List of violists

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

Notable violists

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

H Veronika Hagen (b. 1963) Harutyun Hanesyan (1911–1987), composer John Harbison (b. 1938), composer Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), composer Donald Heins (1878–1949), violinist, conductor, composer Willy Hess (1859–1939), violinist Raphael Hillyer (1914–2010) Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), composer Alfred Charles Hobday (1870–1942) Manfred Honeck (b. 1958), conductor Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (1954–2006), mezzo-soprano Ketil Hvoslef (b. 1939) I Nobuko Imai (b. 1943) Yuko Inoue J Hanoch Jacoby (1909–1990), composer Leroy Jenkins (1932–2007) Otto Joachim (1910–2010), composer Matthew Jones (b. 1974), violinist K Jiří Kabeš (b. 1946), singer, songwriter Thomas Kakuska (1940–2005) Jan Karlin (b. 1954), producer, administrator Jurgis Karnavičius (1884–1941), composer Gilad Karni Kim Kashkashian (b. 1952) Milton Katims (1909–2006), conductor Martha Strongin Katz (b. 1942) Hugo Kauder (1888–1972), composer, violinist Nigel Keay (b. 1955), composer Nigel Kennedy (b. 1956), violinist Volker David Kirchner (b. 1942), composer Dmitri Klebanov (1907–1987) Paul Klengel (1854–1935), violinist, pianist Garth Knox (b. 1956) František Kočvara (1730–1791), composer Tosca Kramer (1903–1976) Alison Krauss (b. 1971) Emil Kreuz (1867–1932) Milan Křížek (b. 1926), composer Theodore Kuchar (b. 1960), conductor Ferdinand Küchler (1867–1937), violinist, composer Michael Kugel (b. 1946) Sigiswald Kuijken (b. 1944), violinist, conductor L Michelle LaCourse Théophile Laforge (1863–1918) Édouard Lalo (1823–1892), composer Jaime Laredo (b. 1941), violinist Steve Larson Victor Legley (1915–1994), composer Harold Levin (b. 1956) Avri Levitan (b. 1973) Jodi Levitz Teng Li Ingvar Lidholm (b. 1921), composer Lim Soon Lee (b. 1957), conductor Ernest Llewellyn (1915–1982), violinist, conductor James Lowe (b. 1976), conductor Pál Lukács (1919–1981) M Jef Maes (1905–1996), composer Sergey Malov (b. 1983), violinist Mat Maneri (b. 1969), composer, violinist Michael Mann (1919–1977), violinist Jethro Marks Carlo Martelli (b. 1935), composer Uri Mayer (b. 1946), conductor Eduard Melkus (b. 1928), violinist Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), composer Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), violinist John Metcalfe (b. 1964) Miroslav Miletić (b. 1925), composer Shlomo Mintz (b. 1957), violinist Alexander Mishnaevski Roberto Molinelli (b. 1963), composer, conductor Pierre Monteux (1875–1964), conductor Arie Van de Moortel (1918–1976), composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), composer Pedro Saglimbeni Muñoz (b. 1966) Janee Munroe (1923–2006) Henry Myerscough (? –2007) N Philipp Naegele (1928–2011), violinist Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan (b. 1960) Oskar Nedbal (1874–1930), composer Paul Neubauer (b. 1962) Václav Neumann (1920–1995), conductor Maria Newman (b. 1962), violinist, composer Casimir Ney (1801–1877) Nokuthula Ngwenyama (b. 1976) O Heiichiro Ohyama (b. 1947) David Oistrakh (1908–1974), violinist Martin Outram P Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840), composer, violinist Johannes Palaschko (1877–1932), violinist, composer Úna Palliser, vocalist, violinist Ian Parrott (1916–2012), composer Harry Partch (1901–1974), composer Ödön Pártos (1907–1977), composer Joseph de Pasquale (1919–2015) Clara Petrozzi (b. 1965), violinist, composer Allan Pettersson (1911–1980), composer Cynthia Phelps (b. 1961) Robert Pikler (1909–1984), violinist Ashan Pillai (b. 1969) Enrico Polo (1868–1953), violinist Jocelyn Pook (b. 1960), composer Diemut Poppen (b. 1960) Ari Poutiainen (b. 1972) Lawrence Power (b. 1977) William Presser (1916–2004), composer, violinist Milton Preves (1909–2000) Joseph Primavera (1926–2006), conductor William Primrose (1904–1982)

