Notable Alumni of University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna [Sorted List]

1. Carl Millöcker

1842-1899 (aged 57)

composer chapelmaster conductor flautist

Carl Joseph Millöcker ((1842-04-29)29 April 1842 – (1899-12-31)31 December 1899), was an Austrian composer of operettas and a conductor.

2. Michiko Tanaka

1913-1988 (aged 75)

film actor singer stage actor

Michiko Tanaka was a Japanese singer and actress.

3. Milka Ternina

1863-1941 (aged 78)

university teacher vocalist opera singer

Milka Trnina was a Croatian dramatic soprano who enjoyed a high reputation in major American and European opera houses. Praised by audiences and music critics alike for the electrifying force of her acting and the excellence of her singing in both German and Italian works, her career was curtailed at its peak in 1906 by a medical condition which paralyzed...

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4. Heinrich von Herzogenberg

1843-1900 (aged 57)

composition teacher conductor musicographer composer

Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg was an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family.

5. Lovro von Matačić

1899-1985 (aged 86)

composer conductor

Lovro von Matačić was a Croatian conductor and composer.

6. Rainer Küchl

1950-. (aged 76)

classical violinist university teacher

Rainer Küchl is an Austrian violinist who was born in Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Austria, 25 August 1950.

7. Ali Rahbari

1948-. (aged 78)

composer conductor

Ali Rahbari (Persian: علی (الکساندر) رهبری; also Romanized as "Alī Rahbarī", Persian pronunciation: [æˈliː ɾæhbæˈɾiː]; born 1948) is an Iranian composer and conductor who has worked with more than 120 European orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic and the Mariinsky Opera.

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8. Robert Fuchs

1847-1927 (aged 80)

music educator conductor composer

Robert Fuchs was an Austrian composer and music teacher. As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in his lifetime.

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9. Marcel Prawy

1911-2003 (aged 92)

music critic author dramaturge university teacher

Marcel Prawy was an Austrian dramaturg, opera connoisseur and opera critic. He was born into a Jewish Austro-Hungarian noble family and studied law, but his life belonged to the opera. He became secretary of the tenor Jan Kiepura and they both emigrated to the United States when persecution of the Austrian Jews became unbearable in the late 1930s.

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10. Leo Fall

1873-1925 (aged 52)

bandleader conductor composer

Leopold Fall was an Austrian Kapellmeister and composer of operettas.

11. Nobu Kōda

1870-1946 (aged 76)

violinist pianist composer

Nobu Kōda 幸田延 was a Japanese composer, violinist, and music teacher. She was one of the first Japanese women to study music overseas. She studied at the New England Conservatory. She later studied in Europe. She was the sister of Kōda Rohan.

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12. Marie Kreutzer

1977-. (aged 49)

film director screenwriter

Marie Kreutzer is an Austrian film director and screenwriter.

13. Friedrich Cerha

1926-2023 (aged 97)

composer conductor instrumentalist music educator

Friedrich Cerha was an Austrian composer, conductor, and academic teacher. His ensemble die reihe in Vienna was instrumental in spreading contemporary music in Austria. Cerha composed three literary operas, beginning with Baal, based on Brecht's play, which was premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 1981. He is best known for completing Alban Berg's opera Lulu by orchestrating its unfinished third...

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14. Lili Kraus

1903-1986 (aged 83)

composer classical pianist

Lili Kraus was a Hungarian-born pianist.

15. Erkki Melartin

1875-1937 (aged 62)

exlibrist conductor composer

Erkki Gustaf Melartin was a Finnish composer, conductor, and teacher of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods. Melartin is generally considered to be one of Finland's most significant national Romantic composers, although his music—then and now—largely has been overshadowed by that of his contemporary, Jean Sibelius, the country's most famous composer. The core of Melartin's oeuvre consists of a set of...

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16. Hans Swarowsky

1899-1975 (aged 76)

university teacher music educator conductor

Hans Swarowsky was an Austrian conductor of Hungarian birth.

