instrumentalist, musician, player - someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)

Bartok, Bela Bartok - Hungarian composer and pianist who collected Hungarian folk music; in 1940 he moved to the United States (1881-1945)

Blitzstein, Marc Blitzstein - United States pianist and composer of operas and musical plays (1905-1964)

Frederic Francois Chopin, Chopin - French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school (1810-1849)

Czerny, Karl Czerny - Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer of many works for the piano; studied with Beethoven and was a teacher of Liszt (1791-1857)

Falla, Manuel de Falla - Spanish composer and pianist (1876-1946)

Dame Myra Hess, Hess - English pianist (1890-1965)

Horowitz, Vladimir Horowitz - Russian concert pianist who was a leading international virtuoso (1904-1989)

Jerry Lee Lewis, Lewis - United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935)

Franz Liszt, Liszt - Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso (1811-1886)

Ignace Jan Paderewski, Ignace Paderewski, Paderewski - Polish pianist who in 1919 served as the first Prime Minister of independent Poland (1860-1941)

Rachmaninoff, Rachmaninov, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff, Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov - composer and piano virtuoso born in Russia (1873-1943)

Anton Gregor Rubinstein, Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein, Anton Rubenstein, Rubinstein - Russian composer and pianist (1829-1894)

Arthur Rubinstein, Artur Rubinstein, Rubinstein - United States pianist (born in Poland) known for his interpretations of the music of Chopin (1886-1982)

Charles Camille Saint-Saens, Saint-Saens - French pianist and composer (1835-1921)

Artur Schnabel, Schnabel - United States composer (born in Austria) and pianist noted for his interpretations of the works of Mozart and Beethoven and Schubert (1882-1951)

Clara Josephine Schumann, Schumann - German pianist and composer of peiano music; renowned for her interpretation of music, especially the music of her husband Robert Schumann (1819-1896)

Rudolf Serkin, Serkin - United States concert pianist (born in Czechoslovakia) (1903-1991)