WLeo Aberer, also "Leo" or "Leeone", is an Austrian pop singer. He became famous through his participation in the Ö3 soundcheck during the year 2005, the ORF-Show The Match and the preliminary decision of Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with Patricia Kaiser.
WChristian Albert Theodor Billroth was an Austrian surgeon and amateur musician.
WElena Denisova is an Austrian violinist and festival director of Russian descent.
WHugo Gottesmann was an Austrian violinist, violist, conductor, and chamber musician and a highly decorated soldier in World War I. His career in Vienna as a conductor and violinist was cut short when Hitler took office in Germany in 1933. He was fired from his positions at Radio Wien, the Vienna Symphony, and the Academie für Musik and forced to seek work elsewhere in Europe and emigrate to the United States.
WGeorg Hellmesberger Sr. was an Austrian violinist, conductor, and composer.
WIrene Kepl is an Austrian violinist and composer who works in various genres, including free improvisation. In 2014, she was a recipient of the Theodor Körner Prize for music composition. She lives in Vienna.
WChristoph Koncz is an Austrian-Hungarian classical musician. He performs internationally as a conductor, violin soloist, chamber musician and principal violinist of the Vienna Philharmonic. At the age of just nine, he received worldwide acclaim for starring as child prodigy Kaspar Weiss in the Canadian feature film The Red Violin, which won the 1999 Academy Award for Best Original Score.
WLudwig Paul Maria "Luigi" von Kunits (20 July 1870 – 8 October 1931 was a Serbian Canadian conductor, composer, violinist, and pedagogue. Born in Austria, he studied at the Vienna Conservatory. He later moved to Canada where he was the founding conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1922.
WJoseph Mayseder was an Austrian violin virtuoso and composer.
WErika Morini Siracusano was a Jewish Austrian violinist.
WFranz Xaver Pecháček was an Austrian-German violin virtuoso and composer of Bohemian origin. Besides polonaises, variations, Rondos and potpourris for violin and orchestra, he composed two string quartets and the Adagio et Polonaise for clarinet and orchestra.
WHeinrich Proch was an Austrian composer.
WMax Rostal was a violinist and a viola player. He was Austrian-born, but later took British citizenship.
WMarie Soldat-Roeger was a violin master and virtuoso active in orchestral and chamber music in the Vienna of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. A pupil of violin master Joseph Joachim, she was born 'Marie Soldat', but in 1889 married a lawyer named Roeger.
WJela Špitková is a Slovak/Austrian violinist. Spitková is an international concert performer, a role she combines with that of teacher at Vienna Music University, the Banská Bystrica Fine Arts Faculty, “Akademia Umeni Banská Bystrica" and the Academy of Music in Prague. She has recorded more than 900 minutes of music including 30 violin concertos and has global appeal.
WEmmanuel Tjeknavorian is an Austrian violinist and conductor. His father, Loris Tjeknavorian is the famous Iranian-Armenian composer and conductor.
WJosef Waldbauer (1861–1920) was an Austro-Hungarian composer, violinist and music educator.
WMia Zabelka is an Austrian contemporary violinist, improviser, and composer of Czech, Jewish and French familiar background. Comprehensively educated in classical music from early age on she opened up the traditional understanding of the violin as solo and ensemble instrument towards improvisation, experimental music, and sound art.