17. Alois Hába

1893-1973 (aged 80)

music theorist pedagogue non-fiction writer university teacher composer

Alois Hába was a Czech composer, music theorist and teacher. He belongs to the important discoverers in modern classical music, and to the major composers of microtonal music, especially using the quarter-tone scale, though he used others such as sixth-tones (e.g., in the 5th, 10th and 11th String Quartets), fifth-tones (Sixteenth String Quartet), and twelfth-tones. From the other microtonal conceptions,...

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18. Luise Ullrich

1910-1985 (aged 75)

film actor writer stage actor

Luise Ullrich was an Austrian actress.

19. Ahmad Pejman

1935-2025 (aged 90)

classical composer

Ahmad Pejman, also spelled as Ahmad Pezhman, was an Iranian contemporary classical composer who resided in the United States. Pejman was notable for his works in opera, symphonies and music for film.

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20. Maria Andergast

1912-1995 (aged 83)

stage actor film actor

Maria Andergast was a German actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1934 and 1974.

21. Carl Michael Ziehrer

1843-1922 (aged 79)

composer conductor

Carl Michael Ziehrer was an Austrian composer. In his lifetime, he was one of the fiercest rivals of the Strauss family; most notably Johann Strauss II and Eduard Strauss.

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22. James Allen Gähres

1943-. (aged 83)

conductor music director

James Allen Gähres is an American conductor with an international career, based in Germany.

23. Herbert Berghof

1909-1990 (aged 81)

film actor theatrical director stage actor

Herbert Berghof was an American actor, director and acting teacher.

24. Christiane Lutz

1980-. (aged 46)

Christiane Lutz is a German opera director.

25. Ádám Fischer

1949-. (aged 77)

director conductor

Ádám Fischer is a Hungarian conductor. He is the general music director of the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, chief conductor of the Danish Chamber Orchestra, and principal conductor of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra.

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26. Arthur Nikisch

1855-1922 (aged 67)

composer pianist conductor university teacher

Arthur Nikisch was a Hungarian conductor who performed internationally, holding posts in Boston, London, Leipzig and—most importantly—Berlin. He was considered an outstanding interpreter of the music of Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Liszt. Johannes Brahms praised Nikisch's performance of his Fourth Symphony as "quite exemplary, it's impossible to hear it any better."

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27. Jörg Demus

1928-2019 (aged 91)

composer pianist

Jörg Wolfgang Demus was an Austrian classical pianist who appeared internationally and made many recordings. He was also a composer and a lecturer at music academies. In composition and playing, he focused on chamber music and lieder. He played with singers such as Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, as a piano duo with Paul Badura-Skoda, and with string players such...

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28. Thomas Gansch

1975-. (aged 51)

jazz musician trumpeter

Thomas Gansch is a well-known Vienna-based Austrian trumpet player. He began his studies at Vienna music school at the age of 15.

29. Karl Farkas

1893-1971 (aged 78)

television presenter film actor comedian stage actor television actor

Karl Farkas was an Austrian actor and cabaret performer.

30. Michael Spyres

1979-. (aged 47)

opera singer

Michael Spyres is an American operatic tenor. He is particularly associated with the bel canto repertoire, especially the works of Rossini, and heroic roles in French grand opera.

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31. Edith Mathis

1938-2025 (aged 87)

opera singer university teacher

Edith Mathis was a Swiss soprano known for her roles in Mozart's operas. Early in her career, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro was her signature role that she performed at debuts at several opera houses and festivals in Europe. Later, she portrayed Susanna in the same opera, Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. She took part...

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32. Jesús López Cobos

1940-2018 (aged 78)

conductor music director

Jesús López Cobos was a Spanish conductor.

33. Heinrich Schenker

1868-1935 (aged 67)

music theorist accompanist musicologist composer music educator

Heinrich Schenker was an Austrian music theorist whose writings have had a profound influence on subsequent musical analysis. His approach, now termed Schenkerian analysis, was most fully explained in a three-volume series, Neue musikalische Theorien und Phantasien (New Musical Theories and Phantasies), which included Harmony (1906), Counterpoint (1910; 1922), and Free Composition (1935).

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34. Michael Glawogger

1959-2014 (aged 55)

writer film director cinematographer screenwriter

Michael Glawogger was an Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer, born in Graz.

