List of violinists: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

This is a list of violinists, i.e. players of the violin.

Composer-violinists were common in the Baroque era:

• Tomaso Albinoni (1671 - 1751)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
• Heinrich Ignaz Biber (1644 - 1704)
• Arcangelo Corelli (1653 - 1713)
• Evaristo Felice dall'Abaco (1675 - 1742)
• Francesco Geminiani (1687 - 1762)
• Pietro Locatelli (1695 - 1765)
• Michele Mascitti (1663 - 1760)
• Pietro Nardini
• Heinrich Schmelzer (1623 - 1680)
• Giuseppe Tartini (1692 - 1770)
• Giuseppe Torelli
• Francesco Maria Veracini (1690 - 1768)
• Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632 - 1692)
• Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)
• Johann Jakob Walther (1650 - 1717)

In the early 19th century, Niccoló Paganini did much to expand the instrument's technique. Other notable 19th century violinists include Pierre Rode, Joseph Joachim (who was friends with Johannes Brahms), Leopold Auer (who taught many famous violinists of following generations), Pablo de Sarasate, Henri Vieuxtemps, Eugene Ysaye and Henryk Wieniawski.

Among significant later players are:

• Salvatore Accardo
• Gilles Apap
• Joshua Bell (1967 -
• Vera Beths
• Lola Bobesco (1923 - 2003)
• Willi Boskovsky (1909 – 1991)
• Iona Brown (1941 - 2004)
• Sarah Chang (1982-
• Stephanie Chase
• Vassar Clements (Bluegrass, Country, Jazz)
• Augustin Dumay(1949 -
• Mischa Elman (1891-1967)
• Carl Flesch (1873 - 1944)
• Zino Francescatti (1902 - 1991)
• Pamela Frank
• Mayumi Fujikawa
• Enrico Gatti
• Ivry Gitlis (1922 -
• Reinhard Goebel Baroque(1952 -
• Arthur Grumiaux (1921 - 1986)
• Ida Haendel (1928 -
• Hilary Hahn (1980 -
• Chloe Hanslip (1987- )
• Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987)
• Bronislav Hubermann (1882 1947)
• Monica Huggett Baroque
• Janine Jansen(1978 -
• Leila Josefowicz (1978 -
• Nigel Kennedy (1956
• Isabelle van Keulen
• Leonid Kogan (1924-1982)
• Herman Krebbers
• Fritz Kreisler (1875 - 1962
• Gidon Kremer (1948 -
• Jan Kubelík (1880-1940)
• Sigiswald Kuijken Baroque
• Rainer Kussmaul (1946 -
• Tasmin Little
• Vanessa Mae (1978
• Eduard Melkus Baroque
• Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999)
• Midori A. (1971
• Nathan Milstein (1903 - 1992)
• Viktoria Mullova (1959 -
• Anne-Sophie Mutter (1963
• Ginette Neveu (1919 – 1949)
• David Oistrakh (1908 - 1974)
• Igor Oistrakh (1931 -
• Theo Olof
• Itzhak Perlman (1945 -
• Jean-Luc Ponty (1942
• Andre Rieu (1949 -
• Oscar Shumsky(1917 - 2000)
• Nils-Erik Sparf
• Simon Standage Baroque
• Isaac Stern (1920 - 2001)
• Josef Suk
• Henryk Szeryng (1918 - 1988)
• Jacques Thibaud (1880 - 1953)
• Maxim Vengerov (1974 -
• Emmy Verhey (1949 -
• Frank Peter Zimmermann (1965 -
• Pinchas Zukerman (1948 -
• Jaap van Zweden Baroque(1960 -

Popular music violinist, including fiddlers

• Tracy Bonham (alternative rock)
• Polly Bradfield (jazz)
• Vassar Clements (Bluegrass, Country, Jazz)
• Mark Feldman (jazz)
• Henry Flynt (classical hillbilly)
• Stephane Grappelli (jazz)
• Petra Haden (alternative rock)
• Eyvind Kang (jazz and classical)
• Carla Kihlstedt (jazz)
• madfiddler - Mark Knight (alternative rock)
• Didier Lockwood (jazz)
• Ashley MacIsaac (Scottish-Canadian fiddling)
• Natalie McMaster (Scottish-Canadian fiddling)
• Stuff Smith, (jazz)
• Joe Venuti (jazz)