Favorite conductors for composers


Who are your favorite conductors for certain classical composers. I am a new to the classical world and am interested in what you feel makes a specific conductor a great match for a specific composer.
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Another vote for Karajan's Beethoven. His 1963 cycle is a masterpiece.
Bruno Walter and George Szell also for Beethoven.
Mahler...Bernstein, Walter, Furtwängler, Boulez, Claudio Abbado.
Bruckner...Furtwängler, Giulini.
Brahms...Bruno Walter, Toscanini, Carlo Maria Giulini.
Tchaikovsky...Bernstein.
Sibelius...Karajan, Eugene Ormandy.
Schubert...Edward Gardiner, Charles Munch, Claudio Abbado.

Vladimir Ashskenazy for Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff.

Bernard Haitink, one of the best modern conductors.