35. Gian Francesco Malipiero

1882-1973 (aged 91)

musicologist director composer

Gian Francesco Malipiero was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.

36. Hans Richter

1843-1916 (aged 73)

musicologist conductor composer

Johann Baptist Isidor Richter was an Austro-Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor.

37. Antonio Neumane

1818-1871 (aged 53)

conductor pianist choir director music teacher composer

Antonio Neumane was a composer, pianist, and orchestra director. His most notable work is the music of the Ecuadorian National Anthem "Salve, Oh Patria" with the text written by Juan León Mera.

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38. Franz Schmidt

1874-1939 (aged 65)

university teacher pianist composer music educator cellist

Franz Schmidt, also Ferenc Schmidt was an Austro-Hungarian composer, cellist and pianist.

39. Clemens Krauss

1893-1954 (aged 61)

librettist conductor writer composer university teacher

Clemens Heinrich Krauss was an Austrian conductor and opera impresario, particularly associated with the music of Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss and Richard Wagner. He founded the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic and conducted it until 1954.

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40. Nader Mashayekhi

1958-. (aged 68)

composer conductor

Nader Mashayekhi is an Iranian composer. From 2006 to July 2007 he was conductor of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra. He is the son of Jamshid Mashayekhi.

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41. Manfred Honeck

1958-. (aged 68)

conductor

Manfred Honeck is an Austrian conductor. He is the music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

42. Georg Friedrich Haas

1953-. (aged 73)

composer classical pianist university teacher academic musician

Georg Friedrich Haas is an Austrian composer. In a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000, pieces by Haas received the most votes (49), and his composition in vain (2000) topped the list.

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43. Theodor Leschetizky

1830-1915 (aged 85)

university teacher pianist musicologist composer music educator

Theodor Leschetizky was a Polish pianist, professor, and composer active in Austria-Hungary. He was born in Łańcut in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, then a crown land of the Habsburg domain. A well-regarded teacher, his many students included Ignaz Friedman, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, and Artur Schnabel.

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44. Karl Goldmark

1830-1915 (aged 85)

composer pianist violinist music educator

Karl Goldmark was a Hungarian-born Viennese composer.

45. Samy Molcho

1936-. (aged 90)

dancer choreographer mime artist

Samy Molcho is an Israeli mime and an expert in body language communication. He was professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts and at Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, Austria until 2004.

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46. Henri Vieuxtemps

1820-1881 (aged 61)

composer violinist music educator university teacher

Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps 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 century. He is also known for playing what is now known as the Vieuxtemps Guarneri del Gesù, a violin of superior workmanship.

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47. George Szell

1897-1970 (aged 73)

composer conductor university teacher classical pianist

George Szell, originally György Széll, György Endre Széll, or Georg Szell, was an Austro-Hungarian-born American conductor, composer and pianist. Considered one of the twentieth century's greatest conductors, he was music director of the Cleveland Orchestra of Cleveland, Ohio, and recorded much of the standard classical repertoire in Cleveland and with other orchestras.

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48. Oskar Homolka

1898-1978 (aged 80)

film actor actor stage actor

Oskar Homolka was an Austrian film and theatre actor, who went on to work in Germany, Britain and the United States. Both his voice and his appearance fitted him for roles as communist spies or Soviet officials, for which he was in regular demand. By the age of 30, he had appeared in more than 400 plays; his film career...

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49. Elisabeth Bergner

1897-1986 (aged 89)

stage actor film actor

Elisabeth Bergner was an Austrian-British actress. Primarily a stage actress, her career flourished in Berlin and Paris before she moved to London to work in films. She played the title role in The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934). Her signature role was Gemma Jones in Escape Me Never, a 1934 play written for her by Margaret Kennedy. She played...

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50. Iván Fischer

1951-. (aged 75)

composer conductor

Iván Fischer is a Hungarian conductor and composer.

51. Franz Schreker

1878-1934 (aged 56)

composer music educator university teacher writer

Franz Schreker was an Austrian composer, conductor, librettist, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, Schreker developed a style characterized by aesthetic plurality (a mixture of Romanticism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit), timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and conception of total music theatre into the narrative of 20th-century music.

