Im folgenden befindet sich eine (noch sehr unvollständige) Liste bedeutender Dirigenten; wenn Sie eine neue Dirigentenbiografie erstellt haben, tragen sie bitte den Namen hier ein:
A
- Claudio Abbado (1933)
- Hermann Abendroth (1883-1956)
- Maurice Abravanel (1903-1993)
- Adriano (1944)
- Yuri Ahronovitch (1932-2002)
- Jonas Alber (1969)
- Werner Andreas Albert (1935)
- George Alexander Albrecht (1935)
- Gerd Albrecht (1935)
- John Alldis (1929)
- Kenneth Alwyn (1925)
- Klaus Ammann (1950)
- Karel Ancerl (1908-1973)
- Ernest Ansermet (1883-1969)
- Henri Arends (1921-1993)
- Conrad Artmüller (1944)
- Stefan Asbury
- Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937)
- Sir David Atherton (1944)
- Moshe Atzmon (1931)
- Philippe Auguin (1961)
B
- Roland Bader (1938)
- Matthias Bamert (1942)
- Sir John Barbirolli (1899-1970)
- Daniel Barenboim (1942)
- Rudolf Barschai (1924)
- Pierre Bartholomée (1937)
- Serge Baudo (1927)
- Rudolf Baumgartner (1917-2002)
- Steuart Bedford (1939)
- Sir Thomas Beecham (1879-1961)
- Eduard van Beinum (1900-1959)
- Heribert Beissel
- Jirí Belohlávek (1946)
- Paavo Berglund (1929)
- Karl Friedrich Beringer (1949)
- Frieder Bernius (1947)
- Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
- Gary Bertini (1927)
- Matthew Best (1957)
- Leo Blech (1871-1958)
- Herbert Blomstedt (1927)
- Karl Böhm (1894-1981)
- Emil Bohnke (1888-1928)
- Richard Bonynge (1930)
- Andrey Boreyko (1957)
- Willi Boskovsky (1909-1991)
- Pierre Boulez (1925)
- Sir Adrian Boult (1889-1983)
- Ernest Bour (1913-2001)
- Martyn Brabbins
- Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg (1906-1985)
- Frans Brüggen (1934)
- Hans von Bülow (1830-1894)
- Fritz Busch (1890-1951)
- Semyon Bychkov (1952)
C
- Oleg Caetani (1956)
- Sylvain Cambreling (1948)
- Paolo Carignani (1961)
- Sergiu Celibidache (1912-1996)
- Riccardo Chailly (1953)
- Hans Chemin-Petit (1902-1981)
- William Christie (1944)
- Myung-Whun Chung (1953)
- Nicholas Cleobury (1950)
- André Cluytens (1905-1967)
- Edmon Colomer
- James Conlon (1950)
- Marius Constant (1925-2004)
- Michel Corboz (1934)
- Robert Craft (1923)
D
- Jean-Luc Darbellay (1946)
- Thomas Dausgaard (1963)
- Meredith Davies (1922)
- Sir Andrew Davis (1944)
- Carl Davis (1936)
- Sir Colin Davis (1927)
- Andreas Delfs (1959)
- Dean Dixon (1915-1976)
- Christoph von Dohnányi (1929)
- Plácido Domingo (1941)
- Antal Doráti (1906-1988)
- Charles Dutoit (1936)
- Sir Edward Downes (1924)
E
F
- Vladimir Fedosseyev (1932)
- Eric Fenby (1906-1997)
- Achim Fiedler(1965)
- Arthur Fiedler (1894-1979)
- Ádám Fischer (1949)
- Iván Fischer (1951)
- Claus Peter Flor (1953)
- Lawrence Foster (1941)
- Alun Francis (1943)
- Justus Frantz (1944)
- Ferenc Fricsay (1914-1963)
- Rafael Frühbeck (1933)
- Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886-1954)
G
- Lamberto Gardelli (1915-1998)
- John Eliot Gardiner (1943)
- Daniele Gatti (1961)
- Gianluigi Gelmetti (1945)
- Waleri Abissalowitsch Gergijew (1953)
- Sir Alexander Gibson (1926-1995)
- Michael Gielen (1927)
- Carlo Maria Giulini (1914)
- Reinhard Goebel (1952)
- Wolfgang Gönnenwein (1933)
- Miguel Angel Gomez-Martínez (1949)
- Sir Charles Groves (1915-1992)
- Peter Gülke (1934)
- Christian Günter
H
- Bernard Haitink (1929)
- Vernon Handley (1928)
- Daniel Harding (1975)
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929)
- Wolf-Dieter Hauschild (1937)
- Robert Heger (1886-1978)
- Siegfried Heinrich (1935)
- Michael Heise (1940)
- Thomas Hengelbrock (1958)
- Philippe Herreweghe (1947)
- Richard Hickox (1948)
- Johann Adam Hiller (1728-1804)
- Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
- Michael Hofstetter
- Christopher Hogwood (1941)
- Heinz Holliger (1939)
- Heinrich Hollreiser (1913)
- Manfred Honeck (1958)
- Jascha Horenstein (1898-1973)
- Markus Huber
- Mathias Husmann (1948)
I
J
K
- Oswald Kabasta (1896-1946)
