List of classical pianists
This is an alphabetized list of notable solo pianists who play (or played) classical music on the piano. For those who worked with other pianists as piano duos, see List of classical piano duos (performers). For a list of recorded classical pianists, see List of classical pianists (recorded).
A
[edit]Ab-Am
[edit]- Behzod Abduraimov
- Ludwig Abeille
- Jacques Abram
- Adolovni Acosta
- Armenta Adams
- Daniel Adni
- Adrian Aeschbacher
- Valery Afanassiev
- Guido Agosti
- Pierre-Laurent Aimard
- Webster Aitken
- Nelly Akopian-Tamarina
- Giuseppe Albanese
- Isaac Albéniz
- Pedro Albéniz
- Eugen d'Albert
- Charlie Albright
- Dmitri Alexeev
- Charles-Valentin Alkan
- Victor Aller
- Ilse von Alpenheim
- Louis Demetrius Alvanis
- Stefan Ammer
- Carl Arnold
An-Az
[edit]- Géza Anda
- Piotr Anderszewski
- Leif Ove Andsnes
- Nicholas Angelich
- Agustin Anievas
- Eteri Andjaparidze
- Charles-François Angelet
- Conrad Ansorge
- Jean-François Antonioli
- Mireya Arboleda
- Anton Arensky
- Martha Argerich
- Kit Armstrong
- Yvonne Arnaud
- Claudio Arrau
- Lydia Artymiw
- Şahan Arzruni
- Vladimir Ashkenazy
- Stefan Askenase
- Lola Astanova
- Ebba d'Aubert
- Lera Auerbach
- Adele aus der Ohe
- Myriam Avalos
- Yulianna Avdeeva
- Valda Aveling
- Emanuel Ax
- Nadia Azzi
B
[edit]Bab-Ban
[edit]- Sergei Babayan
- Stanley Babin
- Victor Babin
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Gina Bachauer
- Walter Bache
- Agathe Backer-Grøndahl
- Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl
- Wilhelm Backhaus
- Farhad Badalbeyli
- Paul Badura-Skoda
- Ryszard Bakst
- Mily Balakirev
- Dalton Baldwin
- Ernő Balogh
- Artur Balsam
- Joseph Banowetz
Bar-Bay
[edit]Beb-Beu
[edit]Bi-Bl
[edit]Bo
[edit]Bra-Bru
[edit]- Vera Bradford
- Alexander Braginsky
- Johannes Brahms
- Alexander Brailowsky
- Frank Braley
- Natan Brand
- Louis Brassin
- Jens Harald Bratlie
- Elisabeth Brauss
- Ronald Brautigam
- Alice Verne-Bredt
- Alfred Brendel
- Jim Brickman
- Benjamin Britten
- Kenny Broberg
- Yefim Bronfman
- Edwin Orion Brownell
- John Browning
- Bruce Brubaker
- Ignaz Brüll
- Theo Bruins
- David Brunell
Bu-By
[edit]C
[edit]Ch-Cl
[edit]- Bertrand Chamayou
- Cécile Chaminade
- Angelin Chang
- Fenia Chang
- Nellie Chaplin
- Abram Chasins
- Chen Sa
- Angela Cheng
- Cheng Wai
- Shura Cherkassky
- Milana Chernyavska
- Rachel Cheung
- Jan Chiapusso
- Joan Chissell
- Gian Paolo Chiti
- Seong-Jin Cho
- Frédéric Chopin
- Daniel Chorzempa
- Winifred Christie
- Alton Chung Ming Chan
- Marcel Ciampi
- Dino Ciani
- Aldo Ciccolini
- Tamara Anna Cislowska
- Wilhelmine Clauss-Szarvady[1]
- Muzio Clementi
- Van Cliburn
- France Clidat
Coa-Cop
[edit]Cor-Cz
[edit]D
[edit]Da-De
[edit]- Dang Thai Son
- Edward Dannreuther