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52. Robert Finster

1984-. (aged 42)

stage actor film actor

Robert Finster is an Austrian actor. He's mostly known for playing Sigmund Freud in Freud.

53. Artur Schnabel

1882-1951 (aged 69)

pianist music educator composer

Artur Schnabel was an Austrian-born classical pianist, composer and pedagogue. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura. Among the 20th century's most respected and important pianists, his playing displayed marked vitality, profundity and spirituality in the Austro-German classics, particularly the works of Beethoven and Schubert.

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54. Giuseppe Sinopoli

1946-2001 (aged 55)

composer conductor collector music educator

Giuseppe Sinopoli was an Italian conductor and composer.

55. Franz von Suppè

1819-1895 (aged 76)

composer conductor

Franz von Suppé, born Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo de Suppé was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music. He came from the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of Croatia). A composer and conductor of the Romantic period, he is notable for his four dozen operettas, including the first operetta to a German libretto. Some of them...

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56. Joseph Joachim

1831-1907 (aged 76)

violinist university teacher composer conductor violist

Joseph Joachim was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher who made an international career, based in Hanover and Berlin. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished violinists of the 19th century.

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57. Alexander von Zemlinsky

1871-1942 (aged 71)

conductor teacher writer classical composer composer

Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher.

58. Émile Jaques-Dalcroze

1865-1950 (aged 85)

music educator pedagogue composer

Émile Jaques-Dalcroze was a Swiss composer, musician, and music educator who developed Dalcroze eurhythmics, an approach to learning and experiencing music through movement. Dalcroze eurhythmics influenced Carl Orff's pedagogy, used in music education throughout the United States.

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59. Rudolf Buchbinder

1946-. (aged 80)

classical pianist

Rudolf Buchbinder is an Austrian classical pianist.

60. Shardad Rohani

1954-. (aged 72)

pianist conductor composer

Shahrdad Rohani, also known as Shardad Rohani, is an Iranian-American composer, violinist/pianist, and conductor. His style is contemporary and he is well known for composing and conducting classical, instrumental, adult contemporary/new age, film soundtrack as well as pop music. He was the principal conductor and music director of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra from 2016 to 2020.

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61. Anton Karas

1906-1985 (aged 79)

composer innkeeper film score composer zitherist

Anton Karl Karas was an Austrian zither player and composer, best known for his internationally famous 1948 soundtrack to Carol Reed's The Third Man. His association with the film came about as a result of a chance meeting with its director. The success of the film and the enduring popularity of its theme song changed Karas' life.

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62. Patricija Kopačinskaja

1977-. (aged 49)

violinist composer

Patricia Kopatchinskaja is a Moldovan-Austrian-Swiss violinist.

63. Friedrich Gulda

1930-2000 (aged 70)

composer pianist jazz musician singer

Friedrich Gulda was an Austrian pianist and composer who worked in both the classical and jazz fields.

64. Ciprian Porumbescu

1853-1883 (aged 30)

composer conductor musicologist violinist

Ciprian Porumbescu was a Romanian composer born in Șipotele Sucevei in Bucovina. He was among the most celebrated Romanian composers of his time; his popular works include Crai nou, Song of the Tricolour, Song for Spring, Ballad for violin and piano, and Serenada. In addition, he composed the music for the Romanian patriotic "Song of Unity", also known as "Pe-al...

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65. Hugo Wolf

1860-1903 (aged 43)

music critic musicologist composer

Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf was an Austrian composer, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but diverging greatly in technique.

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66. Sophie Rois

1961-. (aged 65)

film actor actor musician

Sophie Rois is an Austrian actress who lives and works in Berlin. She has appeared in such films as Three, 180°, Enemy at the Gates and television programmes such as Polizeiruf 110 and Die kleine Monsterin (voice).

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67. Dagmar Koller

1939-. (aged 87)

singer actor film actor

Dagmar Koller is an Austrian actress and singer.

