1879–1955) *
Frederick Grinke Frederick Grinke CBE (8 August 1911 – 16 March 1987) was a Canadian-born violinist who had an international career as soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. He was known especially for his performances of 20th-century English music. Training ...
(1911–1987) *
Erich Gruenberg Erich Gruenberg (12 October 19247 August 2020) was an Austrian-born British violinist and teacher. Following studies in Israel, he was a principal violinist of major orchestras, including the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the London ...
(1924–2020) *
Arthur Grumiaux Baron Arthur Grumiaux (; 21 March 1921 – 16 October 1986) was a Belgian violinist, considered by some to have been "one of the few truly great violin virtuosi of the twentieth century". He has been noted for having a "consistently beautiful t ...
(1921–1986) * Daniel Guilet (1899–1990) * Boris Gutnikov (1931–1986) *
Ida Haendel Ida Haendel, (15 December 1928 - or 1923, the exact year remains uncertain 1 July 2020) was a world renowned Polish-British-Canadian violinist. Haendel was a child prodigy, her career spanning over seven decades. She also became an influentia ...
(1928–2020) * Betty-Jean Hagen (1930–2016) *
Heimo Haitto Heimo Verneri Haitto (22 May 1925 – 9 June 1999) was a Finnish-American classical violinist who played in several U.S. symphony orchestras. A child prodigy, he was characterized as “Finland’s Jascha Heifetz”. Career Heimo Haitto was bo ...
(1925–1999) *
Marie Hall Marie Pauline Hall (8 April 1884 – 11 November 1956) was an English violinist. Biography Hall was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. She received her first lessons from her father, who was a harpist in the orchestra of the Carl Rosa O ...
(1884–1956) *
Sandor Harmati Sandor Harmati (9 July 18924 April 1936) was a Hungarian-American violinist, conductor and composer, best known for his song " Bluebird of Happiness" written in 1934 for Jan Peerce. Biography Sandor Harmati (''Harmati Sándor'' in Hungarian ortho ...
(1892–1936) * Cecilia Hansen (1897–1989) *
Alice Harnoncourt Alice Harnoncourt (; 26 September 1930 – 20 July 2022) was an Austrian classical violinist. She was a pioneer in the movement of historically informed performance, founding with her husband Nikolaus Harnoncourt the Concentus Musicus Wien ensem ...
(1930–2022) * Margaret Harrison (1899–1995) * May Harrison (1890–1959) *
Sidney Harth Sidney Harth (5 October 1925 in Cleveland – 15 February 2011 in Pittsburgh) was an American violinist and conductor. Education Harth was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music and studied with Joseph Fuchs, ...
(1925–2011) *
Josef Hassid Josef Hassid () (28 December 19237 November 1950) was a Polish violinist. Childhood Born on 28 December 1923 to Jewish parents in Suwałki, Poland, as Joseph or Józef Chasyd, he was the second youngest of four children. He lost his mother when ...
(1923–1950) *
Kató Havas Kató Havas (5 November 1920 – 31 December 2018) was a Hungarian classical violinist and a teacher of both the violin and viola who developed the "New Approach to violin playing" to help prevent physical injuries and eliminate stage fright relate ...
(1920–2018) *
Donald Hazelwood Donald Leslie Grant Hazelwood Officer of the Order of Australia, AO Officer of the Order of the British Empire, OBE (1 March 1930 – 8 March 2025) was an Australian violinist and concertmaster. Background His first wife Anne Menzies was a clar ...
(1930–2025) *
Yaëla Hertz Yaëla Hertz Berkson (; April 1930 – May 30, 2014) was an Israeli-Canadian teacher and violinist, who was concertmaster of the McGill Chamber Orchestra from 1959 to 2000 and performed with her brother Talmon and pianist Dale Bartlett in the Her ...
(1930–2014) *
Julius Hegyi Julius Hegyi (February 2, 1923 – January 1, 2007) was an American conductor and violinist. He spent his lifetime building orchestras, founding chamber music groups and instilling a passion for music in young and old alike. His belief in con ...
(1923–2007) *
Jascha Heifetz Jascha Heifetz (; December 10, 1987) was a Russian-American violinist, widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time. Born in Vilnius, he was soon recognized as a child prodigy and was trained in the Russian classical violin styl ...
(1901–1987) * Philippe Hirschhorn (1946–1996) * Rosa Hochmann (1875–1955) *
Henry Holst Henry Holst (25 July 1899 – 19 October 1991) was a Danish violinist. In his early career he was leader of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Wilhelm Furtwängler. From the 1930s to the mid-1950s he was based in England, as a soloist and teac ...
(1899–1991) *
Bronisław Huberman Bronisław Huberman (19 December 1882 – 16 June 1947) was a Polish violinist. He was known for his individualistic interpretations and was praised for his tone color, expressiveness, and flexibility. The '' Gibson ex-Huberman Stradivariu ...
(1882–1947) *
Emanuel Hurwitz Emanuel Hurwitz (7 May 1919 – 19 November 2006) was a British violinist. He was born in London to parents of Russian-Jewish ancestry. He started playing the violin when he was five years old, and took up a scholarship at the Royal Academy of ...
(1919–2006) *
Liana Isakadze Liana Alexandres asuli Isakadze (2 August 19465 July 2024) was a Georgian violinist and conductor. A child prodigy, she was supported and trained by David Oistrakh. She won the 1970 International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition, which brought h ...
(1946–2024) *
Jacques Israelievitch Jacques Israelievitch, CM (May 6, 1948 – September 5, 2015) was a French violinist, and one of Canada's foremost chamber musicians. Born in Cannes, France, at 11 years old he was the youngest graduate in the history of the Le Mans Conservatory ...
(1948–2015) * Sascha Jacobsen (1895–1972) *
Max Jaffa Max Jaffa OBE (28 December 1911 – 30 July 1991) was a British light orchestral violinist and bandleader. He is best remembered as the leader of the Palm Court Orchestra and trio, with Jack Byfield (piano) and Reginald Kilbey (cello), which bro ...
(1911–1991) *
Charles Jaffe Charles Jaffé (Jaffe) (, Dubroŭna, Russian Empire – 12 July 1941, Brooklyn, USA) was a chess master and chess author born in the Russian Empire. Early life Jaffé was born in the small town of Dubroŭna (now in Vitebsk Region, Belarus), ...
