Notable Alumni of University of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig [Sorted List]

1. Max Fiedler

1859-1939 (aged 80)

pianist conductor composer

August Max Fiedler was a German conductor and composer, He was noted as an interpreter of Brahms.

2. Ottokar Nováček

1866-1900 (aged 34)

composer violist musicologist violinist

Ottokar Eugen Nováček was an Austro-Hungarian violinist, violist and composer of Czech descent. He is perhaps best known for his work Perpetuum Mobile (Perpetual Motion), written in 1895.

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3. Mitja Nikisch

1899-1936 (aged 37)

composer conductor pianist jazz musician

Mitja Nikisch was a classical pianist and dance band leader, born in Leipzig, Germany on 21 May 1899 and died in Venice, Italy on 5 August 1936.

4. Conrad Ansorge

1862-1930 (aged 68)

composer pianist

Conrad Eduard Reinhold Ansorge was a German pianist, teacher and composer.

5. Walter Bache

1842-1888 (aged 46)

pianist music educator conductor

Walter Bache was an English pianist and conductor noted for his championing the music of Franz Liszt and other music of the New German School in England. He studied privately with Liszt in Italy from 1863 to 1865, one of the few students allowed to do so, and continued to attend Liszt's master classes in Weimar, Germany regularly until 1885,...

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6. Frederic Hymen Cowen

1852-1935 (aged 83)

pianist conductor composer

Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen, was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

7. Marie-Elisabeth Hecker

1987-. (aged 39)

cellist

Marie-Elisabeth Hecker is a German cellist. In 2005 she was one of the youngest participants to win first prize at the Concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch, the most important cello competition held every four years in Paris.

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8. Erhard Mauersberger

1903-1982 (aged 79)

composer organist university teacher musicologist choir director

Erhard Mauersberger was a German choral conductor who conducted the Thomanerchor as the 14th Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach. He was also an academic teacher and composer.

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9. Felix Otto Dessoff

1835-1892 (aged 57)

music educator conductor composer

Felix Otto Dessoff was a German conductor and composer.

10. Émile Sauret

1852-1920 (aged 68)

violinist music educator composer

Émile Sauret 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 Parnassum" (1894).

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11. Frieda Hempel

1885-1955 (aged 70)

opera singer

Frieda Hempel was a German lyric coloratura soprano singer in operatic and concert work who had an international career in Europe and the United States.

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12. Alfred Hill

1869-1960 (aged 91)

classical composer conductor music educator composer

Alfred Francis Hill CMG OBE was an Australian-New Zealand composer, conductor and teacher.

13. Cornelis Dopper

1870-1939 (aged 69)

music educator conductor composer

Cornelis 'Kees' Dopper was a Dutch composer, conductor and teacher.

14. Ernst Rudorff

1840-1916 (aged 76)

university teacher pianist environmentalist composer music educator

Ernst Friedrich Karl Rudorff was a German composer and music teacher, also a founder of the nature protection movement "Heimatschutz".

15. Xiao Youmei

1884-1940 (aged 56)

music educator composer

Xiao Youmei was a noted Chinese music educator and composer. He was also styled as Sīhè (思鶴) and Xuěpéng (雪朋).

16. Eyvind Alnæs

1872-1932 (aged 60)

conductor pianist choir director academic musician composer

Eyvind Alnæs was a Norwegian composer, pianist, organist and choir director.

17. Ludvig Norman

1831-1885 (aged 54)

conductor university teacher pianist composer chapelmaster

Ludvig Norman was a Swedish composer, conductor, pianist, and music teacher. Together with Franz Berwald and Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, he ranks among the most important Swedish symphonists of the 19th century.

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18. Hans Sitt

1850-1922 (aged 72)

composer violist university teacher violinist conductor

Hans Sitt, was a Bohemian violinist, violist, teacher, and composer. During his lifetime, he was regarded as one of the foremost teachers of violin. Most of the orchestras and conservatories of Europe and North America then sported personnel who numbered among his students.

