Classical Composers
Many well-known classical composers were also virtuoso pianists. The following is an incomplete list of such musicians.
- Isaac Albéniz
- Charles-Valentin Alkan
- Béla Bartók
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Leonard Bernstein
- Johannes Brahms
- Ferruccio Busoni
- Frédéric Chopin
- Claude Debussy
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel
- Franz Liszt
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Anton Rubinstein
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Robert Schumann
- Alexander Scriabin
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Carl Maria von Weber
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