(1917–2011) *
Piotr Janowski Piotr Janowski (5 February 1951 – 6 December 2008) was a Polish violinist and first Polish winner of the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition. Janowski was born in Grudziądz, Poland. At the age of 16 in 1967, he won the V International Henry ...
(1951–2008) * Philip S. Johnson (1953–2011) *
Oleg Kagan Oleg Moiseyevich Kagan (Russian: Оле́г Моисе́евич Кага́н; 22 November 1946 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russian SFSR – 15 July 1990, Munich, West Germany) was a Soviet violinist, known for his chamber collaborations with such musicia ...
(1946–1990) *
Carmel Kaine Carmel Kaine (22 March 193721 April 2013) was an Australian classical violinist. She was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales and studied at the New South Wales Conservatorium, graduating at age 17 with the prize for the most outstanding studen ...
(1937–2013) *
Suna Kan Suna Kan (21 October 1936 – 11 June 2023) was a Turkish violinist who studied in France and appeared internationally. She was a soloist and concert master of the Presidential Symphony Orchestra for 44 years. She was professor of violin at th ...
(1936–2023) *
Bela Katona Bela Katona (21 April 1920 – 5 February 2018) was a Hungarian violinist. Life and career Katona was born in Pozsony (now Bratislava). At the age of 19, he entered the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest to study with Ede Zathureczky, formerly a ...
(1920–2018) *
Louis Kaufman Louis Kaufman (May 10, 1905 – February 9, 1994) was an American violinist. He played on the soundtrack of as many as 500 movies and made over 100 musical recordings. He is also credited with reviving the music of Antonio Vivaldi with his re ...
(1905–1994) * Franciszek Kempa (1903–1953) * Daisy Kennedy (1893–1981) * Eda Kersey (1904–1944) *
Felix Khuner Felix Khuner (1906 – June 10, 1991) was the second violinist of the Kolisch Quartet. He joined the quartet, then the Wien Quartet, in 1926 when the quartet needed a new second violinist. Khuner was reluctant, but when he visited Rudolf Kolisch ...
(1906–1991) * Valery Klimov (1931–2022) *
Daniel Kobialka Daniel Kobialka (November 19, 1943 – January 18, 2021) was an American violinist, composer, and music entrepreneur. Biography Kobialka studied violin at the Hartt College of Music. Kobialka was the principal second violinist with the San Fran ...
(1943–2021) *
Paul Kochanski Paul Kochanski (born Paweł Kochański; 30 August 1887 – 12 January 1934) was a Polish violinist, composer and arranger active in the United States. Training and early career Paweł Kochański was born in Odesa to Polish-Jewish parents ...
(1887–1934) *
Dmitri Kogan Dmitri Pavlovich Kogan (; October 27, 1978 – August 29, 2017) was a Russian violinist and an Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation. Early life and career Dmitri Kogan was born in Moscow, USSR, into a famous musical dynasty. His gra ...
(1978–2017) *
Leonid Kogan Leonid Borisovich Kogan (; ; 14 November 1924 – 17 December 1982) was a preeminent Soviet violinist during the 20th century. Many consider him to be among the greatest violinists of the 20th century. In particular, he is considered to have be ...
(1924–1982) *
Varujan Kojian Varujan Kojian (March 12, 1935; Beirut, LebanonMarch 4, 1993; Santa Barbara, California) was an Armenian-American violinist and conductor from Beirut, Lebanon. He studied violin at the Conservatoire de Paris awarded the Premier Prix in 1956, and su ...
(1935–1993) * Felix Kok (1924–2010) *
Adolph Koldofsky Adolph Koldofsky (13 September 1905 – 8 April 1951) was a London-born violinist, living for most of his career in Canada and later in America. He was an orchestral player and member of chamber music ensembles; he commissioned and gave the premier ...
(1905–1951) *
Rudolf Kolisch Rudolf Kolisch (July 20, 1896 – August 1, 1978) was a Viennese violinist and leader of string quartets, including the Kolisch Quartet and the Pro Arte Quartet. Early life and education Kolisch was born in Klamm, Schottwien, Lower Austria and ...
(1896–1978) *
Péter Komlós Péter Komlós (25 October 1935 – 2 May 2017) was a Hungarian violinist, known particularly as the founder of the Bartók String Quartet. Life Péter Komlós was born in Budapest in October 1935, and studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music ...
(1935–2017) *
Anton Kontra Anton Kontra (born 29 March 1932 in Tomajmonostora, Hungary; died 8 May 2020 in Malmö, Sweden) was a Hungarian-Danish violinist, concertmaster and leading soloist in the Scandinavian countries. Career Born into a Romani family, Anton Kontra b ...
(1932–2020) * Hugo Kortschak (1884–1957) *
Takehisa Kosugi was a Japanese composer, violinist and artist associated with the Fluxus movement. Early life Kosugi was born in Tokyo in 1938, and studied musicology at the Tokyo University of the Arts, graduating in 1962. Early musical influences Kosug ...
(1938–2018) *
Boris Koutzen Boris Koutzen (1 April 1901 – 10 December 1966) was a Russian-American violinist composer and music educator. Biography Koutzen was born in Uman, Southern Russia. He began composing at the age of six and studied violin with his father. In 191 ...
(1901–1966) *
Dénes Kovács Dénes Kovács (18 April 1930 – 11 or 14 February 2005) was a Hungarian classical violinist and academic teacher, described as "pre-eminent among Hungarian violinists". He won the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition in 1955. In his care ...
(1930–2005) * Tosca Kramer (1903–1976) * Herman Krebbers (1923–2018) *
Fritz Kreisler Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler (February 2, 1875 – January 29, 1962) was an Austrian-born American violinist and composer. One of the most noted violin masters of his day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing, with marked por ...
(1875–1962) *
Jan Kubelík Jan Kubelík (5 July 18805 December 1940) was a Czech violinist and composer. Biography He was born in Michle (now part of Prague). His father, a gardener by occupation, was an amateur violinist. He taught his two sons the violin and after di ...
(1880–1940) *
Georg Kulenkampff Alwin Georg Kulenkampff-Post (23 January 1898 – 4 October 1948) was a German virtuoso violinist. One of the most popular German concert violinists of the 1930s and 1940s, he was considered one of the finest violinists of the 20th century. Kule ...
(1898–1948) *
Jaakko Kuusisto Jaakko Ilkka Kuusisto (17 January 1974 – 23 February 2022) was a Finnish violinist, composer, and conductor. Education After initial studies under Géza Szilvay and , Kuusisto went on to win the 1989 , place 4th in the International Jean S ...
