Conductors
- Wilhelm Furtwangler (Germany, 1886)
- Herbert von Karajan (Austria, 1908)
- Pierre Boulez (France, 1925)
- Willem Mengelberg (Holland, 1871)
- Leonard Bernstein (USA, 1918)
- Yuri Temirkanov (Russia, 1938)
- Charles Dutoit (Switzerland, 1936)
- Zubin Mehta (India, 1936)
- Seiji Ozawa (Japan, 1935)
- Arturo Toscanini (Italy, 1867)
- Otto Klemperer (Germany, 1885)
- Yevgeni Mravinsky (Russia, 1903)
- Bruno Walter (Germany, 1876)
- Karl Boehm (Austria, 1894)
- Christian Thielemann (Germany, 1959)
- Rafael Kubelik (Czech, 1914)
- Bernard Haitink (Holland, 1929)
- Daniel Barenboim (Argentina, 1942)
- Georg Solti (Hungary, 1912)
- Valery Gergiev (Russia, 1953)
- John Gardiner (Britain, 1943)
- Carlos Kleiber (Austria, 1930)
- CarloMaria Giulini (Italy, 1914)
- Antal Dorati (Hungary, 1906)
- Esa-Pekka Salonen (Finland, 1958)
- Eugene Ormandy (Hungary, 1899)
- Vladimir Ashkenazy (Russia, 1937)
- Masaaki Suzuki (Japan, 1954)
- Claudio Abbado (Italy, 1933)
- Mikhail Pletnev (Russia, 1957)
- Ferenc Fricsay (Hungary, 1914)
- Neville Marriner (Britain, 1924)
- Kirill Kondrashin (Russia, 1914)
- Riccardo Muti (Italy, 1941)
- Gyorgy Szell (Hungary, 1897)
- Neeme Jarvi (Estonia, 1937)
- Evgeny Svetlanov (Russia, 1928)
- Leopold Stokowski (Britain, 1882)
- Lorin Maazel (USA, 1930)
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Austria, 1929)
- Fritz Reiner (Hungary, 1888)
- Colin Davis (Britain, 1927)
- Andre Previn (USA, 1929)
- Charles Mackerras (Australia, 1925)
- Serge Koussevitsky (Russia, 1874)
- Wolfgang Sawallisch (Germany, 1923)
- Dmitri Mitropoulos (USA, 1896)
- Eliahu Inbal (Israel, 1936)
- Ernest Ansermet (Switzerland, 1883)
- Karl Richter (Germany, 1926)
- Myung-whun Chung (Korea, 1953)
- Riccardo Chailly (Italy, 1953)
- Simon Rattle (Britain, 1955)
- Trevor Pinnock (Britain, 1946)
- Igor Markevitch (Russia, 1912)
- James Levine (USA, 1943)
- Jean Martinon (France, 1910)
- Kurt Masur (Germany, 1927)
- Roger Norrington (Britain, 1934)
- Leonard Slatkin (USA, 1944)
- Kurt Sanderling (Germany, 1912)
- Leopold Ludwig (Germany, 1908)
- Mariss Jansons (Latvia, 1943)
- Sergiu Celibidache (Romania, 1912)
- Pierre Monteux (France, 1875)
- Peter Maag (Switzerland, 1919)
- Michael Tilson Thomas (USA, 1944)
- Paul Sacher (Switzerland, 1906)
- Richard Hickox (Britain, 1948)
- Takashi Asahina (Japan, 1908)
- Giuseppe Sinopoli (Italy, 1946)
- Eugen Jochum (Germany, 1902)
- Vaclav Talich (Czechoslovakia, 1883)
- Guenter Wand (Germany, 1912)
- Thomas Beecham (Britain, 1879)
- Adrian Boult (Britain, 1889)
- Paul Kletzki (Poland, 1900)
- Hermann Abendroth (Germany, 1883)
- Otmar Suitner (Austria, 1922)
- Carl Schuricht (Germany, 1880)
Too young to be judged yet:
- Tony Pappano (Britain, 1959)
- Waelser Moest (Austria, 1960)
- Marko Lentonja (Slovenia, 1961)
- Paavo Jarvi (Estonia, 1962)
- Vladimir Jurovskij (Russia, 1972)
- Alexander Melnikov (Russia, 1973)
- Vasily Petrenko (Russia, 1976)
- Andris Nelsons (Latvia, 1978)
- Gustavo Dudamel (Venezuela, 1981)
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