or ? or ? It is difficult for inquiring minds to tackle such abundant fields as classical music and opera, covering 10 centuries of history: there are really many conductors. Making a selection of musicians, such as a “top 10” for example, is a difficult and subjective exercise. A musical selection is often the expression of personal preferences or artistic opinions, very interesting but also very different according to critics or musicologists, or simply influenced by the context: will an English conductor not be instinctively privileged by an English critic?
For example: in Mexico, Alondra de la Parra, Mexican conductor, occupies a special place in front of the Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe, who is more distant but nevertheless more internationally renowned.
Timeline of conductors, between 1850 and 1900 in North America
Whoever wants to discover classical music or opera does not always have an experienced music lover, an expert or an educator at his or her side to support and guide him or her in these fields. So : or ? or ? However, the knowledge available about musicians is enormous. It was processed to select the 10, 25, 50... most popular conductors around the world, for those living or having lived en North America, between 1850 and 1900. And this objectively, and for the first time (soClassiQ exclusivity).
Conductors rendered as a timeline to bring a little perspective:
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ComposersConductorsTLyrical singersPerformers 2020
This timeline is interactive to navigate through the ages or across continents (with ).
Why are all these composers included in this timeline?
Many composers have also been concert performers or conductors, although their fame is associated with their work today. On the other hand, some conductors such as Arturo Toscanini, Georg Solti ... or musicians such as Martha Argerich, Vladimir Horowitz, Glenn Gould ... have also composed. Itzhak Perlman, David Oïstrakh... very well known as concert performers, have also conducted orchestras. Others, such as Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, William Christie ..., are renowned as much for their careers as composers, conductors and performers.
Top 10 conductors in North America for the years 1850-1900
Who are these greatest conductors, the most famous over the 1850-1900 era in North America? The carreer of these musician has marked the history of classical music. There are those you probably know, or at least by name and the others.
Here are these 10 conductors, renowned artists from around the world:
The musicians and artists who also composed were removed from this ranking.
The selections of musicians (conductors) proposed by soClassiQ are based exclusively on algorithms. The same applies to the composers, their works, the performers, the lyrical singers, les orchestras, and the venues : opera houses, concert halls or festivals.
What about the others? 25, 50 or more?
Summarizing to 10 musician names such a wide and diverse field may seem extreme or too simplistic for those who know classical music and lyrical art well, for those who can easily name 50 or more conductors. , , , , , , ...
At this time, soClassiQ has listed more than 4400 conductors. So here is a selection of some conductors for the years 1850-1900, in North America, widely recognized around the world:
Note:
- This selection may include highly reputed artists and musicians who have occasionally devoted themselves to classical music and not exclusively.
- It may also include conductors who have been or are composers, some more renowned for the work they have left than for their careers as musicians.
Paul AbrahamThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1892-1960 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Timothee AdamowskiThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1857-1943 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
J. E. P. AldousThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1853-1934 (Romantic)
Composer & Conductor
W. H. AndersonThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1882-1955 (20th century)
Composer, Lyrical singer & Conductor
Frederic ArcherThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1838-1901 (Romantic)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Aaron AvshalomovThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1894-1965 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Robert Russell BennettThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1894-1981 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Carl BergmannThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1821-1876 (Romantic)
Performer & Conductor
Alberto BimboniThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1888-1960 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Juventino Rosas CadenasThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1868-1894 (Romantic)
Composer & Conductor
Julián CarrilloThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1875-1965 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Carlos ChávezThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1899-1978 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
George M. CohanThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1878-1942 (20th century)
Composer, Lyrical singer & Conductor
Walter DamroschThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1862-1950 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Edmond DédéThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1823-1903 (Romantic)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Arthur FiedlerThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1894-1979 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Henry FillmoreThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1881-1956 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Percy GraingerThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1882-1961 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Alexander GretchaninovThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1864-1956 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Ferde von GroféThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1892-1972 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Henry Kimball HadleyThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1871-1937 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Howard HansonThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1896-1981 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Anthony Philip HeinrichThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1781-1861 (Romantic)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Donald HeinsThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1878-1949 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Victor HerbertThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1859-1924 (Romantic)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Paul HindemithThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1895-1963 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Gustav HinrichsThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1850-1942 (Romantic)
Composer & Conductor
Jascha HorensteinThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1898-1973 (20th century)
Conductor
Emmerich KálmánThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1882-1953 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Karl KingThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1891-1971 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Rudolf KolischThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1896-1978 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor
Erich Wolfgang KorngoldThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1897-1957 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
MasterpiecesComplete works
Serge KoussevitzkyThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1874-1951 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Calixa LavalléeThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1842-1891 (Romantic)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Erik W. G. LeidzénThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1894-1962 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Wassili LepsThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1870-1942 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Ralph LyfordThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1882-1927 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Ernest MacMillanThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1893-1973 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
