Greatest Conductors of All Time

The twenty greatest conductors ever, ranked by conductors themselves.
Source: BBC Music Magazine, 2011
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Rank
Nationality
Answer
1
Austria
Carlos Kleiber
2
United States
Leonard Bernstein
3
Italy
Claudio Abbado
4
Austria
Herbert von Karajan
5
Austria
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
6
United Kingdom
Simon Rattle
7
Germany
Wilhelm Furtwängler
8
Italy
Arturo Toscanini
9
France
Pierre Boulez
10
Italy
Carlo Maria Giulini
Rank
Nationality
Answer
11
United Kingdom
John Eliot Gardiner
12
United Kingdom
John Barbirolli
13
Hungary
Ferenc Fricsay
14
Hungary
George Szell
15
Netherlands
Bernard Haitink
16
France
Pierre Monteux
17
Russia
Yevgeny Mravinsky
18
United Kingdom
Colin Davis
19
United Kingdom
Thomas Beecham
20
Australia
Charles Mackerras
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Level 57
Nov 22, 2022
Not having John Williams here is criminal
+2
Level 57
Dec 17, 2022
(1) This quiz is based on a survey among conductors themselves; (2) John Williams is primarily a composer, not a conductor.