1. Carl Czerny (1791)

Austrian Musician

Composer whose etudes became standard use in pianistic pedagogy. Forgotten for a time, he was later rediscovered.

2. Henri Herz (1803)

Austrian Musician

France-based musician who hid his Jewish heritage from the public for fear of anti-Semitism among the 19th-century French cultural elite.

3. Theodor Billroth (1829)

Austrian Musician

Viennese surgeon who pioneered abdominal surgery and authored many influential texts on medicine.

4. Paul Badura-Skoda (1927)

Austrian Musician

Austrian pianist who was known for his wide-ranging repertoire, based in Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, as well as his prolific recording career.

5. Ingrid Haebler (1929)

Austrian Musician

Internationally known musician who was admired for recordings she made from the 1950s until the 1980s.

6. Julian Rachlin (1974)

Austrian Musician

Winner of the 1988 Eurovision Young Musician of the Year Award and the 2000 International Prize of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana of Siena.

7. Christian Eigner (1971)

Austrian Musician

Drummer, composer, and alternative musician who began playing with Depeche Mode in 1997.

8. DJ Ötzi (1971)

Austrian Musician

Austrian singer who became a sensation in German-speaking countries in the late 90's with singles like "Anton Aus Tirol," which hit the top of the singles charts in Austria. In...

9. Thomas Leeb (1977)

Austrian Musician

Austrian fingerstyle guitarist known for his performances and recordings, as well as for his career as a music teacher.

10. Thomas Lang (1967)

Austrian Musician

Session drummer and founding member of the avant garde metal group stOrk.

11. Thomas Gansch (1975)

Austrian Musician

Renowned Austrian trumpeter and founder of the Gansch & Roses band. He also played with the famous Vienna Art Orchestra.

12. Wolfgang Dimetrik (1974)

Austrian Musician

gang Dimetrik is an Austrian accordionist. At the age of six he received his first accordion lessons. Five years later he became a pupil of Prof Erwin Moder at the...

13. Bogdan Bacanu (1975)

Austrian Musician

International Marimba Soloist Bogdan Bacanu became a professor for marimba at the famous Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz at just 23 years old of age.

14. Erika Morini (1904)

Austrian Musician

Erika Morini was a Jewish Austrian violinist.

15. Alice Harnoncourt (1930)

Austrian Musician

Alice Harnoncourt is a violinist. She is noted for her playing of the Baroque violin viol and other stringed instruments. In 1953 she and her husband Nikolaus Harnoncourt founded the...

16. Soap&Skin (1990)

Austrian Musician

Soap&Skin is the experimental musical project of Austrian artist Anja Plaschg.

17. Herwig Mitteregger (1953)

Austrian Musician

Herwig Rudolf Mitteregger is an Austrian musician. He became known with the Nina Hagen Band. He lives in Hamburg Germany. He was also a member of German rock band Spliff....

18. Thomas Spitzer (1953)

Austrian Musician

Thomas Spitzer is a lyricist composer singer guitarist and graphic designer. He is a founding member and head of the band Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung whose lyrics album artwork and illustrations...

19. Philipp Richardsen (1976)

Austrian Musician

Philipp Jens Richardsen is an Austrian classical pianist.

20. Konrad Becker (1959)

Austrian Musician

Konrad Becker is a hypermedia researcher and interdisciplinary content developer Director of the Institute for New Culture Technologies-t0 and initiator of Public Netbase and World-Information. Org. Since 1979 he has...

21. Heinrich Schiff (1951)

Austrian Musician

Heinrich Schiff is an Austrian cellist and conductor. He studied cello with Tobias Kühne and André Navarra and made his solo debut in Vienna and London in 1971. He studied...

22. Roland Batik (1951)

Austrian Musician

Roland Batik is an Austrian pianist composer jazz musician and piano teacher. In the style of his compositions he is seeking a fusion of classical elements with Jazz. Among other...

23. Peter Cornelius (musician) (1951)

Austrian Musician

Peter Cornelius is an Austrian pop-singer guitarist and a former member of Enigma.

24. Christian Muthspiel (1962)

Austrian Musician

Christian Muthspiel is an Austrian composer trombonist and pianist most associated with jazz. He started with the piano at six and began study of the trombone at 11. From 1987...

25. Otto Lechner (1964)

Austrian Musician

Otto Lechner is an Austrian accordionist. Lechner taught himself to play the accordion starting at age four. He has been blind since age 15. Lechner is currently a member of...

26. Curd Duca (1955)

Austrian Musician

Curd Duca is an Austrian musician composer and producer of electronic music.