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19. Karol Hubert Rostworowski

1877-1938 (aged 61)

poet musician journalist

Karol Hubert Rostworowski was a Polish playwright, poet and musician, born to a family of local gentry. He is remembered for his opposition to totalitarianism and for fatalistic works inspired by Catholic morality.

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20. Joseph Haas

1879-1960 (aged 81)

university teacher music educator composer

Joseph Haas was a German late romantic composer and music teacher.

21. Matthias Eisenberg

1956-. (aged 70)

cantor organist harpsichordist

Matthias Eisenberg is a German concert organist and harpsichordist, and a cantor. The award-winning player is known for performing concerts with clarinetist Giora Feidman. He has performed and conducted master classes internationally. He recorded, including the complete organ works by J. S. Bach and improvisations, and has conducted Bach cantatas from the harpsichord in collaboration with the Thomanerchor.

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22. Anton Seidl

1850-1898 (aged 48)

conductor chapelmaster

Anton Seidl was a Hungarian conductor, best known for his collaboration with Richard Wagner and conducting his operas, and for his association with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and the New York Philharmonic.

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23. Albert Coates

1882-1953 (aged 71)

composer conductor

Albert Coates was an English conductor and composer. Born in Saint Petersburg, where his English father was a successful businessman, he studied in Russia, England and Germany, before beginning his career as a conductor in a series of German opera houses. He was a success in England conducting Wagner at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1914, and in...

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24. Louis Persinger

1887-1966 (aged 79)

music educator conductor university teacher pianist musician

Louis Persinger 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 studies were at the Leipzig Conservatory where he studied violin with Hans Becker, piano with Carl Beving, conducting with Arthur Nikisch before finishing with Eugène Ysaÿe in Brussels and then studying with Jacques...

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25. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling

1930-2012 (aged 82)

university teacher music educator pianist

Karl-Heinz Kämmerling was a German academic teacher of classical pianists, who trained pianists at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover for careers as performers and academic teachers, particularly in the early training of highly gifted students.

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26. Friedrich Gernsheim

1839-1916 (aged 77)

composer conductor pianist music educator

Friedrich Gernsheim was a German composer, conductor and pianist.

27. Georg Schumann

1866-1952 (aged 86)

composer conductor

Georg Alfred Schumann was a German composer and director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin.

28. Hans Huber

1852-1921 (aged 69)

composer pianist

Hans Huber was a Swiss composer. Between 1894 and 1918, he composed five operas. He also wrote a set of 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 100, for piano four-hands in all major and minor keys.

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29. Günther Ramin

1898-1956 (aged 58)

conductor university teacher choir director composer organist

Günther Werner Hans Ramin was an influential German organist, conductor, composer and pedagogue, holding the post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig from 1940 to 1955.

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30. Wilhelm Kienzl

1857-1941 (aged 84)

conductor pianist musicologist composer biographer

Wilhelm Kienzl was an Austrian composer.

31. Adolph L'Arronge

1838-1908 (aged 70)

actor screenwriter writer

Adolphe L'Arronge was a German playwright and theatre director. His best known work is the 1873 comedy play My Leopold which has been adapted into numerous films.

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32. Woldemar Bargiel

1828-1897 (aged 69)

university teacher music educator composer

Woldemar Bargiel was a German composer and conductor of the Romantic period.

33. Salomon Jadassohn

1831-1902 (aged 71)

composer music theorist university teacher pianist theorist

Salomon Jadassohn was a German pianist, composer, and teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory.

34. Lionel Tertis

1876-1975 (aged 99)

music educator composer music journalist university teacher violist

Lionel Tertis, CBE was an English violist. A noted teacher, he was one of the first viola players to achieve international fame.

35. William Batchelder Bradbury

1816-1868 (aged 52)

hymnwriter songwriter composer

William Batchelder Bradbury was a musician who composed the tune to "Jesus Loves Me" and many other popular hymns.

36. Mihail Jora

1891-1971 (aged 80)

professor conductor composer

Mihail Jora was a Romanian composer, pianist, and conductor.

37. Felix Draeseke

1835-1913 (aged 78)

university teacher writer theorist composer music educator

Felix August Bernhard Draeseke was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music.

