List of known zither players
This list includes musicians who have become known as instrumentalists with the string instrument zither .
- Alfons Bauer (1920–1997)
- Eduard Bayer (1822–1908), composer and virtuoso
- Max Joseph in Bavaria (1808–1888)
- Michael Bredl (1915–1999)
- Adam Darr (1811–1866)
- Johann Dubez (also Dubetz) (1828-1891)
- Walter Johann Feierfeil (* 1931)
- Xu Fengxia (born 1963)
- Georg Freundorfer (1881–1940)
- Max Funk (born June 25, 1892 in Berlin ; † May 3, 1970 in Berlin), zither virtuoso, quartet leader, conductor, teacher, composer
- Heinz Gamper (* 1949)
- Georg Glasl (* 1957)
- Richard Grünwald (born March 13, 1877 in Budapest, † May 10, 1963 in Vienna), zither player, composer, author and publisher
- Josef Haustein (born August 25, 1849 in Vorderbrühl near Vienna; † August 21, 1926 in Mödling), author of the "School of Fluency"
- Stephan Hörandner (born May 6, 1983)
- Emil Holz (born October 24, 1898; † March 29, 1967 in Zurich ), zither virtuoso, teacher, quartet leader, composer
- August Huber (born August 28, 1845 in Vienna, † February 2, 1917 in Graz)
- Gertrud Huber (* 1963)
- Leopold Hurt (* 1979)
- Willy Kaltofen (1918–2012)
- Anton Karas (1906–1985)
- Paul Kiem (1882-1960)
- Rudi Knabl (1912-2001)
- Ferdinand Kollmaneck (born February 11, 1871 in Vienna; † July 13, 1941 in Leipzig), "Wiener Secessionsensemble", inventor of the "ideal reform zither"
- Franz Georg Knotzinger (born March 16, 1908; † December 31, 1993 in Vienna), zither player ("Wiener Zitherertrio"), music critic, author
- Franz Kropf (1826–1879), zither player and teacher (including Empress 'Sisi'), composer
- Monika Kutter (* 1973)
- Hannelore Laister (born May 18, 1944)
- Barbara Laister-Ebner (born August 25, 1972)
- Hans Lanner (* 1873 in Reichenau an der Rax; † February 13, 1964 there), chamber zither player, teacher and composer
- Jörg Lanzinger (born May 27, 1975 in Lauingen ad Donau , Bavaria ), musician, music teacher and composer
- Alois Rudolf Lerche (born June 17, 1851 in Vienna; † March 24, 1925 there), zither player, composer, owner of a zither school; Editor, publisher and owner of the trade journal "Der Troubadour"
- Fritz Mühlhölzl (born October 24, 1890 in Munich; † April 16, 1940), guitar and zither virtuoso, music teacher in Munich
- Wilhelm Müller-Ilmenau (born July 23, 1911 in Hanover; † March 12, 1961), zither player, teacher and composer
- Josef Omuletz (1870–1938)
- Vanessa Peham (* 1993), Austrian zither virtuoso
- Johann Petzmayer (1803-1884)
- Heinrich Pröll (born June 29, 1899 in Vienna; † February 22, 1980 ibid), zither player ("Viennese Zither Master Quartet"), teacher, author of a zither school
- Anni Raithel (born December 16, 1893 in Munich; † August 27, 1980 in Munich), guitar and zither virtuoso, music teacher
- Curt Herbert Richter (1898–1974)
- Ernst Rommel (born October 10, 1905, † March 28, 1985), guitar and zither virtuoso, lecturer at the Weimar University of Music, composer
- Arthur Rosenbauer (* 1955)
- Wilfried Scharf (* 1955)
- Simon Schneider (born December 4, 1886 in Pasing ; † June 20, 1971 in Pasing), guitar and zither virtuoso, composer, music teacher in Pasing
- Max Schraudolf (1918–1999)
- Johannes Schubert (* 1988)
- Max Schulz (born February 5, 1866 in Dresden ; † March 31, 1945 in Berlin), zither virtuoso , member of the Berlin zither trio with Josef Pfleger and Hans Ragotzky (1868–1927) and member of the Berlin solo trio
- Kraudn Sepp (1896–1977)
- Joachim Suess (* 1932)
- Tomy Temerson (* 1973)
- Carl IF Umlauf (born September 19, 1824 in Baden, Lower Austria; † February 25, 1902 in Vienna), creator of the “Wiener Zither”, founder of a zither school, composer, court musician
- Franz Wagner (born August 23, 1853 in Vienna, † March 7, 1930 in Graz), zither player, composer, owner of a zither school, editor and publisher
- Friedrich Weber (born November 10, 1921 in Gaming; † September 4, 1996), musician (including zither), music teacher and composer
- Nikolaus Weigel (born December 17, 1811 in Hayna, Rheinpfalz, † January 17, 1878 in Munich), developer of a stringing system for the percussion zither, author of zither schools
- Traudl Well (1919–2015)
- Michiyo Yagi (* 1962)
- Manfred Zick (* 1947), known as Zither-Manä
- Josef Schwarz (born March 31, 1953 in Weyarn), Zither-Sepp, he plays everything on the zither, every song, whether classical, Landler or modern. He knew Rudi Knabl very well.