68. Ulrich Seidl

1952-. (aged 74)

screenwriter film director cinematographer writer film producer

Ulrich Maria Seidl is an Austrian film director, writer and producer. Among other awards, his film Dog Days won the Grand Jury Prize at Venice in 2001.

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69. Klaus Löwitsch

1936-2002 (aged 66)

television actor voice actor stage actor film actor

Klaus Löwitsch was a German actor, best known in Germany for his starring role in the television detective series Peter Strohm.

70. Erich Wolfgang Korngold

1897-1957 (aged 60)

librettist film score composer composer classical composer pianist

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian composer and conductor, who left Europe in the mid-1930s and later adopted US nationality. A child prodigy, he became one of the most important and influential composers in Hollywood history. He was a noted pianist and composer of classical music, along with music for Hollywood films, and the first composer of international stature to...

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71. Alfred Brendel

1931-2025 (aged 94)

pianist classical pianist writer composer poet

Alfred Brendel was a Czech-born Austrian classical pianist, poet, author, composer and lecturer, based in London. He is noted for his performances of music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and Franz Liszt. He made three recordings of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas and was the first pianist to record Beethoven's complete works for solo piano.

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72. Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1929-2016 (aged 87)

actor choir director viol player composer cellist

Johann Nikolaus Harnoncourt was an Austrian conductor, known for his historically informed performances. He specialized in music of the Baroque period, but later extended his repertoire to include Classical and early Romantic works. Among his best known recordings are those of Bach, whose 193 cantatas he recorded with Gustav Leonhardt.

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73. Kirill Petrenko

1972-. (aged 54)

conductor music director

Kirill Garrievich Petrenko is a Russian-Austrian conductor. He is chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic.

74. Johann Nepomuk Hummel

1778-1837 (aged 59)

conductor pianist composer music educator concertmaster

Johann Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. He was a pupil of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Salieri, and Joseph Haydn. Hummel significantly influenced later piano music of the nineteenth century, particularly in the works of Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, and Felix Mendelssohn.

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75. Wolf Albach-Retty

1906-1967 (aged 61)

stage actor film actor

Wolf Albach-Retty was an Austrian actor. He was the father of Romy Schneider with the German actress Magda Schneider.

76. Hanns Eisler

1898-1962 (aged 64)

musician university teacher film score composer composer screenwriter

Hanns Eisler was a German-Austrian composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote for films. The Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin is named after him.

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77. George Enesco

1881-1955 (aged 74)

composer university teacher pianist violinist statesperson

George Enescu, known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, teacher and statesman. He is regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history.

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78. Alban Berg

1885-1935 (aged 50)

composer pianist librettist musician

Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively small oeuvre, he is remembered as one of the most important composers of the 20th century for his expressive style encompassing "entire worlds of emotion and structure".

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79. Alma Deutscher

2005-. (aged 21)

composer conductor pianist violinist

Alma Elizabeth Deutscher is a British composer, pianist, violinist and conductor. A child prodigy, Deutscher composed her first piano sonata at the age of five; at seven, she completed the short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams, and later wrote a violin concerto at age nine. At the age of ten, she wrote her first full-length opera, Cinderella, which had its...

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80. Johanna Wokalek

1975-. (aged 51)

stage actor film actor

Johanna Wokalek is a German stage and film actress. A student of Klaus Maria Brandauer, she received critical recognition and three newcomer awards for her performance in the play Rose Bernd. Wokalek is best known for her award-winning appearances in the German films Hierankl, Barfuss, and The Baader Meinhof Complex. She received the Bambi award for her portrayal of the...

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81. Mariss Jansons

1943-2019 (aged 76)

music educator conductor

Mariss Ivars Georgs Jansons was a Latvian conductor, best known for his interpretations of Mahler, Strauss, and Russian composers such as Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Shostakovich. During his lifetime he was often cited as among the world's leading conductors; in a 2015 Bachtrack poll, he was ranked by music critics as the world's third best living conductor. Jansons was long associated...

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82. Fritz Kreisler

1875-1962 (aged 87)

violinist composer

Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler 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 portamento and rubato. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately recognizable as his own. Although it derived in many respects...