- Jeanne-Marie Darré
- Fanny Davies
- Bella Davidovich
- Ivan Davis
- Karin Dayas
- William Dayas
- Jozef De Beenhouwer
- Claude Debussy
- Sylviane Deferne
- Cor de Groot
- Steven De Groote
- Élie-Miriam Delaborde
- Eduardo Delgado
- Adelina de Lara
- Jörg Demus
- Jeremy Denk
- Alicia de Larrocha
- Vladimir de Pachmann
- Nikolai Demidenko
- William Denis Browne
Di-Du
[edit]E
[edit]Ec-Em
[edit]En-Ez
[edit]F
[edit]Fa-Fl
[edit]- Mikhaïl Faerman
- Joel Fan
- Edith Farnadi
- Richard Farrell
- Iain Farrington
- Anna Fedorova
- José Feghali
- Samuil Feinberg
- Till Fellner
- Vladimir Feltsman
- Albert Ferber
- Arthur Ferrante
- Jacques Février
- Janina Fialkowska
- John Field
- James Henry Fields
- Margaret Fingerhut
- Sergio Fiorentino
- Rudolf Firkušný
- Annie Fischer
- Edith Fischer
- Caroline Fischer
- Edwin Fischer
- Norma Fisher
- Philip Edward Fisher
- Graham Fitch
- Leon Fleisher
- Yakov Flier
- Ingrid Fliter
Fo-Fu
[edit]- Andor Földes
- Grace Fong
- Julian Fontana
- Bengt Forsberg
- W. O. Forsyth
- Fou Ts'ong
- Felix Fox
- Malcolm Frager
- Homero Francesch
- Samson François
- Massimiliano Frani
- Claude Frank
- Peter Frankl
- Justus Frantz
- David Fray
- Nelson Freire
- Etelka Freund
- Carl Friedberg
- Arthur Friedheim
- Ignaz Friedman
- Mao Fujita
- Margarita Fyodorova
G
[edit]Ga-Gl
[edit]- Ossip Gabrilowitsch
- Henriette Gaertner
- Neil Galanter
- Rudolph Ganz
- Umi Garrett
- Mark Gasser
- Ivana Gavrić
- Andrei Gavrilov
- Alexander Gavrylyuk
- Heinrich Gebhard
- Kemal Gekić
- Bruno Leonardo Gelber
- Ingrid Fuzjko V. Georgii-Hemming
- Kirill Gerstein
- Carmen Geutjes
- Alexander Ghindin
- Jack Gibbons
- Walter Gieseking
- Emil Gilels
- Rhondda Gillespie
- Boris Giltburg
- Jakob Gimpel
- Pavel Gintov
- Grigory Ginzburg
- Katrine Gislinge
- Frank Glazer
- Marija Gluvakov
Go
[edit]Gr-Gu
[edit]- Enrique Graf
- Gary Graffman
- Alasdair Graham
- Percy Grainger
- Enrique Granados
- Jeffrey Grice
- Edvard Grieg
- Hélène Grimaud
- Maria Grinberg
- Bonnie Gritton
- Samuel Grodin
- Andreas Groethuysen
- Benjamin Grosvenor
- Shengying Gu
- Alberto Guerrero
- Friedrich Gulda
- Youra Guller
- Horacio Gutiérrez
- Nino Gvetadze
- László Gyimesi
H
[edit]Ha
[edit]He-Hi
[edit]Ho-Hu
[edit]I
[edit]J
[edit]Ja-Je
[edit]Jo-Ju
[edit]K
[edit]Ka
[edit]Ke-Kl
[edit]- Constance Keene
- Simone Keller
- Freddy Kempf
- Wilhelm Kempff
- Sean Kennard
- Kevin Kenner
- Louis Kentner
- Olga Kern
- Mikhail Kerzelli
- Minuetta Kessler
- Eugène Ketterer
- Stanislav Khegai
- Frederick B. Kiddle
- Edward Kilenyi
- Gary Kirkpatrick
- John Kirkpatrick
- Anatole Kitain
- Margaret Kitchin
- Evgeny Kissin
- Dmitri Klebanov
- Elisabeth Klein
- Jacques Klein
- Walter Klien
- Paul Klengel
Ko-Kr
[edit]- Aimi Kobayashi
- Alexander Kobrin
- Tobias Koch