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38. Rudolf Mauersberger

1889-1971 (aged 82)

composer conductor singer choir director

Rudolf Mauersberger was a German choral conductor and composer. His younger brother Erhard was also a conductor and composer.

39. Balys Dvarionas

1904-1972 (aged 68)

composer pianist conductor university teacher

Balys Dvarionas was a Soviet and Lithuanian composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. Dvarionas first became known as a composer after World War II. His works are in a romantic vein, with roots in folk song.

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40. Jón Leifs

1899-1968 (aged 69)

composer pianist conductor writer

Jón Leifs was an Icelandic composer, pianist, and conductor.

41. Jaromír Weinberger

1896-1967 (aged 71)

music educator conductor composer

Jaromír Weinberger was a Bohemian-born Jewish subject of the Austrian Empire, who became a naturalized American composer.

42. Othmar Schoeck

1886-1957 (aged 71)

pianist conductor composer

Othmar Schoeck was a Swiss Romantic composer and conductor. He was known for his considerable output of art songs and song cycles but also wrote operas, notably the one-act Penthesilea, premiered in Dresden in 1927, and instrumental works, including two string quartets and concertos for violin (for Stefi Geyer), cello and horn.

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43. Eileen Joyce

1908-1991 (aged 83)

pianist harpsichordist

Eileen Alannah Joyce CMG was an Australian pianist whose career spanned more than 30 years. She lived in England in her adult years.

44. Karl Davydov

1838-1889 (aged 51)

music educator conductor composer university teacher cellist

Karl Yulievich Davydov was a Russian cellist, described by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the "czar of cellists". He was also a composer, mainly for the cello. His name also appears in various different spellings: Davydov, Davidoff, Davidov, and more, with his first name sometimes written as Charles or Carl.

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45. Emil von Reznicek

1860-1945 (aged 85)

composer university teacher

Emil Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr von Reznicek was an Austrian composer of Romanian-Czech ancestry.

46. Robert Kajanus

1856-1933 (aged 77)

composer conductor

Robert Kajanus was a Finnish conductor, composer, and teacher. In 1882, he founded the Helsinki Orchestral Society, Finland's first professional orchestra. As a conductor, he was also a notable champion and interpreter of the music of Jean Sibelius.

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47. Franz Konwitschny

1901-1962 (aged 61)

violist conductor music director politician

Franz Konwitschny was a German conductor and violist of Moravian descent.

48. George Whitefield Chadwick

1854-1931 (aged 77)

university teacher music educator composer

George Whitefield Chadwick was an American composer. Along with John Knowles Paine, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, he was a representative composer of what is called the Second New England School of American composers of the late 19th century. Chadwick's works are influenced by the Realist movement in the arts, characterized by a down-to-earth depiction of...

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49. Ignaz Friedman

1882-1948 (aged 66)

composer pianist

Ignaz Friedman was a Polish pianist and composer. Critics (e.g. Harold Schonberg) and colleagues (e.g. Sergei Rachmaninoff) alike placed him among the supreme piano virtuosi of his day, alongside Leopold Godowsky, Moriz Rosenthal, Ferruccio Busoni, Josef Hofmann and Josef Lhévinne.

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50. Karl Muck

1859-1940 (aged 81)

conductor pianist

Karl Muck was a Hessian-born conductor of classical music. He based his activities principally in Europe and mostly in opera. His American career comprised two stints at the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO). Muck endured a trial by media in 1917, after Providence Journal editor John R. Rathom falsely accused him of knowingly refusing a request to have the BSO play...

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51. Matthias Goerne

1967-. (aged 59)

opera singer

Matthias Goerne is a German baritone. He has performed and recorded extensively, both on the opera stage and in Lieder settings. Goerne has been referred to as "Today's leading interpreter of German art songs" by the Chicago Tribune, while the Boston Globe describes him as "one of the greatest singers performing today".

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52. Guilhermina Suggia

1885-1950 (aged 65)

cellist

Guilhermina Augusta Xavier de Medim Suggia Carteado Mena, known as Guilhermina Suggia was a Portuguese cellist. She studied in Paris with Pablo Casals, and built up an international reputation. She spent many years living in the United Kingdom, where she was particularly celebrated. She retired in 1939, but emerged from retirement to give concerts in Britain. Her last was in...