(1974–2022) * Helen Kwalwasser (1927–2017) *
Fredell Lack Fredell Lack (February 19, 1922 – August 20, 2017) was an American violinist. Noted as a concert soloist, recording artist, chamber musician, and teacher, she was the C. W. Moores Distinguished Professor of Violin at the Moores School of ...
(1922–2017) *
Jeanne Lamon Jeanne Lamon, (August 14, 1949 – June 20, 2021) was an American-Canadian violinist and conductor. Biography Lamon was born as Jean Susan Lamon in the Queens borough of New York City and was raised in Larchmont, New York. Her parents were Isaac ...
(1949–2021) * Isidor Lateiner (1930–2005) * Remo Lauricella (1912–2003) *
Susanne Lautenbacher Susanne Lautenbacher (19 April 1932 – 15 September 2020) was a German violinist. She studied violin with the Munich-based violin pedagogue Karl Freund (first violin of the Freund Quartet) and later with Henryk Szeryng. She was a prizewinner in t ...
(1932–2020) * Arthur Leavins (1917–1995) *
Everett Lee Everett Astor Lee (August 31, 1916 – January 12, 2022) was an American symphonic conductor, opera music director, violinist and music scholar. He was the first African American to conduct a Broadway theatre, Broadway musical, the first to "con ...
(1916–2022) * Sylvia Lent (1903–1972) * Ida Levin (1963–2016) *
Walter Levin Walter Levin (December 6, 1924 – August 4, 2017) was the founder, first violinist, and guiding spirit of the LaSalle Quartet (active 1947–1987), which was known for its championing of contemporary composers, for its recordings of the Second Vi ...
(1924–2017) *
Nona Liddell Nona Patricia Liddell (9 June 1927 – 13 April 2017) was a British violinist. She was a soloist, leader of chamber music ensembles, and a teacher. For many years she was leader of the London Sinfonietta. Early life She was born in Ealing, Lon ...
(1927–2017) * Maria Lidka (1914–2013) *
Ernest Llewellyn Ernest Victor Llewellyn CBE (21 June 191512 July 1982) was an Australian violinist, concertmaster, violist, conductor and musical administrator. He was the founding director of the Canberra School of Music and is commemorated by Llewellyn Hall, ...
(1915–1982) * Lea Luboshutz (1885–1965) * Sergiu Luca (1943–2010) *
Alberto Lysy Alberto Lysy (February 11, 1935 – December 30, 2009) was a prestigious Argentine violinist and conductor of Ukrainian ancestry. The violin gifted to him was a very old Stradivarius. Among his friends were Charlie Chaplin and family whose Swiss ...
(1935–2009) *
Francis MacMillen Francis Rea MacMillen (14 October 1885, in Marietta, Ohio, Marietta, Ohio – 14 July 1973, in Lausanne) was an American violinist. At the age of seven, he began studying at Chicago College of Music, Chicago Musical College, where his teacher wa ...
(1885–1973) * Klaus Maetzl (1941–2016) * Hugh Maguire (1926–2013) *
Paul Makanowitzky Paul Makanowitzky (June 20, 1920 Stockholm – February 24, 1998 Freeport, Maine) was an American violinist, and violin teacher. Life He studied with Ivan Galamian, and Jacques Thibaud. He made his debut in 1929, in Salle Gaveau, Paris, and Ne ...
(1920–1998) * Juan Manén (1883–1971) *
Robert Mann Robert Nathaniel Mann (July 19, 1920 – January 1, 2018) was a violinist, composer, conductor, and founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet, as well as a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music. Mann, the first violinist at Jui ...
(1920–2018) *
Kevork Mardirossian Kevork Mardirossian (December 9, 1954 – June 11, 2024) was an American violinist. He was the James H. Rudy Professor of Music at Indiana University. Mardirossian served as the concertmaster of the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra and the Baton Ro ...
(1954–2024) *
Henri Marteau Henri Marteau (31 March 1874 – 3 October 1934) was a French violinist and composer. Life and career Marteau's debut was made when he was 10 at a concert given by the Vienna Philharmonic Society conducted by Hans Richter. A tour through Switze ...
(1874–1934) *
Lucien Martin Lucien Martin (30 May 1908 – 29 October 1950) was a Canadian violinist, conductor, and composer. Only one of his compositions was published, the art song ''La Chanson des belles'', which was performed by Jeanne Desjardins in its premiere on th ...
(1908–1950) * Johanna Martzy (1924–1979) * Leonora Jackson McKim (1879–1969) *
Ivor McMahon Ivor McMahon (1924–1972) was an English violinist. He played with notable orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra and the English Chamber Orchestra and is best known for playing second violin in the Melos Ensemble. Career In 1 ...
(1924–1972) *
Alfred Eugene Megerlin Alfred Eugene Megerlin (June 30, 1880 – February 22, 1941) was a violinist. He was the concertmaster and first violinist of the New York Philharmonic. Biography Megerlin was born in Antwerp, Belgium and trained at the Royal Conservatory of Brus ...
(1880–1941) *
Wilhelm Melcher Wilhelm Melcher (April 5, 1940 – March 5, 2005) was a German violinist. He was the founder and leader of the Melos Quartet. Biography Melcher was born in Hamburg, and studied there and in Rome. In 1962, he won the International Chamber Mus ...
(1940–2005) *
Isolde Menges Isolde Marie Menges (16 May 189313 January 1976) was an accomplished English violinist who was most active in the first part of the 20th century. Life The daughter of George Menges, a native of Germany, she was born in Sussex, England. Her p ...
(1893–1976) *
Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin (22 April 191612 March 1999), was an American-born British violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. ...
(1916–1999) *
Geoffrey Michaels Geoffrey Michaels (19 June 1944 – 17 February 2024) was an Australian violinist and violist. A child prodigy in Australia during the 1950s, he performed and taught primarily in the United States. Early life and education Born in 1944 in Weste ...
(1944–2024) *
Roberto Michelucci Roberto Michelucci (29 October 1922 1 November 2010) was an Italian classical violinist. He obtained his diploma in violin in the courses with Gioacchino Maglioni (1891–1966) at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Firenze. In 1950 he obta ...
(1922–2010) * Stoika Milanova (1945–2024) *
Martin Milner Martin Sam Milner (December 28, 1931 – September 6, 2015) was an American actor and radio host. He is best known for his performances on two television series: '' Route 66'', which aired on CBS from 1960 to 1964, and '' Adam-12'', which ...
