Notable alumni This is an assortment of notable alumni: (See also
:Category:University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni) •
Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909), Spanish composer and pianist •
Algernon Ashton (1859–1937), British composer and pianist •
Wilhelm Backhaus (1884–1969), German pianist •
Matthias Bäcker (born 1971), German oboist •
Friedrich Baumfelder (1836–1916), German conductor, composer, and pianist •
Lena Belkina (born 1987), Ukrainian mezzo-soprano •
Herman Berlinski (1910–2001), German-born American composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and choir conductor •
Sina Berlinski née Goldfein (1910–2011), German-born American pianist and piano teacher •
Georg Christoph Biller (1955–2022),
Thomaskantor •
Rudolf Bockelmann (1892–1958), German baritone •
Ulrich Böhme (born 1956), German organist •
Gerhard Bosse (1922–2012), German violinist and conductor •
Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1983), English conductor •
Gonzalo Brenes (1907–2003), Panamanian composer, musicologist, music educator, civil servant, and politician •
Emil Büchner (1826–1908), German conductor and bandmaster •
Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924), Italian pianist and composer •
George Whitefield Chadwick (1854–1931), American composer, of the '
Second New England School' •
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875–1911), Lithuanian composer and painter •
Frederick Delius (1862–1934), English composer •
Hugo Distler (1907–1942), German composer and church musician •
Matthias Eisenberg (born 1956), German organist •
Frank-Michael Erben (born 1965), German violinist •
Martin Flämig (1913–1998), German choir director, Protestant state-church music director, cantor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor •
Gertrude Förstel (1880–1950), studied piano, but was remembered as soprano •
Wolfgang Fortner (1907–1987), German composer, composition teacher and conductor •
Götz Friedrich (1930–2000), German director •
Albert Fuchs (1858–1910), Swiss-German composer, conductor, academic, and critic •
Leo Funtek (1885–1965), violinist, conductor, arranger and music professor •
Didia Saint Georges (1888–1979), Romanian composer •
Matthias Goerne (born 1967), German singer •
Edvard Grieg (1843–1907), Norwegian composer •
Juozas Gruodis (1884–1948), Lithuanian composer and conductor •
Jakob Grün (1837–1916), Austrian violinist •
Ludwig Güttler (born 1943), German trumpeter •
Johannes Helstone (1853–1927), Surinamese composer, pianist and writer. •
Leota Henson (1866–1955), American piano accompanist for the Fisk Jubilee Singers •
Peter Herrmann (1941–2015), German composer •
Alfred Hill (1869–1960), Australian composer, conductor and teacher •
Joseph Hirschbach (1860–1897), Musical Director, Tivoli Opera House, San Francisco •
Leoš Janáček (1854–1928), Czech composer •
Karl-Heinz Kämmerling (1930–2012), German piano teacher •
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877–1933), German composer •
Hermann Keller (1885–1967), German church musician und musicologist •
Simone Kermes (born 1965), operatic soprano •
Paul Klengel (1854–1935), German violinist, pianist, composer •
Freya Klier (born 1950) German author, director •
Robert Köbler (1912–1970), German university organist •
Franz Konwitschny (1901–1962), German conductor •
Sebastian Krumbiegel (born 1966), German pop singer •
Tobias Künzel (born 1964), German pop singer •
Harry Kupfer (1935–2019), German impresario • Soo Jung Kwon (born 1979), Pianist, educator, musician •
Rosemarie Lang (1947-2017), German singer •
David Le Vita (1906-2006), American musician, musicologist, conductor and educator •
Christel Loetzsch (born 1986), German mezzo-soprano •
John Lund (1859—1925), German-born American conductor and composer •
Mykola Lysenko (1842–1912), Ukrainian composer, pianist and music educator •
Anne Macnaghten (1908–2000), British violinist and pedagogue •
Carl Adolf Martienssen (1881–1955), German pianist and music educator •
Kurt Masur (1927–2015), German conductor •
Erhard Mauersberger (1903–1982), German organist, music teacher, cantor of the Thomanerchor •
Rudolf Mauersberger (1889–1971), German choir director und composer, cantor of the
Dresdner Kreuzchor •
Ulrich Mühe (1953–2007), German actor •
Irina Pauls (born 1961), German choreographer •
Tom Pauls (born 1959), German actor and cabaret artist •
Günther Ramin (1898–1956), German organist, choir director and composer •