- Zoltán Kocsis
- Raoul (von) Koczalski
- Mari Kodama
- Alan Kogosowski
- Lubka Kolessa
- Alfons Kontarsky
- Aloys Kontarsky
- Anton de Kontski
- Alexander Korsantia
- Michael Korstick
- Jason Kouchak
- Giorgio Koukl
- Stephen Kovacevich
- Leopold Koželuch
- Vladimir Krainev
- Lili Kraus
- Martin Krause
- Anna Kravtchenko
- Gustav Kross
- Vladimir Krpan
Ku-Ky
[edit]L
[edit]La
[edit]- Katia Labèque
- Marielle Labèque
- Carl Lachmund
- Carles Lama
- Frederic Lamond
- Geoffrey Lancaster
- Walter Landauer
- Wanda Landowska
- Piers Lane
- Lang Lang
- Milan Langer
- Cosimo Damiano Lanza
- Ruth Laredo
- Ervin László
- Jacob Lateiner
- Risto Lauriala
- Franz Lauska
- Horacio Lavandera
- Ingmar Lazar
- George-Emmanuel Lazaridis
- Igor Lazko
Le
[edit]Lh-Li
[edit]Lo
[edit]Lu-Ly
[edit]M
[edit]Maa-Mal
[edit]Mar–Maz
[edit]Mc-Mi
[edit]- Edwin McArthur
- Stephanie McCallum
- Leon McCawley
- Anne-Marie McDermott
- Murray McLachlan
- Nikolai Medtner
- Hephzibah Menuhin
- Yaltah Menuhin
- Susan Merdinger
- Yolanda Mero
- Janne Mertanen
- Victor Merzhanov
- Noel Mewton-Wood
- Marcelle Meyer
- Stefano Miceli
- Aleksander Michałowski
- Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
- Miloš Mihajlović
- Karol Mikuli
- Kenneth G. Mills
- Hamish Milne
- Martha Mier
Mo-Mu
[edit]N
[edit]Na-Ne
[edit]Ni-Ny
[edit]O
[edit]- Lev Oborin
- John O'Conor
- John Ogdon
- Garrick Ohlsson
- Santos Ojeda
- David Ezra Okonşar
- Janusz Olejniczak
- Ferhan Önder
- Ferzan Önder
- Bart van Oort
- Ursula Oppens
- Gerhard Oppitz
- Christopher O'Riley
- Nikolai Orlov
- József Örmény
- Leo Ornstein
- Rafael Orozco
- Cristina Ortiz
- Steven Osborne
- Alexander Osminin
- Clio-Danae Othoneou
- Henrique Oswald
- Cécile Ousset
- Vladimir Ovchinnikov
P
[edit]Pa
[edit]Pe-Pi
[edit]- Güher Pekinel
- Süher Pekinel
- Bruno Peltre
- Leonard Pennario
- Murray Perahia
- Henriette von Pereira-Arnstein
- Neal Peres Da Costa
- Alfredo Perl
- Vlado Perlemuter
- Vincent Persichetti
- Yella Pessl
- Egon Petri
- Christina Petrowska-Quilico
- Carlos Alfredo Peyrellade
- Isidor Philipp
- Andrzej Pikul
- Cecilia Pillado
- George Pinto
- Maria João Pires
- Johann Peter Pixis
- Artur Pizarro
Pl-Po
[edit]- Francis Planté
- Mikhail Pletnev
- Ignaz Pleyel
- Jonathan Plowright
- Leo Podolsky
- Ivo Pogorelić
- François-Xavier Poizat
- Daniel Pollack
- Francesco Pollini
- Maurizio Pollini
- Jean-Bernard Pommier
- Antonio Pompa-Baldi
- Michael Ponti
- Roland Pöntinen
- Tiffany Poon
- Stephen Portman
- Paul Posnak
- Viktoria Postnikova
- Cipriani Potter
- Harrison Potter
- Leff Pouishnoff
- Francis Poulenc
- Jonathan Powell
- Lloyd Powell
Pr-Pu
[edit]Q
[edit]R
[edit]Ra-Re
[edit]Ri
[edit]Ro-Rz
[edit]- Bernard Roberts
- Santiago Rodriguez
- Pascal Rogé
- Michael Roll