(1928–2000) *
Nathan Milstein Nathan Mironovich Milstein ( – December 21, 1992) was a Russian and American virtuoso violinist. Widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time, Milstein was known for his interpretations of Bach's solo violin works and for wo ...
(1903–1992) *
Mischa Mischakoff Mischa Mischakoff (April 16, 1895 – February 1, 1981, born Mykhailo Isaakovych Fishberg) was an outstanding violin, violinist who, as a concertmaster, led many of America's greatest orchestras from the 1920s to the 1960s. Mischakoff was born ...
(1895–1981) *
Emil Młynarski Emil Szymon Młynarski (; 18 July 18705 April 1935) was a Polish conducting, conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue. Life Młynarski was born in Kibarty (Kybartai), Russian Empire, now in Lithuania. He studied violin with Leopold Auer and ...
(1870–1935) * Cyril Monk (1882–1970) *
Alma Moodie Alma Mary Templeton Moodie (12 September 18987 March 1943) was an Australian violinist who established an excellent reputation in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. She was regarded as being among the foremost female violinists during the inter-war ...
(1898–1943) *
Lydia Mordkovitch Lydia Mordkovitch (née Shtimerman; 30 April 1944 – 9 December 2014) was a Russian violinist. Lydia was born in Saratov, Russia, on 30 April 1944. She returned with her parents to Kishinev after the war. In 1960, she moved to Odesa, where sh ...
(1944–2014) * Erika Morini (1904–1995) * Alfonso Mosesti (1924–2018) * Konstantin Mostras (1886–1965) * Peter Mountain (1923–2013) *
Clarence Myerscough Clarence Myerscough (born London, 27 October 1930; died London, 8 October 2000) was a British violinist. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music (where in 1952 he won the Rowsby Woof Prize) and the Paris Conservatoire under Frederick Grinke ...
(1930–2000) *
David Nadien David Nadien (March 12, 1926 – May 28, 2014) was an American virtuoso violinist and violin teacher. He was the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic from 1966 to 1970. His playing style, characterized by fast vibrato, audible shifting noise ...
(1926–2014) *
Yfrah Neaman Professor Yfrah Neaman, OBE FGSM (13 February 1923 – 4 January 2003), was a concert violinist and teacher. Early life Neaman was born in Sidon, Lebanon. He lived in Tel Aviv until 1932 when he moved to Paris to study at the Paris Conserv ...
(1923–2003) * Sheila Nelson (1936–2020) *
Ginette Neveu Ginette Neveu (11 August 191928 October 1949) was a French violinist. At the age of 15, she beat David Oistrakh to win the Polish Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition. She made several concert tours and was considered to be 'one of the finest vi ...
(1919–1949) *
Siegmund Nissel Siegmund Walter "Sigi" Nissel (3 January 1922 – 21 May 2008) was an Austrian-born British violinist who played second violin in the Amadeus Quartet and served as its administrator. Sigi Nissel was born in Munich to a Jewish family from Vienn ...
(1922–2008) *
Ricardo Odnoposoff Ricardo Odnoposoff (February 24, 1914 – October 26, 2004) was a Jewish Argentine-Austrian-American violinist of the 20th century. He was a former concertmaster of the Vienna State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic. He was dismissed on September 1, 19 ...
(1914–2004) *
David Oistrakh David Fyodorovich Oistrakh (; – 24 October 1974) was a Soviet Russian violinist, List of violists, violist, and Conducting, conductor. He was also Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, People's Artist of the USSR (1953), and Laureate of the ...
(1908–1974) *
Igor Oistrakh Igor Davidovich Oistrakh (; April 1931 – 14 August 2021) was a Soviet and Russian violinist. He was described by ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' as "noted for his lean, modernist interpretations". Life and career Oistrakh was born in Odessa, to ...
(1931–2021) * Edgar Ortenberg (1900–1996) *
Trond Øyen Trond Øyen (December 26, 1929 – July 12, 1999) was a Norwegians, Norwegian violinist from Vardø (town), Vardø. He was recognized as one of Norway's leading violinists of his time. After growing up in Mosjøen, Øyen studied in Oslo under Alf ...
(1929–1999) *
Igor Ozim Igor Ozim (9 May 1931 – 23 March 2024) was a Slovenian classical violinist and Pedagogy, pedagogue. He was based in Salzburg, Austria. Life and career Igor Ozim was born in 1931 in Ljubljana. He came from a musical family: both parents played ...
(1931–2024) *
Michaela Paetsch Michaela Paetsch Neftel (born Michaela Modjeska Paetsch; November 12, 1961 – January 20, 2023) was an American violinist. She was the first American woman to have recorded all 24 Paganini Caprices for solo violin. Winner of the first prize ...
(1961–2023) * Priscilla Paetsch (1931–2017) *
Margaret Pardee Margaret Pardee Butterly (May 10, 1920 – January 26, 2016) was an American violinist and violin teacher. Life and career Pardee was born in 1920 and grew up in Valdosta, Georgia. She graduated from the Juilliard School where she studied with ...
(1920–2016) *
Manoug Parikian Manoug Parikian (15 September 1920 – 24 December 1987) was a British concert violinist and violin professor. Early life Parikian was born in Mersin to Armenian parents. He studied in London. Career Parikian made his solo début in 1947 and le ...
(1920–1987) *
Kathleen Parlow Kathleen Parlow (September 20, 1890 – August 19, 1963) was a violinist known for her outstanding technique, which earned her the nickname "The lady of the golden bow". Although she left Canada at the age of four and did not permanently return ...
(1890–1963) *
György Pauk György Pauk (26 October 1936 – 18 November 2024) was a Hungarian violinist, chamber musician and music pedagogue. Biography Pauk was born on 26 October 1936 in Budapest, Hungary, the son of Imre Pauk and Magda (nee Lustig). His father was a ...
(1936–2024) *
Edith Peinemann Edith Peinemann (3 March 1937 – 25 February 2023) was an internationally recognized German violinist and professor of violin. At age nineteen she won the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, and made her U.S. debut as soloist in 1962 ...
(1937–2023) * Barbara Penny (1929–2007) *
Louis Persinger Louis Persinger (11 February 1887, Rochester, Illinois31 December 1966, New York, New York) was an American violinist, pianist and professor of violin. Persinger had early lessons in Colorado, appearing in public by the age of 12. His main studie ...