Karl Richter (1926–1981) German choir director, conductor, harpsichordist, organist •
Hugo Riemann (1849–1919), German music theorist, music historian, music educator and music lexicographer •
Sofie Rohnstock (1875–1964), Austrian composer •
Miklós Rózsa (1907–1995), Hungarian American Hollywood film composer •
Richard Sahla (1855–1931) Austrian violin virtuoso, conductor and composer •
Émile Sauret (1852–1920), French violin virtuoso and composer •
Steffen Schleiermacher (born 1960), German composer and pianist •
Annerose Schmidt (1936–2022), German pianist •
Michael Schönheit (born 1961), German organist and conductor •
Christoph Schroth (born 1937), German director •
Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942), Czech composer and pianist •
Hans-Joachim Schulze (born 1934), German Bach scholar •
Christian Sinding (1856–1941), Norwegian composer •
Ethel Smyth (1858–1944), English composer •
Peter Sodann (born 1936), German actor •
Ralf Stabel (born 1965), German theatre scholar / dance scholar •
Anna Diller Starbuck (1868–1929) composer and pianist •
Fritz Steinbach (1855–1916), German conductor •
Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), English composer •
Bertha Tapper (1859–1915), Norwegian pianist and editor •
Klaus Tennstedt (1926–1998), German conductor •
Siegfried Thiele (born 1934), German composer •
Kurt Thomas (1904–1973), German composer and choir director •
David Timm (born 1969), German pianist, organist, choral conductor and jazz musician •
Jürnjakob Timm (born 1949), German cellist •
Nadja Uhl (born 1972), German actress •
Helmut Walcha (1907–1991), German organist and harpsichordist •
Amadeus Webersinke (1920–2005), German pianist and organist •
Felix von Weingartner (1863–1942), Austrian conductor, composer, pianist and writer •
Wilhelm Weismann (1900–1980) German composer and musicologist •
Johannes Weyrauch (1897–1977), German composer •
Louise Collier Willcox (1865–1929), American author, editor, anthologist, translator, suffragist •
Heinz Wunderlich (1919–2012), German organist, academic and composer •
Ruth Zechlin (1926–2007), German composer, organist
Notable faculty •
Adolph Brodsky (1851–1929), Russian violinist, later Principal of the
Royal Manchester College of Music •
Ferdinand David (1810–1873), German violin virtuoso and composer •
Johann Nepomuk David (1895–1977), Austrian composer •
Karl Davydov (1838–1889), Russian cellist •
Niels Gade (1817–1890), Danish composer •
Friedrich Grützmacher (1832–1903), German cellist •
Moritz Hauptmann (1792–1868), German composer and writer;
Thomaskantor •
Diethard Hellmann (1928–1999), German organist and choral conductor •
Peter Herrmann (1941–2015), German composer •
Salomon Jadassohn (1831–1902), German composer •
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877–1933), German composer •
Julius Klengel (1859–1933), German cellist •
Paul Klengel (1854–1935), German violinist, pianist, composer •
Kolja Lessing (born 1961), German violinist, pianist, composer and academic teacher •
Fabien Lévy (1968– ), Composer •
Kurt Masur (1927–2015), German conductor •
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847), German composer, pianist and Music Director of the
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Founder •
Ignaz Moscheles (1794–1870), Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso •
Oscar Paul (1836–1898), German musicologist and writer •
Günther Ramin (1898–1956), German composer, organist, cembalist, conductor, Thomaskantor •
Max Reger (1873–1917), German composer, conductor, pianist and organist •
Carl Reinecke (1824–1910), Danish composer, conductor, and pianist •
Julius Rietz (1812–1877), German cellist, composer and conductor •
Ernst Friedrich Richter, German music theorist; Thomaskantor •
Wilhelm Rust, German musicologist and composer; Thomaskantor •
Richard Sahla (1855–1931) Austrian violin virtuoso, conductor and composer •
Friedrich Schneider (1786–1853), German composer and conductor •
Gustav Schreck, German music educator and composer; Thomaskantor •
Clara Schumann (1819–1896), German pianist, teacher, and composer •
Robert Schumann (1810–1856), German composer, aesthete and influential music critic •
Hans Sitt (1850–1922), German violinist and composer •
Karl Straube, German Organist and choral conductor; Thomaskantor •
Wolfgang Unger (1948–2004), choral conductor, director of
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