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1 A

• Claudio Abbado
• Maurice Abravanel
• Salvatore Accardo (more famous as a violinist)
• Samuel Adler
• Marin Alsop
• Karel Ancerl
• Ernest Ansermet
• Bruno Aprea
• Sir Richard Armstrong
• Vladimir Ashkenazy (equally famous as a pianist)

2 B

• Sir John Barbirolli
• Daniel Barenboim
• Rudolf Barshai
• Leon Barzin
• Serge Baudo
• Sir Thomas Beecham
• Eduard van Beinum
• Jiri Belohlávek
• Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli (brother of piano soloist Arturo)
• Leonard Bernstein
• Paavo Berglund
• Hector BerliozLouis Hector Berlioz ( December 11, 1803 March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer best known for the Symphonie Fantastique first performed in 1830, and for his Requiem of 1837, with its tremendous resources that include four antiphonal brass choirs. (more famous as a composer)
• Leo Blech
• Karl BöhmKarl Bohm ( August 28, 1894 August 14, 1981) was a noted conductor. Born in Graz, Austria he began conducting in that music-filled city. Later he would direct many of the world's best orchestras in Munich, Berlin, and Vienna. Bohm was a close colleague of
• Richard BonyngeRichard Bonynge (born 1933) is an Australian conductor. He was born in Sydney and studied piano at the Royal College of Music in London. He gave up his music scholarship, continuing his private piano studies, and became a coach for singers. One of these w
• Willi BoskovskyWilli Boskovsky ( 1908- 1991) was an Austrian violinist and conductor. Boskovsky was the concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra from 1936 to 1979. He was also the conductor of the New Year's Day concert, which is usually devoted to the music o (also famous as a violinist)
• Pierre BoulezPierre Boulez (born March 26, 1925) is a conductor and composer of classical music. He was born in Montbrison, France. He initially studied mathematics at Lyon before pursuing music at the Paris Conservatoire under Olivier Messiaen and Andree Vaurabourg (
• Sir Adrian BoultSir Adrian Cedric Boult ( April 8, 1889 February 22, 1983) was an English conductor. He was born in Chester to comfortable middle-class parents and educated at Westminster (who have named their music centre after him) and Oxford. Even as a schoolboy he wa
• Lord Benjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten ( November 22, 1913 December 4, 1976) was a British composer and pianist. Life He was born in Lowestoft in Suffolk, the son of a dentist and a talented amateur musician. He began composing prolifically as a child, an (more famous as a composer)
• Max BruchMax Bruch ( January 6, 1838 October 20, 1920), German composer and conductor. He is particularly well known for one work (out of over 200), his first violin concerto in G minor, though he actually wrote three. This work was and still is one of the most po (better known as a composer)
• Frans Bruggen (also famous as a recorder player)
• Adolf Busch
• Fritz Busch