(1887–1966) * Victor Pikayzen (1933–2023) *
Maximilian Pilzer Maximilian Pilzer (February 26, 1890 – May 30, 1958) was a Conducting, conductor and violinist. He was concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic orchestra from 1915 to 1917. During the years of 1926, 1948 to 1949, and ...
(1890–1958) *
Alfred Pochon Alfred Pochon (30 July 1878 – 26 February 1959) was a Swiss musician. Biography He was born on 30 July 1878 in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. It was in his hometown Yverdon that at the age of seven, Pochon first began learning the violi ...
(1878–1959) *
Max Pollikoff Max Pollikoff (1904 - 1984) was an American classical music violinist who created the ''Music in Our Time'' Series at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. The Series commissioned and premiered hundreds of new works. In 1923, when Pollikoff was 19, he ...
(1904–1984) * Enrico Polo (1868–1953) * Miron Polyakin (1895–1941) *
Katia Popov Katia Popov (; 3 March 1965 – 18 May 2018), born in Bulgaria and later living in California, was a violinist, playing as soloist, in chamber music and in orchestras; she was concertmaster of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Life She was born in S ...
(1965–2018) * Ruth Posselt (1914–2007) *
Jean Pougnet Jean Pougnet (20 July 1907 – 14 July 1968) was a Mauritius, Mauritian-born concert violinist and orchestra concertmaster, leader, of British nationality, who was highly regarded in both the lighter and more serious classical repertoire during t ...
(1907–1968) *
Gaston Poulet Gaston Poulet (10 April 1892 – 14 April 1974) was a French violinist and conductor. He played an important part in the diffusion of the contemporary music of the first half of the 20th century. His son Gérard Poulet, born in 1938, is also a vio ...
(1892–1974) *
Albert Pratz Albert Pratz (13 May 1914 – 28 March 1995) was a Canadian violinist, conductor, composer, and music educator. He was awarded the Canadian Centennial Medal in 1967. His compositional output was modest and consists of only instrumental works. ...
(1914–1995) *
Mikhail Press Mikhail (Moisej) Isaakovich Press, also known as Michael Press, (; 29 August 1871, in Vilnius, Lithuania – 22 December 1938, in Lansing, Michigan) was a Russian-American violinist, conductor and music educator. Press began studying violin wit ...
(1871–1938) *
Váša Příhoda Váša Příhoda (22 August 1900Nicolas Slonimsky, ed. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th ed.26 July 1960) was a Czechoslovakia, Czech List of classical violinists, violinist and minor composer. Considered a Niccolò Paganini, Pagan ...
(1900–1960) * Simon Pullman (1890–1942) *
Manuel Quiroga Manuel Quiroga may refer to: * Manuel Quiroga (composer) * Manuel Quiroga (violinist) Manuel Quiroga Losada (15 April 189219 April 1961) was a Spaniards, Spanish violinist and composer. He was described by music critics as "the finest successor ...
(1892–1961) *
Michael Rabin Michael Rabin ( ; May 2, 1936January 19, 1972) was an American violinist. He has been described as "one of the most talented and tragic violin virtuosi of his generation". Biography Michael Rabin was of Romanian-Jewish descent. His mother Jeann ...
(1936–1972) *
Rosemary Rapaport Rosemary Rapaport (29 March 1918 in St Albans – 8 June 2011 in Olney) was a violinist and music teacher who founded the Purcell School for musically gifted children. Early years Nancy Rosemary Peace Rapaport was born into a Rabbinic family ...
(1918–2011) * Adolf Rebner (1876–1967) * Ossy Renardy (1920–1953) *
Florizel von Reuter Florizel von Reuter (21 January 1890 – 10 May 1985) was an American-born violinist and composer, a child prodigy who went on to an adult career, mainly in Germany, as distinguished soloist and teacher of violin. He was also a psychic and Mediums ...
(1890–1985) *
Ruggiero Ricci Ruggiero Ricci (24 July 1918 – 5 August 2012) was an American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Paganini. Biography He was born in San Bruno, California, the son of Italian immigrants who first named him Woodr ...
(1918–2012) *
Amadeo Roldán Amadeo Roldán y Gardes (Paris, 12 June 1900 – Havana, 7 March 1939) was a Cuban composer and violinist. Roldán was born in Paris to a Cuban mulatta and a Spanish father. It was his mother, the pianist Albertina Gardes, who initiated her ch ...
(1900–1939) * Paul Rolland (1911–1978) *
Aaron Rosand Aaron Rosand (born Aaron Rosen; March 15, 1927 – July 9, 2019) was an American classical violinist and violin pedagogue. Life and career Born in Hammond, Indiana, he studied with Leon Sametini at the Chicago Musical College and with Efrem ...
(1927–2019) *
Alma Rosé Alma Maria Rosé (3 November 1906 – 4/5 April 1944) was an Austrian and Jewish violinist. Her uncle was the composer Gustav Mahler. She was deported by the Nazis to the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. There, for 10 months, she directed ...
(1906–1944) *
Arnold Rosé Arnold Josef Rosé (born ''Rosenblum''; 24 October 1863 – 25 August 1946) was a Romanian-born Austrian Jewish violinist. He was leader of the Vienna Philharmonic for over half a century. He worked closely with Johannes Brahms and Gustav Mahler. ...
(1863–1946) *
Eric Rosenblith Eric Rosenblith (December 11, 1920 – December 16, 2010) was an Austrian-born American violinist. He was the former concertmaster of the Indianapolis Indianapolis ( ), colloquially known as Indy, is the List of capitals in the United Sta ...
(1920–2010) *
Max Rostal Max Rostal (7 July 1905 – 6 August 1991) was a violinist and a viola player. He was Austrian-born, but later took British citizenship. Biography Max Rostal was born in Cieszyn to a Jewish merchant family. As a child prodigy, he started studyin ...
(1905–1991) * Jack Rothstein (1925–2001) *
Olga Rudge Olga Rudge (April 13, 1895 – March 15, 1996) was an American-born concert violinist, who had a long-term relationship with the poet Ezra Pound, by whom she had a daughter, Mary. A gifted concert violinist of international repute, her consid ...
(1895–1996) *
Albert Sammons Albert Edward Sammons CBE (23 February 188624 August 1957) was an English violinist, composer and later violin teacher. Almost self-taught on the violin, he had a wide repertoire as both chamber musician and soloist, although his reputation re ...
(1886–1957) *
Eugene Sârbu Eugen Sîrbu or Sârbu, known professionally as Eugene Sârbu (6 September 1950 – 21 July 2024), was a Romanian classical violinist. He had an international career as a soloist, recitalist and conductor (from the violin). In 1978, he won both ...
