- List of violists
This is a list of noted
viola players.Notable violists
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*Julia Rebekka Adler (b.1978)
* Sir Hugh Allen (1869–1946), conductor
*Atar Arad B
*Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), composer
*Michael Balling (1886–1925)
*Rudolf Barshai (b.1924), conductor
*Yuri Bashmet (b.1953)
*Cathy Basrak (b.1977)
*Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858–1921)
*Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), composer
*Mitrofan Belyayev (1836–1904)
* František Benda (1709–1786), composer
* Jiří Antonín Benda (1722–1795), composer
*Yehonatan Berick (b.1968)
*Franz Beyer (b.1922)
*Alexandre Pierre François Boëly (1785–1858)
*Vadim Borisovsky (1900–1972)
*Frank Bridge (1879–1941), composer
*Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), composer
*Peter Bucknell (b.1977)C
*John Cale (b.1942)
*Bartolomeo Campagnoli (1751–1827), composer, violinist
*David Aaron Carpenter (b.1986)
*Henri Casadesus (1879–1947)
*Gérard Caussé (b.1948)
*Roger Chase (b.1953)
*Franck Chevalier (b.1973)
* Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979), composer
*Eric Coates (1886–1957), composer
*Paul Coletti (b.1959)
*Wayne Crouse (1924–2000)D
*Steven Dann (b.1953)
*Gyula Dávid (1913–1977)
*Tania Davis (b.1975)
*Brett Dean (b.1961)
* Roberto Díaz (b.1960)
*Viacheslav Dinerchtein
*Napoleon Distelmans
*Paul Doktor (1917–1989)
*Karen Dreyfus
*Charles Dutoit (b.1936), conductor
*Lawrence Dutton (b.1954)
*Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904), composerE
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*Ralph Farris (b.1970)
*Cecil Forsyth (1870–1941), composer
*Lillian Fuchs (1901–1995)G
*Carlo Maria Giulini (1914–2005), conductor
*Bruno Giuranna
*Roland Glassl
*Rosemary Glyde (1948–1994), composer
*Rivka Golani (b.1946)H
*Veronika Hagen
*John Harbison (b.1938), composer
*Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), composer
*Raphael Hillyer (b. 1914)
*Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), composerI
*Nobuko Imai (b.1943)
*Yuko Inoue J
* Leroy Jenkins (1932–2007)
* Otto Joachim (b.1910), composerK
*Thomas Kakuska (1940–2005)
*Gilad Karni
*Kim Kashkashian (b.1952)
*Milton Katims (1909–2006), conductor
*Martha Strongin Katz
*Nigel Keay (b.1955), composer
*Nigel Kennedy (b.1956), violinist
*Michael Klotz (b.1978)
*Tosca Kramer (1903–1976)
*Michael Kugel (b.1946)L
*Jaime Laredo (b.1941), violinist
*Steve Larson
*Lim Soon Lee
*Jodi Levitz M
*Jethro Marks
*Uri Mayer (b.1946), conductor
*Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), composer
*Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), violinist
*John Metcalfe (b.1964)
*Miroslav Miletic (b.1925), composer
*Shlomo Mintz (b.1957), violinist
*Pierre Monteux (1875–1964), conductor
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), composer
*Pedro Saglimbeni Muñoz
*Henry Myerscough N
*Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan (b.1960)
*Oskar Nedbal (1874–1930), composer
*Paul Neubauer (b.1962)
*Václav Neumann (1920–1995), conductor
*Casimir Ney (1801–1877)O
*Heiichiro Ohyama
*David Oistrakh (1908–1974), violinistP
*Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840), composer, violinist
*Ödön Pártos (1907–1977), composer
*Joseph de Pasquale (b.1919)
*Allan Pettersson (1911–1980), composer
*Cynthia Phelps
*Jocelyn Pook (b.1960), composer
*Diemut Poppen
*Ari Poutiainen (b.1972)
*Milton Preves (1909–2000)
*William Primrose (1904–1982)Q
*Karl Traugott Queisser (b. 1800)R
*Julian Rachlin (b.1974), violinist
*Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936), composer
*Paul Reynolds (b.1973)
*Karen Ritscher
*Carol Rodland
*Alessandro Rolla (1757–1841), composer
*Paul Rolland (1911–1977)
*Max Rostal (1905–1991), violinist
*Simon Rowland-Jones (b.1950)
*Miklós Rózsa (1907–1995), composerS
*Hermann Scherchen (1891–1966), conductor
*Peter Schidlof (1922–1987)
*Franz Schubert (1797–1828), composer
*Joseph Schubert (1754–1837), composer, violinist
*Tibor Serly (1901–1978), composer
*William Shield (1748–1829)
*Hans Sitt (1850–1922)
*Scott Slapin (b.1974)
*Peter Slowik
*Anton Stamitz (1750–c.1800), composer
*Carl Stamitz (1745–1801), composer
*Johann Stamitz (1717–1757), composer
*Scott St. John (b.1969)
*Jennifer Stumm
* Josef Suk (b.1929), violinist
*Jean Sulem (b.1959)T
*Antoine Tamestit
*Lionel Tertis (1876–1975)
*Marcus Thompson
* Alexandru Todicescu
*Giuseppe Torelli (1658–1709), pedagogue, composer
*Walter Trampler (1915–1997)
*Michael Tree (b.1934)
*Karen Tuttle (b.1920)
*Michael Twomey (b.1963)U
*Chrétien Urhan (1790–1845)V
* Roland Vamos (b.1930)
* Jan Křtitel Vaňhal (1739–1813)
*Maxim Vengerov (b.1974), violinist
*Robert Vernon (b.1949)W
*Geraldine Walther
*Melia Watras
* John Webb (b.1969), composer
*Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1880), violinistX
Y
*Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931), violinistZ
*Lev Zhurbin (b.1978), composer
*Tabea Zimmermann (b.1966)
*Pinchas Zukerman (b.1948), violinist
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