- Christian Kabitz (1950)
- Thomas Kalb (1959)
- Tõnu Kaljuste (1953)
- Okko Kamu (1946)
- Shigeru Kan-no (1959)
- Gilbert E. Kaplan (1941)
- Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989)
- Herbert Kegel (1920-1990)
- Joseph Keilberth (1908-1968)
- Rudolf Kempe (1910-1976)
- Paul van Kempen (1893-1955)
- István Kertész (1929-1973)
- Hans-Peter Kirchberg
- Dmitrij Kitajenko (1940)
- Bernhard Klee (1936)
- Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004)
- Erich Kleiber (1890-1956)
- Otto Klemperer (1885-1973)
- August Klughardt (1847-1902)
- Hans Knappertsbusch (1888-1965)
- Zdenek Košler (1928-1995)
- Zoltán Kocsis (1952)
- Kirill Kondrashin (1914-1981)
- Franz Konwitschny (1901-1962)
- Ton Koopman (1944)
- Serge Kussewitzky (1874-1951)
- Clemens Krauss (1893-1954)
- Yakov Kreizberg (1959)
- Josef Krips (1902-1974)
- Rafael Kubelik (1914-1996)
- Sigiswald Kuijken (1944)
L
- Philip Ledger (1937)
- Fritz Lehmann (1904-1956)
- René Leibowitz (1913-1972)
- Erich Leinsdorf (1912-1993)
- Ferdinand Leitner (1912-1996)
- Gustav Leonhardt (1928)
- Raymond Leppard (1927)
- Hermann Levi (1839-1900)
- James Levine (1943)
- Andrew Litton (1959)
- David Lloyd-Jones (1934)
- Jesús López-Cobos (1940)
- Fabio Luisi (1959)
- Christopher Lyndon-Gee (1954)
M
- Lorin Maazel (1930)
- Charles Mackerras (1925)
- Bruno Maderna (1920-1973)
- Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
- Kurt Masur (1927)
- Zubin Mehta (1936)
- Carl Melles (1926-2004)
- Willem Mengelberg (1871-1951)
- Ingo Metzmacher (1957)
- Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960)
- Pierre Monteux (1875-1964)
- Felix Mottl (1856-1911)
- Jewgenij Mrawinskij (1903-1988)
- Karl Muck (1859-1940)
- Helmut Müller-Brühl (1933)
- Heinz Müller-Grassmann
- Charles Münch (1891-1968)
- Karl Münchinger (1915-1990)
- Ricardo Muti (1941)
N
- Kent Nagano (1951)
- Václav Neumann (1920-1995)
- Arthur Nikisch (1855-1922)
- Sir Roger Norrington (1934)
O
P
- Jorma Panula (1930)
- Antonio Pappano (1959)
- Andrew Parrott (1947)
- Giuseppe Patané (1932-1989)
- Libor Pešek (1933)
- Trevor Pinnock (1946)
- Michel Plasson (1933)
- Mikhail Pletnev (1957)
- Valéry Polyansky (1949)
- Max Pommer (1936)
- Christoph Poppen (1956)
- Georges Prêtre (1924)
- André Previn (1929)
- Sir John Pritchard (1921-1989)
R
- Beat Raaflaub (1946)
- Simon Rattle (1955)
- Fritz Reiner (1888-1963)
- Hans Richter (1843-1916)
- Karl Richter (1926-1981)
- Karl Anton Rickenbacher (1940)
- Julius Rietz (1812-1877)
- Helmuth Rilling (1933)
- Karl Ristenpart (1900-1967)
- Artur Rodzinski (1892-1958)
- Hans Rosbaud (1895-1962)
- Gennadi Nikolajewitsch Roschdestwenski (1931)
- Mstislaw Leopoldowitsch Rostropowitsch (1927)
- Hans-Joachim Rotzsch (1929)
- Konrad Ruhland (1932)
- Dennis Russell Davies (1944)
S
- Esa-Pekka Salonen (1958)
- Kurt Sanderling (1912)
- Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923)
- Hermann Scherchen (1891-1966)
- Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900-1973)
- Gustav Schreck (1849-1918)
- Tullio Serafin (1878-1968)
- Lior Shambadal (1950)
- Giuseppe Sinopoli (1946-2001)
- Stefan Soltesz (1949)
- Sir Georg Solti (1912-1997)
- Hans Stadlmair (1929)
- Horst Stein (1928)
- Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977)
- Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
- Joseph Sucher (1843-1908)
- Otmar Suitner (1922)
- Hans Swarowsky (1899-1975)
- Jewgeni Swetlanow (1928-2002)
- George Szell (1897-1970)
T
U
V
W
- Edo de Waart (1941)
- Hiroshi Wakasugi (1935)
- Heinz Wallberg (1923-2004)
- Bruno Walter (1876-1962)
- Günter Wand (1912-2002)
- Ralf Weikert (1940)
- Bruno Weil (1949)
- Felix von Weingartner (1863-1942)
- Walter Weller (1939)
- Franz Welser-Möst (1960)
- Stig Westerberg (1918-1999)
- Sir David Willcocks (1919)
- Ulrich Windfuhr (1960)
- Antoni Wit (1944)
- Hugh Wolff (1953)
- Sir Henry Wood (1869-1944)