WOskar Back was a noted Austrian-born Dutch classical violinist and pedagogue. He taught at the Amsterdam Conservatory for 42 years, and also had a significant earlier teaching career in Belgium.
WIgnaz Brüll was a Moravian-born pianist and composer who lived and worked in Vienna.
WLuisa Kapp-Young, was an Austrian dramatic operatic soprano, musical educator, and essayist who used the principle of the Aeolian harp emission of tone, which excluded all effort in the throat, and preserved the voice.
WFranz Xaver Chwatal was a Bohemian pianist, composer and music teacher.
WAnton Door was an Austrian pianist and music educator, also known in Russia as Anton Andreyevich Door.
WEmanuel Feuermann was an internationally celebrated cellist in the first half of the 20th century.
WEmanuel Aloys Förster was a composer and music teacher, who spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria.
WJohann Nepomuk Fuchs was an Austrian composer, opera conductor, teacher and editor. His editorial work included an important role in the preparation of the first complete edition of Schubert's works. He was an older brother of the composer Robert Fuchs.
WAugust Göllerich was an Austrian pianist, conductor, music educator and music writer. He studied the piano with Franz Liszt, who made him also his secretary and companion on concert tours. Göllerich is known for studying the life and work of Anton Bruckner whose secretary and friend he was. He initiated and conducted concerts of Bruckner's music in Linz, and wrote an influential biography.
WLeopold Jansa was a Bohemian violinist, composer, and teacher.
WFrida Kern née Seitz was an Austrian composer. She was born in Vienna and grew up in Linz, studying piano with Anna Zappa, and later at the Linz Music Academy with August Göllerich.
WEgon Kornauth was an Austrian composer and music teacher.
WJoseph Merk was a noted Austrian cellist, often described as one of the most influential of the first half of the 19th century. He also wrote a number of compositions for the cello.
WJohann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, conductor, music teacher, and violinist. Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.
WErnst Pauer was an Austrian pianist, composer and educator.
WAnna Pessiak-Schmerling was an Austrian composer born in Vienna.
WPeter Planyavsky is an Austrian organist and composer. He attended the Schottengymnasium. After graduating from the Vienna Academy of Music in 1966 he spent a year in an organ workshop, and has been instrumental in organ-building projects, notably the construction of the Rieger organ in the Great Hall of the Wiener Musikverein. In 1968 he was appointed organist in the Upper Austrian Stift Schlägl, and the following year organist at Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. From 1983 until 1990 Planyavsky was their director of music, with overall responsibility for church music at the cathedral.
WManfred Maria Porsch is a composer of Austrian contemporary worship music and a teacher.
WFranz Xaver Paul Rigler (Riegler) was an Austrian piano virtuoso, composer, teacher and theorist.
WMartin Rummel is an Austrian cellist, currently living in Auckland.
WMarkus Schirmer is an Austrian pianist.
WArtur Schnabel was an Austrian-American classical pianist, composer and pedagogue. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura. Among the 20th century's most respected and important pianists, his playing displayed marked vitality, profundity and spirituality in the Austro-German classics, particularly the works of Beethoven and Schubert.
WSimon Sechter was an Austrian music theorist, teacher, organist, conductor and composer. He was one of the most prolific composers who ever lived, although his music is largely forgotten and he is now mainly remembered as a strict music teacher, most notably of Anton Bruckner.
WBernhard Sieberer is an Austrian choirmaster and conductor.
WHans Swarowsky was an Austrian conductor of Hungarian birth.
WJosef Wallnig is an Austrian conductor. He studied piano and composition at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Mozarteum in Salzburg, and also studied piano, composition, and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien.
WPaul Weingarten, Ph.D. was a Moravia-born pianist and music teacher.
WLeonore Helene Wildbrunn was an Austrian operatic soprano. She was a celebrated Wagnerian singer, possessing a wide vocal range and dramatic creativity and fine sense of style. She made her debut in 1907 at the Stadttheater Dortmund as a contralto and mezzo-soprano. She performed at the Stuttgart Court Opera from 1914 to 1918, the Berlin State Opera from 1919 to 1925, the Städtische Oper Berlin from 1925 to 1932, and the Vienna State Opera from 1919 until 1932. From 1932 to 1950, she only appeared as a concert singer, and taught at the Vienna Music Academy as a professor.