The great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000) North America

Leinsdorf or Alsop? Nézet-Séguin or Järvi? 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 1950 and 2000+ 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 : Leinsdorf (American conductor) or Alsop (Conductor and violinist) ? Levine (American conductor and pianist) or Nagano (American conductor and opera administrator) ? 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 1950 and 2000+. And this objectively, and for the first time (soClassiQ exclusivity).

Conductors rendered as a timeline to bring a little perspective:

19301930 19401940 19501950 19601960 19701970 19801980 19901990 20002000 20102010

George Szell 18971970

John Coolidge Adams 1947

Paul Hindemith 18951963

Yannick Nézet-Séguin 1975

André Previn 19292019

Paul Abraham 18921960

Kristjan Järvi 1972

Kurt Weill 19001950

James Newton Howard 1951

Henry Mancini 19241994

Dimitri Mitropoulos 18961960

Barbara Hannigan 1971

Plácido Domingo 1941

Van Cliburn 19342013

Lorin Maazel 19302014

Arnold Schoenberg 18741951

James Horner 19532015

Percy Grainger 18821961

Miklós Rózsa 19071995

Igor Stravinsky 18821971

Erich Wolfgang Korngold 18971957

Wynton Marsalis 1961

Emmerich Kálmán 18821953

Paavo Järvi 1962

Leonard Bernstein 19181990

James Levine 1943

Murray Perahia 1947

Walter Damrosch 18621950

Zubin Mehta 1936

Eugene Ormandy 18991985

Yehudi Menuhin 19161999

Jerry Goldsmith 19292004

Victor Borge 19092000

Bernard Herrmann 19111975

Aaron Copland 19001990

Timeline :

ComposersConductors TReduce to conductors onlyLyrical singers Performers Worldwide Europe North America South America Asia Oceania Africa 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 1950-2000+

Who are these greatest conductors, the most famous over the 1950-2000+ 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. Perahia, Järvi, Domingo, Ormandy, Bychkov, Järvi, Horenstein...

At this time, soClassiQ has listed more than 4400 conductors. So here is a selection of some conductors for the years 1950-2000+, 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.

A
  Paul AbrahamThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1892-1960 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
 Maurice AbravanelThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1903-1993 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Leslie AdamsThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 87 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  John Coolidge AdamsThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 73 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 Samuel AdlerThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 92 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  Marin AlsopThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 63 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
 Daniele AmfitheatrofThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1901-1983 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  Leroy AndersonThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1908-1975 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  Desi ArnazThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1917-1986 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Lyrical singer, Performer & Conductor 
 Jacob AvshalomovThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1919-2013 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 Aaron AvshalomovThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1894-1965 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
 John AxelrodThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 54 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 

B
 Leonardo BaladaThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 86 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 Léon BarzinThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1900-1999 (20th century)
                        
Conductor 
 Robert Russell BennettThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1894-1981 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Elmer BernsteinThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1922-2004 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Leonard BernsteinThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1918-1990 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Jorge BoletThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1914-1990 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
  Victor BorgeThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1909-2000 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 Leon BotsteinThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 73 (20th century)
                        
Conductor 
  Walter BoudreauThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 72 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 Bruce BroughtonThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 75 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  Leo BrouwerThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1939-2003 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Semyon BychkovThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 67 (20th century)
                        
Conductor 

C
 Enrique Bátiz CampbellThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 78 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
  Karina CanellakisThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 39 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
 Julián CarrilloThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1875-1965 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  Carlos ChávezThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1899-1978 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Van CliburnThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1934-2013 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
 Sergiu ComissionaThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1928-2005 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
  James ConlonThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 70 (20th century)
                        
Conductor 
  Aaron CoplandThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1900-1990 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
MasterpiecesComplete works 
  Anton CoppolaThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1917-2020 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
 Carmine CoppolaThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1910-1991 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
 Roque CorderoThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1917-2008 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  Robert CraftThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1923-2015 (20th century)
                        
Conductor 

Walter DamroschThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1862-1950 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor

Dennis Russell DaviesThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 76 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor

Carl DavisThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 83 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

Franz-Paul DeckerThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1923-2014 (20th century)
Conductor

Dean DixonThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1915-1976 (20th century)
Conductor

Plácido DomingoThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 79 (20th century)
Lyrical singer & Conductor

Antal DorátiThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1906-1988 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor

Percy FaithThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1908-1976 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

Arthur FiedlerThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1894-1979 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

Leon FleisherThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 92 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor

Malcolm ForsythThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1936-2011 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor

Lukas FossThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1922-2009 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

Lawrence FosterThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 78 (20th century)
Conductor

Massimo FrecciaThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1906-2004 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor

G
 James Allen GähresThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 76 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 Blas GalindoThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1910-1993 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  José Pablo Moncayo GarcíaThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1912-1958 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Kenneth GilbertThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1931-2020 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
  Alan GilbertThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 53 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
 Don GillisThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1912-1978 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
 Szymon GoldbergThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1909-1993 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
  Jerry GoldsmithThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1929-2004 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Morton GouldThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1913-1996 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Percy GraingerThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1882-1961 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Alexander GretchaninovThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1864-1956 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
 Ferde von GroféThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1892-1972 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 Giancarlo GuerreroThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 51 (20th century)
                        
Conductor 

H
 Daron HagenThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 58 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Marvin HamlischThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1944-2012 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  Barbara HanniganThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 49 (20th century)
                        
Lyrical singer, Performer & Conductor 
  Howard HansonThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1896-1981 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 John HarbisonThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 81 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
 Skitch HendersonThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1918-2005 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Bernard HerrmannThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1911-1975 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  Paul HindemithThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1895-1963 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Jascha HorensteinThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1898-1973 (20th century)
                        
Conductor 
  James HornerThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1953-2015 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Alan HovhanessThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1911-2000 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  James Newton HowardThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 69 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 Karel HusaThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1921-2016 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 

Kristjan JärviThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 48 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor

Paavo JärviThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 57 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor

Neeme JärviThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 83 (20th century)
Conductor

Donald JohanosThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1928-2007 (20th century)
Conductor

Bradley JosephThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 54 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

K
 Jeronimas KačinskasThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1907-2005 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Emmerich KálmánThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1882-1953 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
 Milton KatimsThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1909-2006 (20th century)
                        
Conductor 
 Werner KlempererThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1920-2000 (20th century)
                        
Lyrical singer, Performer & Conductor 
 Rudolf KolischThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1896-1978 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
 Nikolai KorndorfThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1947-2001 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  Erich Wolfgang KorngoldThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1897-1957 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
MasterpiecesComplete works 
 Andre KostelanetzThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1901-1980 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  Serge KoussevitzkyThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1874-1951 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 Stephen KovacevichThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 79 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
 Yakov KreizbergThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1959-2011 (20th century)
                        
Conductor 
  Ernst KrenekThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1900-1991 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  Theodore KucharThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 57 (20th century)
                        
Conductor 
 Erich KunzelThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1935-2009 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
  Robert KurkaThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1921-1957 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
 Milan KymlickaThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1936-2008 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 

Alondra de la ParraThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 39 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor

Michel LegrandThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1932-2019 (20th century)
Composer, Lyrical singer, Performer & Conductor

Dieter LehnhoffThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 65 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

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Erik W. G. LeidzénThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1894-1962 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor

Mitch LeighThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1928-2014 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

Erich LeinsdorfThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1912-1993 (20th century)
Conductor

Tania LeónThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 77 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

James LevineThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 77 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor

Lowell LiebermannThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 59 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

Andrew LittonThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 61 (20th century)
Conductor

Otto LueningThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1900-1996 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor

M
  Lorin MaazelThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1930-2014 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 Ernest MacMillanThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1893-1973 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Henry ManciniThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1924-1994 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 Arturo MárquezThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 69 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  Wynton MarsalisThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 58 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Eduardo MataThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1942-1995 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  Zubin MehtaThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 84 (20th century)
                        
Conductor 
  Yehudi MenuhinThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1916-1999 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
 Michael MinskyThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1918-1988 (20th century)
                        
Lyrical singer & Conductor 
  Dimitri MitropoulosThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1896-1960 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 Eduardo Hernández MoncadaThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1899-1995 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Pierre MonteuxThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1875-1964 (20th century)
                        
Conductor 
 Douglas MooreThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1893-1969 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
 Oskar MorawetzThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1917-2007 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  François MorelThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1926-2018 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 

Kent NaganoThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 68 (20th century)
Conductor

Charles NeidichThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 67 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor

John NelsonThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 78 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor

David NewmanThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 66 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

Randy NewmanThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 76 (20th century)
Composer, Lyrical singer, Performer & Conductor

Yannick Nézet-SéguinThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 45 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor

Eugene OrmandyThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1899-1985 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor

Peter OundjianThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 64 (20th century)
Conductor

George PehlivanianThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 56 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor

Wilfrid PelletierThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1896-1982 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor

Murray PerahiaThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 73 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor

Louis PersingerThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1887-1966 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor

Matthias PintscherThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 49 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor

Walter PistonThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1894-1976 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

André PrevinThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1929-2019 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

Eve QuelerThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 89 (20th century)
Conductor

Gardner ReadThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1913-2005 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor

Fritz ReinerThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1888-1963 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

Wallingford RieggerThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1885-1961 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

Joshua RifkinThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 76 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

David RobertsonThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 62 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor

Miklós RózsaThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1907-1995 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

Julius RudelThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1921-2014 (20th century)
Conductor

Max RudolfThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1902-1995 (20th century)
Conductor

S
  Carlos SalzedoThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1885-1961 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Lalo SchifrinThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 88 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 Thomas SchippersThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1930-1977 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  Alexander SchneiderThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1908-1993 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
  Arnold SchoenbergThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1874-1951 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
MasterpiecesComplete works 
  Gunther SchullerThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1925-2015 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 William SchumanThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1910-1992 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  Gerard SchwarzThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 72 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
 Sholom SecundaThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1894-1974 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  Ralph ShapeyThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1921-2002 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  Howard ShoreThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 73 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 Oscar ShumskyThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1917-2000 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
  Elie SiegmeisterThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1909-1991 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
 Joseph SilversteinThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1932-2015 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
  Leonard SlatkinThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 75 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
 Nicolas SlonimskyThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1894-1995 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 Nikolai SokoloffThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1886-1965 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 Izler SolomonThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1910-1987 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
 S. P. SomtowThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 67 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
 Ethel StarkThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1910-2012 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
 Leon SteinThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1910-2002 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
 William SteinbergThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1899-1978 (20th century)
                        
Conductor 
  Max SteinerThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1888-1971 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Isaac SternThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1920-2001 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
 Fritz StiedryThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1883-1968 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  William Grant StillThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1895-1978 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 Ignace StrasfogelThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1909-1994 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Igor StravinskyThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1882-1971 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
MasterpiecesComplete works 
 Gustav StrubeThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1867-1953 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
 Carlos SurinachThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1915-1997 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
  George SzellThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1897-1970 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 

Robert TalbotThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1893-1954 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor

Michael Tilson ThomasThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 75 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

Randall ThompsonThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1899-1984 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor

Virgil ThomsonThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1896-1989 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor

Dimitri TiomkinThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1894-1979 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

Joan TowerThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 81 (20th century)
Composer & Conductor

Brian TylerThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 48 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

Eugene TziganeThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 38 (20th century)
Conductor

W
 Alfred WallensteinThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1898-1983 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
 Robert WardThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1917-2013 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
 Joshua WeilersteinThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 33 (20th century)
                        
Performer & Conductor 
  Kurt WeillThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1900-1950 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  Earl WildThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1915-2010 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
  John WilliamsThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 88 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 
 Charles WilsonThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 89 (20th century)
                        
Composer & Conductor 
 Keri-Lynn WilsonThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 53 (20th century)
                        
Conductor 
 Hugh WolffThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
age 66 (20th century)
                        
Conductor 
  Charles WuorinenThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)  
1938-2020 (20th century)
                        
Composer, Performer & Conductor 

Benjamin ZanderThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 81 (20th century)
Conductor

Efrem ZimbalistThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1889-1985 (20th century)
Composer, Performer & Conductor

David ZinmanThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
age 84 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor

Paul ZukofskyThe great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000)
1943-2017 (20th century)
Performer & Conductor

Some conductors to be celebrated very soon

Next month, more than 30 important artists and musicians will be honoured. In September 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 8, Lars Vogt (1970- ), 50th anniversary,
on 14, Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842), 260th anniversary (Birth),
on 20, Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968), 140th anniversary (Birth),
on 29, Václav Neumann (1920-1995), 100th anniversary (Birth),
on 30, Johan Svendsen (1840-1911), 180th anniversary (Birth),
...

There are others to discover. And it is not too late to focus on the August 2020 celebrations (40+).

Always good opportunities to discover or deepen, (re)listen, explore the vastness and diversity of classical music...

The great 20th-century conductors (1950-2000) North America

Timeline of conductors, between 1950 and 2000+ in North America

Top 10 conductors in North America for the years 1950-2000+

What about the others? 25, 50 or more?

Some conductors to be celebrated very soon

See also...

Timelines : Conductors

Indexes

Other timelines

Commemorations 2020, 2021, ...