(1950–2024) * David Sarser (1921–2013) *
Egon Sassmannshaus Egon Sassmannshaus (19 March 1928, in Wuppertal – 7 August 2010, in Munich) was a violinist and string pedagogue. His Early Start on the Violin was first published in German in 1976, followed by three more volumes, and is widely used. The wo ...
(1928–2010) * Hansheinz Schneeberger (1926–2019) *
Alexander Schneider Abraham Alexander Schneider (October 21, 1908 – February 2, 1993) was a violinist, conductor and educator. Born to a Jewish family in Vilnius, Lithuania, he later moved to the United States as a member of the Budapest String Quartet. Early ...
(1908–1993) * Wolfgang Schneiderhan (1915–2002) * Dina Schneidermann (1931–2016) * Jaap Schröder (1925–2020) *
Michel Schwalbé Michel Schwalbé (27 October 1919 – 8 October 2012) was a French violinist of Polish origin. Biography Born in Radom (Poland), Schwalbé studied in his youth with Moritz Frenkel, then continued his studies in Paris and worked with Georges Enes ...
(1919–2012) *
Toscha Seidel Toscha Seidel (November 17, 1899 – November 15, 1962) was a Russian violinist Biography Seidel was born in Odessa on November 17, 1899, to a Jewish family. A student of Leopold Auer in St. Petersburg, Seidel became known for a lush, romantic to ...
(1899–1962) *
Berl Senofsky Berl Senofsky (April 19, 1926 − June 21, 2002) was an American classical violinist and teacher, active during the twentieth century. Biography Senofsky was born in Philadelphia in 1926. His parents were violinists and had moved to the United S ...
(1926–2002) * Samuel Sherman (1871–1948) *
Nelli Shkolnikova Nelli Efimovna Shkolnikova (; 8 July 19282 February 2010) was a Soviet violinist who spent many years teaching in Australia and the United States. She was born in Zolotonosha, Ukrainian SSR. At the age of three, she moved with her family to Mosc ...
(1928–2010) * Sadah Shuchari (1906–2001) *
Oscar Shumsky Oscar Shumsky (March 23, 1917 in Philadelphia – July 24, 2000 in Rye, New York) was an American violinist and conductor. Biography Oscar Shumsky was born to Russian-Jewish parents. He started learning the violin at the age of three, and mad ...
(1917–2000) *
Joseph Silverstein Joseph Harry Silverstein (March 21, 1932 – November 21, 2015) was an American violinist and conductor. Known to family, friends and colleagues as "Joey", Silverstein was born in Detroit. As a youth, Silverstein studied with his father, Bernard ...
(1932–2015) *
Jacques Singer Jacques Singer (May 9, 1910 – August 11, 1980) was an American virtuoso violinist, symphony orchestra conductor, and music educator who flourished from about 1925 until a few months before his death in 1980. Career Education Jakob Singer was ...
(1910–1980) * Julian Sitkovetsky (1925–1958) * Semyon Snitkovsky (1933–1981) *
Marie Soldat-Roeger Marie Soldat-Roeger (born in Graz (Styria), March 25, 1863, died in Graz (Styria), September 30, 1955) was a violin virtuoso active in orchestral and chamber music in the Vienna of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A pupil of violin master ...
(1863–1955) * Denise Soriano-Boucherit (1916–2006) *
Leonard Sorkin Leonard Sorkin (January 12, 1916 – June 7, 1985) was an American violinist. Sorkin was born in Chicago in 1916. He received violin training from Mischa Mischakoff. At the age of 18, he joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where he remaine ...
(1916–1985) *
Eduard Sõrmus Eduard Sõrmus (9 July 1878 – 16 August 1940) was an early 20th-century Estonian violinist. He was sometimes known as the Red Violinist (der rote Geiger). Biography Childhood Eduard Sõrmus was born in the village of Kõivu, Luunja Parish, Ta ...
(1878–1940) *
Albert Spalding Albert Goodwill Spalding (September 2, 1849 – September 9, 1915) was an American pitcher, manager, and executive in the early years of professional baseball, and the co-founder of the Spalding sporting goods company. He was born and raised i ...
(1883–1953) * Tossy Spivakovsky (1906–1998) *
Christian Stadelmann Christian Stadelmann (1959 – 26 July 2019) was a German violinist. For many years he was leader of the second violin section of the Berlin Philharmonic. Life Stadelmann was born in Berlin; he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts with Tho ...
(1959–2019) *
Ethel Stark Ethel Stark, (25 August 1910 – 16 February 2012) was a Canadian violinist and conductor. Born in Montreal, Quebec, she studied at the McGill Conservatory of Music with Alfred De Sève and Alfred Whitehead. From 1928 to 1934, she studied at ...
(1910–2012) * William Starr (1923–2020) * Benjamin Steinberg (1915–1974) * Albert Stern (1937–2024) * Hellmut Stern (1928–2020) *
Isaac Stern Isaac Stern (July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was an American violinist. Born in Ukraine, Stern moved to the United States when he was 14 months old. Stern performed both nationally and internationally, notably touring the Soviet Union a ...
(1920–2001) *
Pyotr Stolyarsky Pyotr Solomonovich Stolyarsky (; 29 April 1944) was a Soviet violinist and eminent pedagogue, honored as People's Artist of UkSSR (Ukrainian SSR) (1939). He was a member of CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) from 1939. Biography St ...
(1871–1944) * Josef Suk (1929–2011) * Harold Sumberg (1905–1994) *
Suwa Nejiko (23 January 1920 – 6 March 2012) archived at was a Japanese violinist who earned fame as a child prodigy during the inter-war period. In early Shōwa era, Shōwa Empire of Japan, Japan she was dubbed . Although her career was mostly confined ...
(1920–2012) *
Zoltán Székely Zoltán Székely ( Hungarian: Székely Zoltán; 8 December 1903 in Kocs, Hungary – 5 October 2001 in Banff, Canada) was a Hungarian violinist and composer. Biography Székely studied violin with Jenő Hubay and composition with Zoltán Kod ...
(1903–2001) *
Henryk Szeryng Henryk Bolesław Szeryng (usually pronounced ''HEN-r-ik SHEH-r-in-g'') (22 September 19183 March 1988) was a Polish- Mexican violinist. Early years He was born in Warsaw, Poland on 22 September 1918 into a wealthy Jewish family. The surname ...
