Top 10 Italian Classical Musicians

The Top Ten
1 Antonio Vivaldi

Famous work: The Four Seasons

2 Giuseppe Verdi
3 Niccolò Paganini

Also known as the "devil's violinist"

4 Giacomo Puccini
5 Gioachino Rossini

He wrote 39 operas and some other classical pieces.
Best known opera: The Barber of Seville (comedy)

6 Enrico Caruso Enrico Caruso was an Italian operatic tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles from the Italian and French repertoires that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic.

He was an opera singer (tenor)

7 Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone (10 November 1928 – 6 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpeter who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works, Morricone is widely considered one of the most prolific and greatest film composers of all time. His filmography includes more than 70 award-winning films, all Sergio Leone's films since A Fistful of Dollars, all Giuseppe Tornatore's films since Cinema Paradiso, The Battle of Algiers, Dario Argento's Animal Trilogy, 1900, Exorcist II, Days of Heaven, several major films in French cinema, in particular the comedy trilogy La Cage aux Folles I, II, ...read more.

He is somewhat known even in America

8 Luciano Pavarotti Luciano Pavarotti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce was an Italian operatic tenor who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time.

The finest and the most brilliant voice you'll ever hear.

Italians do it best!

9 Arturo Toscanini
10 Claudio Abbado

A modern conductor

The Contenders
11 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

He is a pianist known for his cold, static playing style. I like his interpretations of Debussy's Images, he highlights the hidden stress in them.

12 Giuseppe Tartini
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