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83. Carl Czerny

1791-1857 (aged 66)

pianist music theorist musicologist composer music educator

Carl Czerny was an Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin whose music spanned the late Classical and early Romantic eras. His vast musical production amounted to over a thousand works and his books of studies for the piano are still widely used in piano teaching. He was one of Ludwig van Beethoven's best-known pupils and would later on...

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84. Claudio Abbado

1933-2014 (aged 81)

conductor politician pianist composer music director

Claudio Abbado OMRI was an Italian conductor who was one of the leading conductors of his generation. He served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera, founder and...

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85. Franz Schubert

1797-1828 (aged 31)

pianist teacher composer

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre of thousands of works, including more than 600 Lieder (art songs in German) and other vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of piano and chamber music. His...

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86. Franz Liszt

1811-1886 (aged 75)

pianist writer composer classical composer conductor

Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most prolific and influential composers of his era, and his piano works continue to be widely performed and recorded.

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87. Tobias Moretti

1959-. (aged 67)

stage actor television actor voice actor actor film actor

Tobias Moretti is an Austrian actor.

88. Anton Bruckner

1824-1896 (aged 72)

composer teacher organist university teacher musicologist

Joseph Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer and organist best known for his symphonies and sacred music, which includes Masses, Te Deum and motets. The symphonies are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length. Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances,...

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89. Zubin Mehta

1936-. (aged 90)

double-bassist conductor

Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of Western classical music. He is music director emeritus of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and conductor emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

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90. Khatia Buniatishvili

1987-. (aged 39)

musician classical pianist

Khatia Buniatishvili is a Georgian and French concert pianist.

91. Peter Alexander

1926-2011 (aged 85)

recording artist television presenter singer film actor

Peter Alexander Ferdinand Maximilian Neumayer, commonly known as Peter Alexander, was an Austrian actor, singer and one of the most popular entertainers in the German-language world between the 1950s and his retirement. His fame emerged in the 1950s and 1960s through popular film comedies and successful recordings, predominantly of Schlager and operetta repertory. Later, Alexander established himself as the acclaimed...

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92. Carl Maria von Weber

1786-1826 (aged 40)

guitarist conductor composer classical guitarist pianist

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic in the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Best known for his operas, he was a crucial figure in the development of German Romantische Oper (German Romantic opera).

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93. Aida Garifullina

1987-. (aged 39)

opera singer musician

Aida Emilevna Garifullina is a Russian lyric soprano of Tatar descent. She was the winner of the 2013 Operalia competition and has featured in a number of productions staged at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg and the Vienna State Opera. She has a recording contract with Decca Records.

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94. Angelika Kirchschlager

1965-. (aged 61)

opera singer university teacher

Angelika Kirchschlager is an Austrian mezzo-soprano opera and lieder singer.

95. Erich Leinsdorf

1912-1993 (aged 81)

conductor

Erich Leinsdorf was an Austrian-born American conductor. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a reputation for exacting standards as well as an acerbic personality. He also published books and essays on musical matters.

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96. Ingrid Haebler

1929-2023 (aged 94)

pianist music educator university teacher

Ingrid Haebler was an Austrian classical pianist.

97. Alice Harnoncourt

1930-2022 (aged 92)

violinist viola d'amore player concertmaster

Alice Harnoncourt 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 ensemble playing on period instruments, of which she was principal violinist.

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98. Herbert von Karajan

1908-1989 (aged 81)

theatrical director film director conductor music director

Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. During the Nazi era, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival, with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, and during World War II he conducted at the Berlin State Opera. Generally regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, he...

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99. Wolfgang Sobotka

1956-. (aged 70)

politician

Wolfgang Sobotka is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) who served as the president of the Austrian National Council from 2017 until 2024.

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100. Andrés Orozco-Estrada

1977-. (aged 49)

violinist conductor musician

Andrés Orozco-Estrada is a Colombian violinist and conductor, with dual nationality in Colombia and Austria. He is principal conductor of the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Generalmusikdirektor of the Gürzenich Orchester and Cologne Opera, and chief conductor-designate of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has previously served as music director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor of the Frankfurt...

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