Lijst van bekende altviolisten:

 

Giuseppe Torelli (1658–1709), leraar, componist

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), componist

František Benda (1709–1786), componist

Johann Stamitz (1717–1757), componist

Jiří Antonín Benda (1722–1795), componist

Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), componist

Jan Křtitel Vaňhal (1739–1813)

Carl Stamitz (1745–1801), componist

William Shield (1748–1829)

Anton Stamitz (1750–c.1800), componist

Bartolomeo Campagnoli (1751–1827), pedagoog, componist,

Joseph Schubert (1754–1837), componist

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), componist

Alessandro Rolla (1757–1841), componist

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), componist

Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840), componist, violist en altist

Alexandre Pierre François Boëly (1785–1858), componist

Chrétien Urhan (1790–1845), pedagoog, componist (creëerde Harold en Italie - H.Berlioz)

Franz Schubert (1797–1828), componist

Karl Traugott Queisser (1800–1846) Gewandthaus Quartett 1824

Casimir Ney (1801–1877) solist, componist

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809–1847), componist

Matthias Durst (1815–1875),  componist

Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1880), virtuoos, componist

Mitrofan Belyayev (1836–1904), componist

Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904), componist

Hans Sitt (1850–1922), componist en pedagoog

Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931), virtuoos, componist

Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858–1921) altiste, vriendin Mahler

Willy Hess (1859–1939), pedagoog, solist

Sir Hugh Allen (1869–1946), dirigent

Cecil Forsyth (1870–1941), musicoloog, componist

Oskar Nedbal (1874–1930), componist en dirigent

Pierre Monteux (1875–1964), dirigent

Lionel Tertis (1876–1975), virtuoos

Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936), componist

Henri Casadesus (1879–1947), muziekuitgever

Frank Bridge (1879–1941), componist

Maurice Vieux (1884–1951),pedagoog,componist

Eric Coates (1886–1957), componist

Michael Balling (1886–1925)

Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979), componiste

Hermann Scherchen (1891–1966), dirigent & muziekpedagoog

Philip Sainton (1891–1967), componist, dirigent

Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), componist, solist, pedagoog

Vadim Borisovsky (1900–1972) pedagoog, solist

Lillian Fuchs (1901–1995) componist, pedagoge

Tibor Serly (1901–1978), componist & pedagoog

Tosca Kramer (1903–1976)

William Primrose (1904–1982)

Jef Maes (1905–1996), componist & pedagoog

Max Rostal (1905–1991),pedagoog

Ödön Pártos (1907–1977), componist

Miklós Rózsa (1907–1995), composer

David Oistrakh (1908–1974),virtuoos, pedagoog

Milton Katims (1909–2006), dirigent

Milton Preves (1909–2000)

Otto Joachim (1910-2010), componist

Allan Pettersson (1911–1980), componist

Paul Rolland (1911–1977), pedagoog

Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), componist

Gyula Dávid (1913–1977), componist

Jack Delano (1914–1997), composer

Carlo Maria Giulini (1914–2005), dirigent

Raphael Hillyer (b.1914) solist, pedagoog

Victor Legley (1915–1994), componist & pedagoog

Walter Trampler (1915–1997)

Ernest Llewellyn (1915–1982) dirigent

Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), virtuoos, pedagoog

Paul Doktor (1917–1989)

Joseph de Pasquale (b.1919)

Karen Tuttle (1920-2010) pedagoge

Dino Asciolla (1920–1994) solist

Václav Neumann (1920–1995), dirigent

Luigi Sagrati (1921–2008)

Franz Beyer (b.1922)

Peter Schidlof (1922–1987)

Rudolf Barshai (1924-2010), solist & dirigent

Daniel Benyamini (1925–1993)

Wayne Crouse (1924–2000)

Miroslav Miletić (b.1925), componist

Josef Suk (1929-2011),componist, pedagoog en solist

Roland Vamos (1930)

Fyodor Druzhinin (1932–2007)

Leroy Jenkins (1932–2007)

Michael Tree (b.1934)

Charles Dutoit (b.1936), dirigent

John Harbison (b.1938), componist

Thomas Kakuska (1940–2005)

Jaime Laredo (b.1941)

Martha Strongin Katz (b.1942)

John Cale (b.1942)

Nobuko Imai (b.1943)

Uri Mayer (b.1946), dirigent

Michael Kugel (b.1946)

Rivka Golani (b.1946)

Pinchas Zukerman (b.1948)

Gérard Caussé (b.1948)

Rosemary Glyde (1948–1994), componist

Robert Vernon (b.1949)

Simon Rowland-Jones (b.1950)

Kim Kashkashian (b.1952)

Steven Dann (b.1953)

Yuri Bashmet (b.1953)

Roger Chase (b.1953)

Nigel Keay (b.1955), composer

Steven Ansell (b.1954)

Lawrence Dutton (b.1954)

Nigel Kennedy (b.1956)

Shlomo Mintz (b.1957)

Harold Levin (b.1956)

Paul Coletti (b.1959)

Jean Sulem (b.1959)

Roberto Díaz (b.1960)

Jocelyn Pook (b.1960), componist

Brett Dean (b.1961)

Paul Neubauer (b.1962)

Michael Twomey (b.1963)

John Metcalfe (b.1964)

Clara Petrozzi-Stubin (b.1965) componiste

 

Tabea Zimmermann (b.1966)

Yehonatan Berick (b.1968)

Ashan Pillai (b.1969)

Scott St. John (b.1969)

John Webb (b.1969), composer

Ralph Farris (b.1970)
 

lga Goija

Sheila Browne (b.1971)

Ari Poutiainen (b.1972)

Paul Reynolds (b.1973)

Franck Chevalier (b.1973)

Maxim Vengerov (b.1974)

Julian Rachlin (b.1974)

Scott Slapin (b.1974)

Tania Davis (b.1975)

James Lowe (b.1976), conductor

Cathy Basrak (b.1977)

Michael Klotz (b.1978)

Lev Zhurbin (b.1978), composer

Julia Rebekka Adler (b.1978)

Peter Bucknell (b.1977)

Sila Eser (b.1979)

David Aaron Carpenter (b.1986)