(1918–1988) *
Joseph Szigeti Joseph Szigeti (, ; 5 September 189219 February 1973) was a Hungarian violinist. Born into a musical family, he spent his early childhood in a small town in Transylvania. He quickly proved himself to be a child prodigy on the violin, and move ...
(1892–1973) * Gerhard Taschner (1922–1976) *
Vilmos Tátrai Vilmos Tátrai (7 October 1912 – 2 February 1999) was a Hungarian classical violinist and the founder of the Tátrai Quartet. Life Tátrai was born in Kispest, now 19th district of Budapest. A professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, he ...
(1912–1999) *
Henri Temianka Henri Temianka (19 November 19067 November 1992) was a virtuoso violinist, conductor, author and music educator. Early years Henri Temianka was born in Greenock, Scotland, to parents who were Polish emigrants. He studied violin with Carel Blit ...
(1906–1992) *
Jean Ter-Merguerian Jean Ter-Merguerian (; Marseille, 5 October 1935 – Marseille, 29 September 2015) was a French-Armenian virtuoso violinist and violin pedagogue. Biography Jean Ter-Merguerian has got the first prize for violin at the Marseille Conservatoire at t ...
(1935–2015) *
Jacques Thibaud Jacques Thibaud (; 27 September 18801 September 1953) was a French violinist. Biography Thibaud was born in Bordeaux and studied the violin with his father before entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of thirteen. In 1896 he jointly won th ...
(1880–1953) *
Felice Togni Filitz Charles Antonius "Felice" Togni (Zwolle, 3 October 1871 – Haarlem, 31 October 1929) was a Dutch violinist and violin pedagogue. Life Togni was the eldest son of Anton Albertus Felix Simonius Togni and Anna Maria Hubertina de France, ...
(1871–1929) *
Roman Totenberg Roman Totenberg (January 1, 1911 – May 8, 2012) was a Polish-American violinist and educator. A child prodigy, he lived in Poland, Moscow, Berlin, and Paris, before formally immigrating to the U.S. in 1938, at age 27. He performed and taught ...
(1911–2012) *
Andor Toth Andor John Toth (June 16, 1925 – November 28, 2006) was an American classical violinist, conductor and educator with a musical career spanning over six decades. Toth played his violin on the World War II battlefields of Aachen, Germany; performe ...
(1925–2006) * Charles Treger (1935–2023) *
Anahit Tsitsikian Anahit Tsitsikian (; born Leningrad, August 26, 1926; death Yerevan, May 2, 1999) was an Armenians, Armenian female violinist. She toured around the world through more than 100 cities during the Armenian SSR, Soviet times; she taught at the Ye ...
(1926–1999) * Masuko Ushioda (1942–2013) *
Carlo Van Neste Carlo Van Neste (1 April 1914 in Antwerp – 12 July 1992 in Brussels) was a Belgian violinist The following lists of violinists are available: * List of classical violinists * List of contemporary classical violinists * List of jazz violinis ...
(1914–1992) * Tibor Varga (1921–2003) *
Franz von Vecsey Franz von Vecsey (born Ferenc Vecsey; 23 March 18935 April 1935) was a Hungarian violinist and composer, who became a well-known virtuoso in Europe through the early 20th century. He made his first public debut at the age of 10. An accomplished ...
(1893–1935) *
Sándor Végh Sándor Végh (17 May 19127 January 1997) was a Hungarian, later French, violinist and conductor. He was best known as one of the great chamber music violinists of the twentieth century. Education Sándor Végh was born in 1912 in Kolozsvár, ...
(1912–1997) *
Ion Voicu Ion Voicu (; October 8, 1923 – February 24, 1997) was a Romanian violinist and orchestral conductor of Romani ethnicity. In 1969 he founded the award-winning Bucharest Chamber Orchestra, which is now conducted by his son Mădălin Voicu. Life ...
(1923–1997) * Edith Volckaert (1949–1992) * Imre Waldbauer (1892–1952) * Winifred Merrill Warren (1898–1990) * John Waterhouse (1877–1970) * William Waterhouse (1917–2003) * Clarence Cameron White (1880–1960) * Elise Fellows White (1873–1953) * Camilla Wicks (1928–2020) * Margaret Jones Wiles (1911–2000) * Maurice Wilk (1922–1963) *
Wanda Wiłkomirska Wanda Wiłkomirska (11 January 1929 – 1 May 2018) was a Polish violinist and academic teacher. She was known for both the classical repertoire and for her interpretation of 20th-century music, having received two Order of Merit of the Republic o ...
(1929–2018) * Trevor Williams (1929–2007) * Harold Wippler (1928–2022) * Endre Wolf (1913–2011) *
Josef Wolfsthal Josef Wolfsthal (12 June 1899 – 3 February 1931), born as Josef Wolfthal, was an Austrian violinist and a professor in Germany's capital Berlin. He was born into a musical family in Vienna. It was of Galician origin. His father and his older b ...
(1899–1931) * Rowsby Woof (1883–1943) *
Cedric Wright George Cedric Wright (April 13, 18891959) was an American violinist and a wilderness photographer of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), High Sierra. He was Ansel Adams's mentor and best friend for decades, and accompanied Adams when three of his most fa ...
(1889–1959) *
Arthur Wynne Arthur Wynne (; June 22, 1871January 14, 1945) was the Liverpool-born inventor of the modern crossword puzzle. Early life Arthur Wynne was born on June 22, 1871, in Liverpool, England, and lived on Edge Lane for a time. His father was the edito ...
(1871–1945) * Yuri Yankelevich (1909–1973) * Florian ZaBach (1918–2006) * Renato Zanettovich (1921–2021) *
Ede Zathureczky Ede Zathureczky (Igló, 24 August 1903 – Bloomington, 31 May 1959) was a Hungarian violin virtuoso and pedagogue. Life and career Ede Zathureczky was born in Igló, Kingdom of Hungary (now Spišská Nová Ves in Slovakia). His teacher was the ...
(1903–1959) *
Zvi Zeitlin Zvi Zeitlin (21 February 19222 May 2012) was a Russian-born American classical violinist and teacher. Born in Dubroŭna, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (now in Belarus), the son of Jewish parents: a doctor and amateur violinist, Zeitlin w ...
(1922–2012) *
Grigori Zhislin Grigori Yefimovich Zhislin (Russian Григорий Ефимович Жислин; 14 May 1945 in Leningrad – 2 May 2017 in Berlin) was a Russian violinist and pedagogue. He studied with Yuri Yankelevich at the Moscow Conservatory. At the age ...
