Composer-performers

This is a list of notable composers who are also notable as performers (conductors or soloists) of others' music.

Conductors

• Granville Bantock
• Leonard Bernstein
• Benjamin Britten, Lord Britten
• Max Bruch
• Berthold Goldschmidt
• Hamilton Harty
• Constant Lambert
• Gustav Mahler
• Felix Mendelssohn
• Richard Strauss
• John Williams, film composer and conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra

Pianists

• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Ferruccio Busoni
• Frederic Chopin
• Franz Liszt
• Andre Previn (also conductor)
• Sergei Rachmaninov

Violinists

• Fritz Kreisler
• Niccolo Paganini
• Pablo de Sarasate
• Henryk Wieniawski

Cellists

• Luigi Boccherini

Singers

• Richard Tauber

Organists

• Anton Bruckner
• Maurice Durufle
• Charles Marie Widor