The following lists of violinists are available:
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List of classical violinists
This is a list of notable classical violinists from the baroque era to the 21st century.
For a more comprehensive list of contemporary classical violinists, see List of contemporary classical violinists.
Baroque era
* Johann Sebastian Bach (16 ...
, notable violinists from the baroque era onwards
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List of contemporary classical violinists
This is a list of notable contemporary classical violinists.
For the names of notable violinists of all classical music eras see List of classical violinists.
Classical violinists
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* Rochelle Abramson
* Irene Abrigo (born 1988)
* Salvato ...
, notable contemporary classical violinists
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List of violinist/composers
This is a list of Wikipedia articles on notable violinist/composers. This is a person prominent as ''both'' a violinist and a composer. For example: Jean Sibelius is not considered a violinist/composer, despite the fact that he played the violin, ...
, list of violinists who were also classical music composers
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List of jazz violinists
This is a list of jazz violinists who have become notable. Jazz violin is the use of the violin or electric violin to improvise solo lines. The earliest references to jazz performance using the violin as a solo instrument was during the first deca ...
, notable jazz violinists
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List of popular music violinists
This is a list of notable popular music violinists including fiddlers.
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* Shadmehr Aghili (hip hop, Persian classic, western classic)
*Armen Anassian (Armenian)
*Laurie Anderson (experimental)
*Darol Anger (jazz, "psychograss")
*Gilles Apap ( ...
, popular music violinists
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List of Indian violinists
There are two styles of violin playing in India: the Carnatic and the Hindustani. Carnatic violinists such as Malaikkottai Govindaswamy Pillai, Tirukkodikaval Krishna Iyer and Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu performed concerts as early as the 1900. ...
, list of Indian violinists including Carnatic and Hindustani
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List of Persian violinists {{short description, None
This a list of notable Persian style violinists.
Persian violinists
* Abolhasan Saba (1902–1957)
*Parviz Yahaghi (1936–2007)
* Ruhollah Khaleghi (1906–1965)
*Ali-Naqi Vaziri (1887–1979)
* Ali Tajvidi (1919–2006) ...
, names of famous Persian style violinists
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List of electric violinists
This is a list of violinists notable for their work with electric violin.
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* Ed Alleyne-Johnson
* Laurie Anderson
* Emilie Autumn
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* Balabhaskar
* Jenny Bae
* Billy Bang
* Randy Benson
* Andrew Bird
* Charlie Bisharat
* Urban Blitz of D ...
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List of fiddlers
This list of notable fiddlers shows some overlap with the list of violinists since the instrument used by fiddlers is the violin.
Alphabetical by last name
By style North American Canadian styles
Mexican styles
US styles
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, fiddlers, all styles
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List of female violinists
This is a chronological list of female classical professional concert violinists. Those without a known date of birth are listed separately in alphabetical order.
Sortable list
Total listed:
Sortable list for those without known birthdate
To ...
, sortable list of female classical violinists, in chronological order of birth
See also
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List of violists
This is a list of Wikipedia articles on notable viola players. In cases where a violist has also achieved fame in another musical area, such as conducting or composing, this is noted.
Notable violists
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* Tasso Adamopoulos (1944–2021)
* J ...
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Violin
The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...