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53. Hugo Distler

1908-1942 (aged 34)

choir director conductor composer university teacher church musician

August Hugo Distler was a German organist, choral conductor, teacher and composer.

54. Sigfrid Karg-Elert

1877-1933 (aged 56)

music educator composer university teacher pianist musicologist

Sigfrid Theodor Karg-Elert was a German composer and organist who wrote prolifically for pipe and reed organs.

55. Cornelius Gurlitt

1820-1901 (aged 81)

composer painter music theorist music educator

Gustav Cornelius Gurlitt was a German composer. He was a classmate of Carl Reinecke, whose father was head of the Leipzig Conservatory. Gurlitt studied with Reinecke's father for six years. His first public appearance at the age of seventeen was well received, and he decided to go to Copenhagen to continue his studies. There he studied organ, piano, and composition...

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56. Hermann Levi

1839-1900 (aged 61)

pianist conductor composer

Hermann Levi was a German Jewish orchestral conductor.

57. Freya Klier

1950-. (aged 76)

theatrical director stage actor film director writer political activist

Freya Klier is a German author and film director. Before 1989/90, she was an East German civil rights activist.

58. Christian Sinding

1856-1941 (aged 85)

classical composer musicologist academic musician composer

Christian August Sinding was a Norwegian composer. He is best known for his lyrical work for piano Frühlingsrauschen (Rustle of Spring, 1896). He was often compared to Edvard Grieg and regarded as his successor.

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59. Götz Friedrich

1930-2000 (aged 70)

theatrical director film director director producer

Götz Friedrich was a German opera and theatre director.

60. Franco Alfano

1875-1954 (aged 79)

composer pianist music educator writer

Franco Alfano was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his operas Cyrano de Bergerac (1936) and Risurrezione (1904), and for having completed Puccini's opera Turandot in 1926. He had considerable success with several of his own works during his lifetime.

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61. Klaus Tennstedt

1926-1998 (aged 72)

conductor concertmaster

Klaus Hermann Wilhelm Tennstedt was a German conductor from Merseburg. Known for his interpretation of the Austro-German repertoire, especially his sympathetic approaches towards Gustav Mahler, Tennstedt is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential conductors of the late 20th century. He worked with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Symphony Orchestra, and other highly regarded ensembles such...

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62. Johan Svendsen

1840-1911 (aged 71)

conductor academic musician musicologist composer violinist

Johan Severin Svendsen was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist. Born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway, he lived most of his life in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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63. Georg Christoph Biller

1955-2022 (aged 67)

singer choir director composer music arranger conductor

Georg Christoph Biller was a German choral conductor. He conducted the Thomanerchor as the sixteenth Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach from 1992 to 2015. He was also a baritone, an academic teacher, and a composer. Active as Thomaskantor after the German reunification, Biller returned the Thomanerchor to its original focus on church music. He was instrumental in the new buildings...

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64. Hugo Riemann

1849-1919 (aged 70)

pianist music theorist university teacher writer composer

Karl Wilhelm Julius Hugo Riemann was a German musicologist and composer who was among the founders of modern musicology. The leading European music scholar of his time, he was active and influential as both a music theorist and music historian. Many of his contributions are now termed as Riemannian theory, a variety of related ideas on many aspects of music...

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65. Simone Kermes

1965-. (aged 61)

opera singer

Simone Kermes is a German coloratura soprano, especially known for her virtuoso voice, suited to the opera seria genre of the Baroque and early Classical period.

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66. Ludwig Güttler

1943-. (aged 83)

university teacher conductor trumpeter

Ludwig Güttler is an internationally known German virtuoso on the Baroque trumpet, the piccolo trumpet and the corno da caccia. As a conductor, he founded several ensembles including the chamber orchestra Virtuosi Saxoniae. His name is sometimes written in English as Ludwig Guttler.