- Helmut Roloff
- Aleksandra Romanić
- Marcel Rominger
- Sir Landon Ronald
- Julius Röntgen
- Martin Roscoe
- Jerome Rose
- Charles Rosen
- Carol Rosenberger
- Moriz Rosenthal
- Nicholas Roth
- Jacques Rouvier
- Mūza Rubackytė
- Anton Rubinstein
- Arthur Rubinstein
- Nikolai Rubinstein
- Bernhard Ruchti
- Mikhail Rudy
- James Russo
- Frans van Ruth
- Frederic Rzewski
S
[edit]Sa
[edit]Sca-Schm
[edit]Schn-Schw
[edit]Sci-Sg
[edit]Sh-Si
[edit]- Regina Shamvili
- Barbara Shearer
- Harrison Sheckler
- Mordecai Shehori
- Howard Shelley
- Anatoly Sheludyakov
- Roy Shepherd
- Russell Sherman
- Norman Shetler
- Dmitry Shishkin
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Bella Shteinbuk
- Leonard Shure
- Clara Isabella Siegle
- Valery Sigalevitch
- Antti Siirala
- Béla Síki
- Alexander Siloti
- Abbey Simon
- Leo Sirota
- Larry Sitsky
Sl-Sr
[edit]- Heather Slade-Lipkin
- Ruth Slenczynska
- Alexander Slobodyanik
- Lindsay Sloper
- Sigurd Slåttebrekk
- Regina Smendzianka
- Jan Smeterlin
- Leo Smit
- Cyril Smith
- Ronald Smith
- Sydney Smith
- Wibi Soerjadi
- Vladimir Sofronitsky
- Grigory Sokolov
- Ivan Sokolov
- Juan María Solare
- Solomon
- Yeol Eum Son
- Wonny Song
- Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
- Gonzalo Soriano
- Jaap Spaanderman
- Pietro Spada
- Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak
St
[edit]Su-Sz
[edit]T
[edit]Ta-Th
[edit]- Gabriel Tacchino
- Yaara Tal
- Magda Tagliaferro
- Mark Taimanov
- Alexander Tamir
- Alexandre Tansman
- Sergei Tarnowsky
- Karl Tausig
- Christopher Taylor
- Simon Tedeschi
- Louis Teicher
- Gerardo Teissonniere
- Thomas Tellefsen
- Alfred Teltschik
- Per Tengstrand
- Sigismond Thalberg
- Károly Thern
- Louis Thern
- Willi Thern
- Jean-Yves Thibaudet
- François-Joël Thiollier
- Penelope Thwaites
Ti-Ty
[edit]- Ignaz Tiegerman
- Sergio Tiempo
- Vera Timanova
- James Tocco
- Václav Tomášek
- Alexander Toradze
- Donald Tovey
- Geoffrey Tozer
- Max Trapp
- Daniil Trifonov
- Simon Trpčeski
- Valerie Tryon
- Richard Aaker Trythall
- Nobuyuki Tsujii
- David Tudor
- Józef Turczyński
- Ronald Turini
- Rosalyn Tureck
- Tarja Turunen
- Anderson Tyrer
- Hélène Tysman
U
[edit]V
[edit]Va-Ve
[edit]Vi-Vr
[edit]W
[edit]Wa
[edit]We-Wn
[edit]Wo-Wu
[edit]X
[edit]Y
[edit]Z
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Clauss-Szarvady, Wilhelmine". Europäische Instrumentalistinnen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts (in German). Sophie Drinker Institut.
- ^ Sokol, Stanley S; Mrotek Kissane, Sharon F; Abramowicz, Alfred L (1992). The Polish Biographical Dictionary: Profiles of Nearly 900 Poles who Have Made Lasting Contributions to World Civilization. Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. p. 158. ISBN 0-86516-245-X.