List of Austrian musicians
This is a list of Austrian composers, singers, conductors and bands:
A
- Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, composer and music theorist
- August Wilhelm Ambros, composer
- Wolfgang Ambros, singer
B
- Paul Badura-Skoda, pianist
- Caroline Bayer, violinist and composer
- Johanna Beisteiner, classical guitarist
- Alban Berg, composer, born in Vienna
- Walter Berry, bass-baritone
- Bilderbuch, band
- Karl Böhm, conductor
- Norbert Brainin, violinist
- Alfred Brendel, pianist
- Anton Bruckner, composer
C
- Amalia Carneri, Polish-born soprano opera singer
- Friedrich Cerha, composer and conductor
- Meena Cryle, singer and composer
- Carl Czerny, pianist and composer
D
- Johann Nepomuk David, composer
- Anton Diabelli, publisher, editor and composer
- Wolfgang Dimetrik, classical accordionist
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer
- Nico Dostal, composer
E
- Gottfried von Einem, composer
- Karlheinz Essl, composer and electronic musician
F
- Falco,, pop musician
- Rainhard Fendrich, singer
- Christian Fennesz, electronic musician
- Rudolf Fitzner, violinist and music teacher
- Gerhard Friedle better known by the stage name DJ Ötzi, dance pop musician and DJ
- Camilla Frydan, pianist, soubrette singer, composer and songwriter
- Robert Fuchs, composer and music scientist
- Johann Fux, composer
G
- Bernhard Gál, composer and artist
- Ernest Gold, composer
- Franz Gruber, composer
- Gerhard Gruber, pianist and composer
- Heinz Karl Gruber, composer
- Friedrich Gulda, pianist and composer
- Rico Gulda, pianist and conductor
H
- Georg Friedrich Haas, composer of contemporary classical music
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt, famous contemporary conductor, mainly of early music
- Josef Matthias Hauer, composer and music theorist
- Joseph Haydn, author of "Imperial Hymn" now German Anthem
- Michael Haydn, composer
- Hansi Hinterseer, singer
- Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer
- Roman Hofstetter, composer
- Wolfgang Holzmair, baritone
J
- Hanns Jelinek, composer
- JJ, singer-songwriter, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025
- Udo Jürgens, singer-songwriter, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1966
- Walter Jurmann, composer
K
- Franz Kalchmair, opera singer
- Herbert von Karajan, conductor
- King Electric, pop duo
- Carlos Kleiber, conductor, son of Erich Kleiber
- Erich Kleiber, conductor
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer
- Fritz Kreisler, violinist and composer
- Ernst Krenek, composer
- Kruder & Dorfmeister, DJ and producer duo
L
- Bill Leeb, of Front Line Assembly. Born in Vienna, but currently lives in Vancouver, Canada
- György Ligeti, composer
- Lukas Ligeti, composer
- Franz Liszt, composer
M
- Gustav Mahler, composer, conductor
- Marianna Martines, composer, singer
- Johann Kaspar Mertz, guitarist and composer
- Felix Mottl, conductor and composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer and musician, born in Salzburg
N
- Olga Neuwirth, composer
O
P
- Franz Pomassl, electronic musician and sonic artist
R
- Emil von Reznicek, composer
- Marcel Rubin, composer
S
- Franz Schmidt, composer
- Arnold Schoenberg, composer
- Franz Schubert, composer and musician
- Hedi Stadlen, musicologist
- Max Steiner, composer, born in Vienna
- Johann Strauss, Sr., composer
- Johann Strauss, Jr., composer
- Josef Strauss, composer
- Heinz Strobl, composer and artist, goes by the name of Gandalf
- Franz von Suppé, composer, born in Split, Austrian Empire
- Hermann Szobel, jazz fusion composer
T
- von Trapp, family of famous folk music vocalists and Anschluss refugees in 1938 and the main subjects of two 1950's German films named for them, The Trapp Family and its sequel The Trapp Family in America the first of which premiered in the U.S. in 1961, and of 1965's The Sound of Music.
V
- Johann Michael Vogl, baritone
W
- Josef Wagner, composer, known for military marches
- Wanda, band
- Stefan Weber, singer
- Anton Webern, composer
- Felix Weingartner, conductor, composer, pianist
- Egon Joseph Wellesz, composer, pupil of Arnold Schoenberg
- Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
- Hugo Wolf, composer
- Peter Wolf, producer
- Conchita Wurst, singer, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014
Z
- Joe Zawinul, jazz musician, composer, born in Vienna
- Erich Zeisl, modernist composer
- Alexander von Zemlinsky, composer and conductor