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67. Sergei Bortkiewicz

1877-1952 (aged 75)

classical composer pianist

Sergei Eduardovich Bortkiewicz was a Romantic composer and pianist. He moved to Vienna in 1922 and became a naturalized Austrian citizen in 1926.

68. Felix Weingartner

1863-1942 (aged 79)

conductor composer writer classical composer pianist

Paul Felix Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist.

69. Wilhelm Backhaus

1884-1969 (aged 85)

composer pianist music educator university teacher

Wilhelm Backhaus was a German pianist and pedagogue. He was particularly well known for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. He was also much admired as a chamber musician.

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70. Zdeněk Fibich

1850-1900 (aged 50)

choir director pedagogue conductor composer dramaturge

Zdeněk Fibich was a Czech composer of classical music. Among his compositions are chamber works (including two string quartets, a piano trio, piano quartet and a quintet for piano, strings and winds), symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas (the most famous probably Šárka and The Bride of Messina), melodramas including the substantial trilogy Hippodamia, liturgical music including a...

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71. Otto Goldschmidt

1829-1907 (aged 78)

composer pianist conductor university teacher

Otto Moritz David Goldschmidt was a pianist, composer, conductor and educator, whose works included a piano concerto and other piano pieces, and an oratorio, Ruth, on a biblical theme, written for the Three Choirs Festival. From a prosperous mercantile family in Hamburg, he studied under Felix Mendelssohn at the Leipzig Conservatoire and quickly established himself as a pianist. Among the...

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72. Adolphe Appia

1862-1928 (aged 66)

theatre designer architect writer

Adolphe Appia was a Swiss architect and theorist of stage lighting and décor. He was the son of Red Cross co-founder Louis Appia.

73. Adrian Boult

1889-1983 (aged 94)

conductor autobiographer

Sir Adrian Cedric Boult, CH was a British conductor. Brought up in a prosperous mercantile family, he followed musical studies in England and at Leipzig, Germany, with early conducting work in London for the Royal Opera House and Sergei Diaghilev's ballet company. His first prominent post was conductor of the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1924. When the British Broadcasting...

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74. Sebastian Krumbiegel

1966-. (aged 60)

actor singer film actor

Sebastian Krumbiegel is a German singer and musician. He is a member of the band Die Prinzen.

75. Frederick Delius

1862-1934 (aged 72)

composer

Frederick Theodore Albert Delius CH was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation. He soon neglected his managerial duties, and in 1886 returned to Europe.

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76. Miklós Rózsa

1907-1995 (aged 88)

conductor pianist film score composer musicologist composer

Miklós Rózsa was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931) and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953 onward. Best known for his nearly one hundred film scores, he nevertheless maintained a steadfast allegiance to absolute concert music throughout what he called his "double life".

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77. Peter Sodann

1936-2024 (aged 88)

director producer voice actor actor theatre manager

Peter Sodann was a German actor, director and politician. He was the Left Party's nominee for the 2009 presidential election, but was not considered a serious candidate by the German media.

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78. Ethel Smyth

1858-1944 (aged 86)

composer women's rights activist writer autobiographer librettist

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth DBE was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas.

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79. Gisela Uhlen

1919-2007 (aged 88)

screenwriter stage actor film director television actor film actor

Gisela Uhlen was a German film actress and occasional screen writer.

80. Tobias Künzel

1964-. (aged 62)

singer

Tobias Künzel is a German pop artist and composer, best known as one of the lead singers for the group 'Die Prinzen'.

81. Carl Reinecke

1824-1910 (aged 86)

conductor university teacher pianist composer music educator

Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a German composer, conductor, and pianist in the mid-Romantic era.

82. Ferruccio Busoni

1866-1924 (aged 58)

composer pianist musicologist conductor music theorist

Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His international career and reputation led him to work closely with many of the leading musicians, artists and literary figures of his time, and he was a sought-after keyboard instructor and a teacher of composition.

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83. Mykola Lysenko

1842-1912 (aged 70)

music educator conductor composer classical composer pianist

Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic period. In his time he was the central figure of Ukrainian music, with an oeuvre that includes operas, art songs, choral works, orchestral and chamber pieces, and a wide variety of solo piano music. He is often credited with founding a national music tradition during...

