> Prior to the 19th century, conductors of the modern kind did not exist. Not quite: https://www.thepiano.sg/piano/read/conductor-killed-conducting-staff-ironi

> Prior to the 19th century, conductors of the modern kind did not exist. Not quite: https://www.thepiano.sg/piano/read/conductor-killed-conducting-staff-ironic-death-jean-baptiste-lully https://www.thepiano.sg/piano/read/conductor-killed-conducti... Anyhow: I haven't sat with an instrument before a conductor, but I have been in the chorus. A huge part of their work happens in rehearsal, not at the concert. when you see them gesture to the horns or woodwinds, he's already told them what he means by that, and they've written it in their scores.