(1945–2017) *
Efrem Zimbalist Efrem Zimbalist (April 21 .S. April 9 1889 – February 22, 1985) was a Russian and American concert violinist, composer, conducting, conductor and director of the Curtis Institute of Music. Early life Efrem Zimbalist was born on April 9, 1 ...
(1889–1985) *
Olive Zorian Olive Nevart Zorian (16 March 1916 in Manchester – 17 May 1965 in London) was an English classical violinist. She was the youngest daughter of Samuel Hovannes Zorian and Ada Mary Zorian. Samuel was an Armenian hosiery manufacturer and music ...
(1916–1965) *
Dénes Zsigmondy Dénes Zsigmondy (9 April 1922 – 15 February 2014) was a Hungarian classical violinist and music educator. He was born Dénes Liedemann in Budapest, but changed his name to Zsigmondy, his paternal grandmother's surname, as it was more Hungari ...
(1922–2014) *
Paul Zukofsky Paul Zukofsky (October 22, 1943 – June 6, 2017) was an American violinist and conductor known for his work in the field of contemporary classical music. Career Born in Brooklyn, New York, Paul Zukofsky was the only child of the American objecti ...
(1943–2017)


Comedic

As a supplement to the lists above, the following is a list of violinists who were known for playing the instrument badly in support of comedy routines. *
Jack Benny Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky; February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American entertainer who evolved from a modest success as a violinist on the vaudeville circuit to one of the leading entertainers of the twentieth century with ...
(1894–1974) *
Larry Fine Louis Feinberg (October 4, 1902 – January 24, 1975), better known by his stage name Larry Fine, was an American actor, comedian and musician. He is best known as a member of the comedy act the Three Stooges and was often called "The Middle St ...
(1902–1975) *
Henny Youngman Henry "Henny" Youngman (March 16, 1906 – February 24, 1998) was an English-born American comedian and musician famous for his mastery of the "one-line joke, one-liner", his best known being "Take my wife... please". In a time when many ...
(1906–1998)


Contemporary

* See
List of contemporary classical violinists This is a list of notable contemporary classical violinists. For the names of notable violinists of all classical music eras see List of classical violinists. Classical violinists A * Rochelle Abramson * Irene Abrigo (born 1988) * Salvatore ...


Female

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List of female violinists This is a chronological list of female classical professional concert violinists. Those without a known date of birth are listed separately in alphabetical order. Sortable list Total listed: Sortable list for those without known birthdate T ...


Further reading

* ''The Art of Violin Playing'' Books 1 & 2,
Carl Flesch Carl Flesch (born Károly Flesch, 9 October 1873 – 14 November 1944) was a Hungarian classical violinist and teacher. Flesch’s compendium ''Scale System'' is a staple of violin pedagogy. Life and career Flesch was born in Moson (now part of ...
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Eric Rosenblith Eric Rosenblith (December 11, 1920 – December 16, 2010) was an Austrian-born American violinist. He was the former concertmaster of the Indianapolis Indianapolis ( ), colloquially known as Indy, is the List of capitals in the United Sta ...
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Carl Fischer Music Carl Fischer Music is an American sheet music publisher. It was founded in 1872 in the East Village neighborhood of New York City as a musical instrument repair shop. Except for a brief period in the early 1930s, it has always been the family- ...
and * ''The Armenian Bowing Art'', Anahit Tsitsikian,Published by “Edit Print” print house Yerevan, 2004.(in Russian) * ''The Art of Violin Playing'', Daniel Melsa, Foulsham & Co. Ltd. * ''Biographical Notice of Nicolo Paganini'', by F.J. Fétis (c. 1880), Schott & Co. * ''The Book of the Violin'', edited by Dominic Gill (1984),
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. * ''The Devil's Box-Masters of Southern Fiddling'' by Charles Wolfe (1997), Country Music Foundation Press. * ''An Encyclopedia of the Violin'', by Alberto Bachmann (1965/1990), Da Capo Press. * ''The Great Violinists'', by Margaret Campbell (1980/2004), Robson Books. * '' Paganini-The Genoese'', by G.I.C. de Courcy (1957), University of Oklahoma Press * ''
Stuff Smith Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith (August 14, 1909 – September 25, 1967), better known as Stuff Smith, was an American jazz violinist. He is well known for the song " If You're a Viper" (the original title was "You'se a Viper"). Smith was, al ...
-Pure at Heart'', edited by Anthony Barnett & Eva Løgager (1991), Allardyce Barnett Publishers. * ''Szigeti on the Violin'', by
Joseph Szigeti Joseph Szigeti (, ; 5 September 189219 February 1973) was a Hungarian violinist. Born into a musical family, he spent his early childhood in a small town in Transylvania. He quickly proved himself to be a child prodigy on the violin, and move ...
(1969/1979),
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Tartini Giuseppe Tartini (8 April 1692 – 26 February 1770) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era born in Pirano in the Republic of Venice (now Piran, Slovenia). Tartini was a prolific composer, composing over a hundred pieces for the ...
-His Life and Times'', by Prof. Dr. Lev Ginsburg (1968), Paganiniana Publications Inc. * ''Unfinished Journey'',
Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin (22 April 191612 March 1999), was an American-born British violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. ...
(1976), Macdonald and Jane's. * ''The Violin'', by
Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin (22 April 191612 March 1999), was an American-born British violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. ...
(1996), Flammarion.
''The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument''
by Schoenbaum, David (2012). New York, New York : W.W. Norton & Company. * ''The Violin and I'', by Kato Havas (1968/1975), Bosworth & Co. Ltd. * ''Violin Playing-As I Teach it'', by
Leopold Auer Leopold von Auer (; June 7, 1845July 15, 1930) was a Hungarian violinist, academic, conductor, composer, and instructor. Many of his students went on to become prominent concert performers and teachers. Early life and career Auer was born in ...
(1921/1960), Gerarld Duckworth & Co Ltd. * ''Violins & Violinists'', by Franz Farga (1950), Rockliff Publishing Corporation Ltd. * '' Ysaÿe'', by Prof. Dr. Lev Ginsburg (1980), Paganiniana Publications Inc.


External links


Legendary Violinists
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Violinists and Violists on the Web
Alphabetical listings of web pages on string players, past and present. {{DEFAULTSORT:Classical violinists Classical cs:Seznam houslistů it:Violinisti nl:Lijst van beroemde violisten