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84. Arthur Sullivan

1842-1900 (aged 58)

composer organist conductor music educator

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer. He is best known for 14 comic opera collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. His works include 24 operas, 11 major orchestral works, ten choral works and oratorios, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous church pieces, songs,...

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85. Petra Schmidt-Schaller

1980-. (aged 46)

film actor television actor stage actor

Petra Schmidt-Schaller is a German actress. She is noted for the roles of Helene in Runaway Horse alongside Ulrich Noethen, Ulrich Tukur and Katja Riemann, and Maud Brewster in The Sea Wolf (2008 ProSieben film) alongside Thomas Kretschmann.

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86. Stephanie Stumph

1984-. (aged 42)

film actor child actor stage actor

Stephanie Stumph is a German actress. She is the daughter of actor Wolfgang Stumph.

87. Nadja Uhl

1972-. (aged 54)

film actor dub actor stage actor

Nadja Uhl is a German actress.

88. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

1875-1911 (aged 36)

composer painter

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian composer, painter, choirmaster, cultural figure, and writer in Polish.

89. Kurt Masur

1927-2015 (aged 88)

conductor university teacher

Kurt Masur was a German conductor. Called "one of the last old-style maestros", he directed many of the principal orchestras of his era. He had a long career as the Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and also served as music director of the New York Philharmonic for about ten years. He made many recordings of classical music with major...

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90. Tom Wlaschiha

1973-. (aged 53)

television actor stage actor film actor dub actor

Thomas Wlaschiha is a German actor. Internationally, he is known for his roles as Jaqen H'ghar in the second, fifth and sixth seasons of the TV series Game of Thrones, as well as Sebastian Berger in the police procedural Crossing Lines. He also appeared in four episodes of Jack Ryan as Max Schenkel. He plays Dmitri Antonov / "Enzo" in...

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91. Edvard Grieg

1843-1907 (aged 64)

composer pianist

Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions brought the music of Norway to fame, as well as helping to develop a national identity, much as Jean...

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92. Yvonne Catterfeld

1979-. (aged 47)

singer songwriter voice actor actor film actor

Yvonne Catterfeld is a German singer, actress and television personality. Born and raised in Erfurt, Thuringia, she later moved to Leipzig to pursue her career in music. In 2000, she participated in the debut season of the singing competition series Stimme 2000, where she came in second place. Catterfeld subsequently signed a recording deal with Hansa Records, which released her...

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93. Ulrich Mühe

1953-2007 (aged 54)

theatrical director television actor stage actor film actor

Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe was a German film, television and theatre actor. He played the role of Hauptmann (Captain) Gerd Wiesler in the Oscar-winning film Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others, 2006), for which he received the gold award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, at the Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Awards); and the...

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94. Leoš Janáček

1854-1928 (aged 74)

music educator librettist musicologist music theorist organist

Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer, music theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic music, including Eastern European folk music, to create an original, modern musical style.

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95. Mirja Boes

1971-. (aged 55)

stage actor singer

Mirja Boes, also known under her stage name Möhre (German for "carrot"), is a German comedian, actress, and singer. Boes produces comedic party music, and also has released tracks of spoken comedy. She has released a number of singles and has also recorded with other German musicians, as part of the 'Mallorca All-Stars'. She won the 2007 German Comedy Award...

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96. Steffen Schleiermacher

1960-. (aged 66)

composer pianist

Steffen Schleiermacher is a German composer, pianist, and conductor.

97. Jonel Perlea

1900-1970 (aged 70)

composer conductor

Ionel Perlea was a Romanian conductor particularly associated with the Italian and German opera repertories.

98. Aarre Merikanto

1893-1958 (aged 65)

composer pianist

Aarre Merikanto was a Finnish composer.

99. Isaac Albéniz

1860-1909 (aged 49)

conductor pianist virtuoso composer classical pianist

Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the post-romantic era who also had a significant influence on his contemporaries and younger composers. He is best known for his piano works that incorporate Spanish folk music idioms and elements. His compositions, particularly those in his suite...

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100. 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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