List of bassoonists
This list contains, in alphabetical order, musicians who play or played the bassoon .
In the history
- Georg Friedrich Brandt , dedicatee of Carl Maria von Weber's concert
- Victor Bruns (1904–1996), bassoonist with the Staatskapelle Berlin and composer
- Hugo Burghauser (1896–1982), Vienna Philharmonic , dedicatee to Richard Strauss ' Duett-Concertino
- Archie Camden (1888-1979)
- François Devienne (1759-1803)
- Désiré-Hippolyte Dihau , on Edgar Degas ' L'Orchestre de l'Opéra
- Thaddäus von Dürnitz (1756–1803), occasional composer; Dedicated to the Piano Sonata No. 6 in D major KV 284 (205b) (Dürnitz Sonata) by Mozart
- Johann Friedrich Lamp (1703–1751)
- Ludwig Milde (1849–1913), Czech bassoonist, composer and university teacher
- Etienne Ozi (1754–1813), author of the first didactic bassoon school
- The Mannheim virtuoso Georg Wenzel Ritter (1748–1808), dedicatee of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante
- Carl Schaefer (1876–1954)
- Julius Weissenborn (1837–1888), principal bassoonist at the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and author of school works for bassoon
On modern instruments
- Volodymyr Apatskyj (* 1928)
- Sergio Azzolini (* 1967)
- Bence Bogányi (* 1976)
- Eckart Bormann
- Gwydion Brooke (1912-2005)
- Teimuraz Bukhnikashvili
- Hugo Burghauser (1896–1982)
- Paolo Calligaris
- Stefano Canuti (born 1961)
- Diego Chenna
- Benjamin Coelho
- Lindsay Cooper (1951-2013)
- Charles Cracknell (1915-1997)
- Corrado Dabbene
- Ole Kristian Dahl
- Daniele Damiano (* 1961)
- Christof Dienz (* 1968)
- Hanno Dönneweg (* 1977)
- Vernon Elliott (1912-1996)
- Krisztina Faludy (* 1958)
- Maximilian Feyertag
- Frank Forst (* 1969)
- Hugo Fox (1897-1969)
- Richard Galler
- Pascal Gallois (* 1958)
- Martin Gatt (* 1936/37)
- Elisabeth Göring (* 1982) Philharmonia Zurich
- Berthold Grosse
- Oliver Hasenzahl (* 1966)
- Albrecht Holder (* 1958)
- Eckart Hübner (* 1960)
- Dag Jensen (* 1964)
- Kurt Kaiser (* 1922)
- Martin Kevenhörster
- Ulrich Kircheis
- Georg Klütsch (* 1951)
- Karl Kolbinger (1921-2018)
- Clemens Koenigstedt
- Akio Koyama
- Christian Kunert (* 1983)
- Gordon Laing (* 1964)
- Hans Lemke (1937-2017)
- Jeffrey Lyman
- Nikolaus painter (* 1972)
- Peter Marschat (* 1952)
- Steve Marsden
- Andrea Merenzon (* 1963)
- Gábor Mészáros (* 1961)
- Marc Minkowski (* 1962)
- Karsten Nagel
- Camillo Öhlberger (1921–2013)
- Laurence Perkins (born 1954)
- Christoph Peter
- Magdalena Peter
- David Petersen (* 1968)
- Günter Pfitzenmaier (* 1947)
- Valery Popov (* 1937)
- Marco Postinghel (* 1968)
- Henrik Rabien (* 1971)
- Matthias Rácz (* 1980)
- Malte Refardt (* 1974)
- Johnny Reinhard (* 1956)
- Alfred Rinderspacher (* 1936)
- Wolfgang Rüdiger (* 1957)
- Monika Schumacher
- Johannes Schwarz
- Stefan Schweigert (* 1962)
- Rainer Schottstädt (1951–2016)
- David Seidel (* 1976)
- Werner Seltmann (* 1930)
- Masahito Tanaka
- Marco Thinius (* 1968)
- Danny Ray Thompson (1947-2020)
- Georg ter Voert jun
- Georg ter Voert senior
- Klaus Thunemann (* 1937)
- Milan Turković (* 1939)
- Rino Vernizzi (* 1946)
- Alexander Voigt (* 1964)
- Kim Walker
- Amaury Wallez
- Christian Walter (* 1962)
- William Waterhouse (1931-2007)
- Michael Werba (* 1955)
- Volker Werner (* 1970)
- Carsten Wilkening (* 1960)
- Katherine Young (born 1980)
On historical instruments
- Axel Andrae (* 1965)
- Sergio Azzolini (* 1967)
- Kurt Kaiser (* 1922)
- David Mings (1951-2014)
- Marc Minkowski (* 1962)
- Jérémie Papasergio (* 1972)
- Adrian Rovatkay (* 1964)
- Milan Turković (* 1939)
In the field of jazz / rock / pop
- Gianni Bedori (1930-2005)
- Karen Borca (* 1948)
- Lindsay Cooper (1951-2013)
- Fred Dutton (born 1928)
- Bunk Gardner (born 1933)
- Paul Hanson
- Dave Kurtzer (1925-2014)
- Ray Pizzi (born 1941)
- Michael Rabinowitz (* 1955)
- Peter Schickele (* 1935)
- Sara Schoenbeck
- Rino Vernizzi (* 1946)