José Castañeda MedinillaThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1898-1983 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Henri MiroThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1879-1950 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Dimitri MitropoulosThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1896-1960 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Antonio ModarelliThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1894-1954 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Eduardo Hernández MoncadaThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1899-1995 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Pierre MonteuxThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1875-1964 (20th century)
Conductor
Douglas MooreThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1893-1969 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Adolf NeuendorffThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1843-1897 (Romantic)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Eugene OrmandyThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1899-1985 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor
Cenobio PaniaguaThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1821-1882 (Romantic)
Composer & Conductor
Wilfrid PelletierThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1896-1982 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor
Louis PersingerThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1887-1966 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor
Walter PistonThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1894-1976 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Sergei RachmaninoffThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1873-1943 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
MasterpiecesComplete works
Fritz ReinerThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1888-1963 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Alois ReiserThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1884-1977 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Silvestre RevueltasThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1899-1940 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Wallingford RieggerThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1885-1961 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Leopold SachseThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1880-1961 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Conductor
Carlos SalzedoThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1885-1961 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Arnold SchoenbergThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1874-1951 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
MasterpiecesComplete works
Henry SchoenfeldThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1857-1936 (Romantic)
Composer & Conductor
Sholom SecundaThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1894-1974 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Fabien SevitzkyThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1893-1967 (20th century)
Conductor
Alexander SilotiThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1863-1945 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Charles Sanford SkiltonThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1868-1941 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Nicolas SlonimskyThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1894-1995 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Eduard SobolewskiThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1804-1872 (Romantic)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Nikolai SokoloffThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1886-1965 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Ferdinand SorensonThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1882-1966 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
John Philip SousaThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1854-1932 (Romantic)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
William SteinbergThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1899-1978 (20th century)
Conductor
Max SteinerThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1888-1971 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Fritz StiedryThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1883-1968 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
William Grant StillThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1895-1978 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Josef StránskýThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1872-1936 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Igor StravinskyThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1882-1971 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
MasterpiecesComplete works
Gustav StrubeThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1867-1953 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Frank Van der StuckenThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1858-1929 (Romantic)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
George SzellThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1897-1970 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Robert TalbotThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1893-1954 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Oscar Ferdinand TelgmannThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1855-1946 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Randall ThompsonThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1899-1984 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Virgil ThomsonThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1896-1989 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Dimitri TiomkinThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1894-1979 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Joseph VézinaThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1849-1924 (Romantic)
Composer & Conductor
Alfred WallensteinThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1898-1983 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor
Gabriel von WayditchThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1888-1969 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor
Clarence Cameron WhiteThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1880-1960 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Efrem ZimbalistThe great 19th-century conductors (1850-1900)
1889-1985 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor
Some conductors to be celebrated very soon
Next month, more than 40 important artists and musicians will be honoured. In July 2020 some of them may celebrate a special anniversary. For others, amateurs and enthusiasts will celebrate the bicentenary of their birth or the fiftieth anniversary of their death for example. Among them, some famous conductors:
on 3, Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004), 90th anniversary (Birth),
on 7, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), 160th anniversary (Birth),
on 15, Leopold von Auer (1845-1930), 90th anniversary (Death),
on 21, Isaac Stern (1920-2001), 100th anniversary (Birth),
on 28, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), 270th anniversary (Death),
...
There are others to discover. And it is not too late to focus on the June 2020 celebrations (20+).
Always good opportunities to discover or deepen, (re)listen, explore the vastness and diversity of classical music...
See also...
Timelines : Conductors
- The great classical music conductors
- Europe * North America * South America * Asia * Oceania * Africa
- The great 20th-century conductors [II.] (1950 - 2000)
- Europe * North America * South America * Asia * Oceania * Africa
- The great 20th-century conductors [I.] (1900 - 1950)
- Europe * North America * South America * Asia * Oceania * Africa
- The great 19th-century conductors (1850 - 1900)
Indexes
- All conductors : by era * by country
- by alphabetical order : A * B * C * D * E * F * G * H * I * J * K * L * M * N * O * P * Q * R * S * T * U * V * W * X * Y * Z
- Young artists (Conductors)
Other timelines
- Composers : 10 centuries of classical music
- The great lyrical singers
- The great classical music performers
Commemorations 2020, 2021, ...
Last update : 2020-06-01