Q Karl Traugott Queisser (1800–1846) R Julian Rachlin (b. 1974), violinist Mary Ramsey (b. 1963), violinist, singer, songwriter Wilhelm Ramsøe (1837–1895), composer, conductor, violinist Émile Pierre Ratez (1851–1934), composer Mary Ruth Ray (1956–2013) Adolf Rebner (1876–1967) Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936), composer Sophia Reuter (b. 1971), violinist Frederick Riddle (1912–1995) Joaquín Riquelme García (b. 1983) Karen Ritscher Hermann Ritter (1849–1926) Carol Rodland Jean Rogister (1879–1964), composer Harmut Rohde (b. 1966) Alessandro Rolla (1757–1841), composer Antonio Rolla (1798–1837), violinist, composer Paul Rolland (1911–1978) Max Rostal (1905–1991), violinist Simon Rowland-Jones (b. 1950) Miklós Rózsa (1907–1995), composer Thomas Ryan (1827–1903) Maxim Rysanov (b. 1978) S Luigi Sagrati (1921–2008) Philip Sainton (1891–1967), composer, conductor Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio (b. 1960), violinist Guido Santórsola (1904–1994), composer Hermann Scherchen (1891–1966), conductor Peter Schidlof (1922–1987) Ervin Schiffer (b. 1932) Franz Schubert (1797–1828), composer Joseph Schubert (1754–1837), composer, violinist David Schwartz (1916–2013) Rudolf Schwarz (1905–1994), conductor Albert Seitz (1872–1937), composer Tibor Serly (1901–1978), composer William Shield (1748–1829) Oscar Shumsky (1917–2000), violinist, conductor Paul Silverthorne (b. 1951) Nadia Sirota Hans Sitt (1850–1922) Scott Slapin (b. 1974), composer Kay Slocum Peter Slowik (b. 1957) Anton Stamitz (1750–c.1800), composer Carl Stamitz (1745–1801), composer Johann Stamitz (1717–1757), composer Scott St. John (b. 1969) Simon Streatfeild (b. 1929), conductor Jennifer Stumm Josef Suk (1929–2011), violinist Jean Sulem (b. 1959) Louis Svećenski (1862–1926) Gusztáv Szerémi (1877–1952), composer Lionel Tertis T Robert Talbot (1893–1954), conductor, composer, violinist Václav Talich (1883–1961), conductor, violinist Antoine Tamestit (b. 1979) Will Taylor (b. 1968) Anahit Tsitsikian (1926–1999), violinist, musicologist Jan Tausinger (1921–1980), composer, conductor Yuri Temirkanov (b. 1938), conductor Mela Tenenbaum, violinist Lionel Tertis (1876–1975) Marcus Thompson (b. 1946) Katia Tiutiunnik (b. 1967), composer Lars Anders Tomter (b. 1959) Giuseppe Torelli (1658–1709), pedagogue, composer Walter Trampler (1915–1997) Michael Tree (b. 1934) Karen Tuttle (1920–2010) U Åke Uddén (1903–1987), composer, conductor Alfred Uhl (1909–1992) Chrétien Urhan (1790–1845) V Roland Vamos (b. 1930) Léon van Hout (1864–1945) Emanuel Vardi (1915–2011) Maxim Vengerov (b. 1974), violinist Robert Vernon (b. 1949) Maurice Vieux (1884–1951) Ladislav Vycpálek (1882–1969), composer, violinist W Louis van Waefelghem (1840–1908) Ernst Wallfisch (1920–1979) Geraldine Walther (b. 1950) Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739–1813) Melia Watras John Webb (b. 1969), composer Hieronymus Weickmann (1825–1895) Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1880), violinist Emanuel Wirth (1842–1923), violinist Mark Wood X Pierre-Henri Xuereb (b. 1959) Y Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931), violinist Z Bernard Zaslav (b. 1926) Wen Xiao Zheng (b. 1981) Grigori Zhislin (b. 1945), violinist Lev Zhurbin (b. 1978), composer Tabea Zimmermann (b. 1966) Đuro Živković (b. 1975), composer, violinist León Zuckert (1904–1992), composer, violinist Pinchas Zukerman (b. 1948), violinist