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Showing posts with label Violin Rankings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Violin Rankings. Show all posts

Sunday, July 30, 2017

50 Greatest Violinists of All Time

* = current

1. Niccolo Paganini
2. Jascha Heifetz
3. David Oistrakh
4. Pablo de Sarasate
*5. Itzhak Perlman
6. Nathan Milstein
7. Isaac Stern
*8. Hilary Hahn
*9. Maxim Vengerov
*10. Sarah Chang
11. Fritz Kreisler
12. Yehudi Menuhin
13. Pinchas Zukerman
14. Eugene Ysaye
15. Henryk Wieniawski
16. Leonid Kogan
*17. Joshua Bell
*18. Gil Shaham
*19. Midori
20. Ginette Neveu
21. Michael Rabin
22. Christian Ferras
*23. Leonidas Kavakos
24. Mischa Elman
*25. Viktoria Mullova
*26. Vadim Repin
*27. James Ehnes
28. Ida Haendel
29. Arthur Grumiaux
*30. Kyung-Wha Chung
*31. Julia Fischer
*32. Ilya Kaler
*33. Janine Jansen
*34. Leila Josefowicz
*35. Anne Sophie-Mutter
36. Henri Vieuxtemps
*37. Anne Akiko Meyers
*38. Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
39. Ivry Gitlis
40. Henryk Szeryng
41. Bronislaw Huberman
42. Zino Francescatti
43. Frank Peter Zimmerman
*44. Lisa Batiashvili
*45. Akiko Suwanai
*46. Rachel Barton Pine
47. Joseph Joachim
*48. Schlomo Mintz
*49. Vadim Gluzman
*50. David Garrett