List of violists
The list of violists includes names of violists who have achieved wide recognition and who meet the criteria of relevance .
Violists
Sorted by year of birth and alphabet (last name):
- Johann Egidius Bach (1645-1716)
- Roman Hofstetter (1742–1815)
- Ignaz Umlauf (1746–1796)
- Joseph Schubert (1754–1837)
- Jakob Moralt (1780-1820)
- Carl Heinrich Meyer (1784–1837)
- Christian Urhan (1790-1845)
- Carl Heissler (1823-1878)
- Emanuel Wirth (1842–1923)
- Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858–1921)
- Théophile Laforge (1863-1918)
- Michael Balling (1866-1925)
- Oskar Nedbal (1874–1930)
- Paul Essek (1875-1948)
- Lionel Tertis (1876–1975)
- Maurice Vieux (1884–1951)
- Wladimir Bakaleinikoff (1885–1953)
- Karl Reitz (1887–1943)
- Emil Bohnke (1888–1928)
- Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
- Léon Barzin (1900-1999)
- Karla Höcker (1901–1992)
- William Primrose (1904-1982)
- Richard Goldner (1908-1991)
- Paul Rolland (1911–1978)
- Henry Aaron (1914-2000)
- Peter Muck (1919-2011)
- Ulrich Koch (1921–1996)
- Franz Beyer (1922-2018)
- Georg W. Borsche (1922–1999)
- Rudolf Barschai (1924-2010)
- James Pataki (1925-2004)
- Alan Iglitzin (* 1931)
- Hans-Christian Bartel (1932-2014)
- Leroy Jenkins (1932-2007)
- Hatto Beyerle (* 1933)
- Hermann Voss (* 1934)
- Dietmar Hallmann (* 1935)
- Herbert Blendinger (* 1936)
- Enrique Santiago (* 1939)
- Thomas Kakuska (1940-2005)
- John Cale (born 1942)
- Reiner Schmidt (1942–2011)
- Nobuko Imai (* 1943)
- Bruno Pasquier (* 1943)
- Jürgen Kussmaul (* 1944)
- Ulrich von Wrochem (* 1944)
- Michael Kugel (* 1946)
- Conrad Zwicky (* 1946)
- Gérard Caussé (* 1948)
- Karl-Michael Krummacher (* 1948)
- Pinchas Zukerman (* 1948)
- Heinrich Koll (* 1951)
- Matthias Sannemüller (* 1951)
- Kim Kashkashian (born 1952)
- Yuri Bashmet (* 1953)
- Xaver Paul Thoma (* 1953)
- Wolfram Christ (* 1955)
- Matthias Buchholz (* 1957)
- James Creitz (* 1957)
- Manfred Honeck (* 1958)
- Marius Nichiteanu (1958-2014)
- Claudio Capponi (* 1959)
- Lars Anders Tomter (* 1959)
- Volker Biesenbender (* 1960)
- Georg Hamann (* 1960)
- Jim Nolet (born 1961)
- Vincent Royer (* 1961)
- Christophe Desjardins (1962-2020)
- Veronika Hagen (* 1963)
- Isabelle van Keulen (* 1966)
- Hartmut Rohde (* 1966)
- Tabea Zimmermann (* 1966)
- Martin Stegner (* 1967)
- Juri Gilbo (* 1968)
- Ruth Killius (* 1968)
- Gunda Gottschalk (* 1969)
- Mat Maneri (* 1969)
- Klaus Heuermann (* 1970)
- Mario Gheorghiu (* 1972)
- Julian Gillesberger (* 1972)
- Oene van Geel (* 1973)
- Nicholas Cords (* 1974)
- Viacheslav Dinerchtein (* 1976)
- Anton Jivaev (* 1976)
- Gareth Lubbe (* 1976)
- Julia Rebekka Adler (* 1978)
- Nils Mönkemeyer (* 1978)
- Maxim Rysanov (* 1978)
- Antoine Tamestit (* 1979)
- Frantz Loriot (* 1980)
- Pauline Sachse (* 1980)
- Zheng Wenxiao (* 1981)
- Barbara Buntrock (* 1982)
- Emilie Hörnlund (* 1982)
- Sergei Malow (* 1983)
- Lech Antonio Uszynski (* 1986)
- Mihai Cocea (* 1990)
- You-Young Kim
Composers who play the viola
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
- Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
- Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
- Fyodor Druzhinin (1932-2007)
- Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
- Johannes Fritsch (1941-2010)
- Fritz Geissler (1921–1984)
- Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
- Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
- Volker David Kirchner (1942-2020)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
- Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840)
- Allan Pettersson (1911-1980)
- Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936)
- Alessandro Rolla (1757-1841)
- Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- Carl Stamitz (1745–1801)
- Johann Stamitz (1717–1757)
- Giuseppe Torelli (1658–1709)