Honorary Presidents

• Bruno Walter (1955)
• Erwin Ratz (1973)
• Rainer Bischof (2015)

Honorary Members

• Maurice Abravanel (1966)
• Sir John Barbirolli (1959)
• Eduard van Beinum (1956)
• Leonard Bernstein (1957)
• Heinz Bongartz (1966)
• Sir Adrian Boult (1958)
• Harold Byrns (1956)
• Dean Dixon (1966)
• Eduard Flipse (1957)
• Marius Flothuis (1963)
• Bernard Haitink (1962)
• Sir Bernard Heinze (1962)
• Jascha Horenstein (1957)
• Paul Huppert (1966)
• Otto Klemperer (1956)
• Paul Kletzki (1957)
• Hidemaro Konoe (1960)
• Gustav Koslik (1963)
• Henry Krips (1963)
• Josef Krips (1964)
• Rafael Kubelík (1956)
• Ernst Krenek (1956)
• Bruno Maderna (1962)
• Alma Mahler (1955)
• Anna Mahler (1955)
• Rudolf Mengelberg (1956)
• Dimitri Mitropoulos (1957)
• Vaclav Neumann
• Herman J. Nieman
• Eugene Ormandy (1957)
• Willem van Otterloo (1959)
• Klaus Pringsheim (1956)
• Eduard Reeser
• Hans Rosbaud (1956)
• Joseph Rosenstock (1957)
• Alfred Rosé (1957)
• Ernest Rosé (1956)
• Maria Rosé (1957)
• Wolfgang Rosé (1957)
• Carl Schuricht
• Rudolf Schwarz (1959)
• Eric Simon
• Georg Solti (1957)
• William Steinberg (1957)
• Fritz Stiedry (1957)
• Leopold Stokowski (1957)
• Hans Swarowsky (1958)
• George Szell
• Eugen Szenkar (1958)
• Josef Trauneck
• Heinz Unger
• Franz Waxman (1957)
• Winfried Zillig (1959)