27. Ernst Ottensamer (1955)

Austrian Musician

Ernst Ottensamer is a classical clarinetist. He was born at Wallern in Upper Austria and studied the clarinet at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz before moving to Vienna Musikhochschule where...

28. Thomas Rabitsch (1956)

Austrian Musician

Thomas Rabitsch is an Austrian keyboardist and record producer.

29. Rico Gulda (1968)

Austrian Musician

Rico Gulda is an Austrian classical pianist and producer. The son of the renowned enigmatic pianist Friedrich Gulda and Yuko Wakiyama Rico grew up in Munich Germany and began taking...

30. Martin Schirenc (1968)

Austrian Musician

Martin Schirenc is an Austrian guitarist and vocalist best known as a founder of death metal/grindcore band Pungent Stench and symphonic death metal band Hollenthon. His former wife Elena is...

31. Andrew Edge (1956)

Austrian Musician

Andrew Edge is a musician from Leeds England. He moved to London in the late 1970s and joined the Thompson Twins. After one year Edge left the group and joined...

32. Helmuth Lehner (1968)

Austrian Musician

Helmuth Lehner is the singer and guitarist of the blackened death metal band Belphegor. Lehner is best known as the frontman guitarist and a founding member of Austrian blackened death...

33. Wolfgang Sauseng (1956)

Austrian Musician

gang Sauseng is an Austrian composer conductor and organist.

34. Burkhard Stangl (1960)

Austrian Musician

Burkhard Stangl is a composer and musician currently residing in Vienna Austria. Playing primarily guitar and electronics he is a prolific performer in the world of electro-acoustic improvisation having participated...

35. Harri Stojka (1957)

Austrian Musician

Harri Stojka is a Viennese jazz guitarist. He comes from the diasporic Lovara-Roma dynasty of the Bagareschtschi clan. In the 80s he played in Montreux with the likes of Larry...

36. Manfred Hausleitner (1957)

Austrian Musician

Manfred Hausleitner is an Austrian drummer.

37. Michi Gaigg (1957)

Austrian Musician

Michi Gaigg is an Austrian violinist and conductor. She is founder and conductor of the Baroque orchestras L'arpa festante and L'Orfeo.

38. Christof Unterberger (1970)

Austrian Musician

Christof Unterberger is an Austrian cellist and composer.

39. Kerim Lechner (1989)

Austrian Musician

Kerim Krimh Lechner is an Austrian musician best known for his drumming work for Polish death metal band Decapitated. Before joining Decapitated Lechner played in symphonic black metal band Thorns...

40. Franz Salmhofer (1900)

Austrian Musician

z Salmhofer was an Austrian composer clarinetist conductor and poet. He studied the clarinet composition and musicology in Vienna and was a pupil of Franz Schreker and Franz Schmidt. From...

41. Jakob Lorber (1800)

Austrian Musician

Jakob Lorber was a Christian mystic and visionary from the Duchy of Styria who promoted liberal Universalism. He referred to himself as God's scribe. He wrote that on 15 March...

42. Louie Austen (1946)

Austrian Musician

Louie Austen is an Austrian classically trained bar and jazz crooner who has been active in the electronic music scene.

43. Till Fellner (1972)

Austrian Musician

Till Fellner is an Austrian pianist.

44. Christopher Hinterhuber (1973)

Austrian Musician

Christopher Hinterhuber is an Austrian classical pianist.

45. Stefan Obermaier (1981)

Austrian Musician

Stefan Obermaier is an Austrian electronic musician producer and DJ. Born in Schwarzach/Pongau in Salzburg Stefan Obermaier lives and works in Vienna since 2001. He produces different house music styles...

46. Gerald Gradwohl (1967)

Austrian Musician

Gerald Gradwohl is an Austrian guitarist who performed with Tangerine Dream from 1995 through 1999 while appearing on the CDs Tyranny of Beauty Goblins' Club and Mars Polaris. He attended...

47. Peter Havlicek (1963)

Austrian Musician

Peter Havlicek is an Austrian musician - Kontragitarre jazz guitar composition vocals.

48. Veronika Hagen (1963)

Austrian Musician

Veronika Hagen is an Austrian violist.

49. Wolfgang Muthspiel (1965)

Austrian Musician

gang Muthspiel is an Austrian jazz guitarist and composer. He is the brother of the trombonist and pianist Christian Muthspiel. He started playing the violin at six and began study...

50. Albin Julius (1967)

Austrian Musician

Albin Julius is an Austrian martial music and industrial artist; his primary musical project is called Der Blutharsch. Julius founded the history-themed folk-based ensemble The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a...