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Conductors as we know them first appeared in the late classical period, but there had been other types of conductor before that.
The first attempt to keep an orchestra's timing together was trialled in ancient Greece, where the 'conductor' beat the time with a stick, holding the orchestra together. The renaissance saw a return of this idea, where an individual could strike the floor with a stick or their foot, or in some cases tap a book, to keep time. Jean-Baptiste Lully died as a result of this practice. He was conducting a performance celebrating a return from an illness he had, when he accidentally hit his foot with a conducting rod. The wound became infected and he died. In the Baroque period it became more common for a harpsichordist or (rarely) a violinist to keep the piece together. The harosichordist provived a continuo to keep time, while the violinist sometimes played and waved his bow to indicate time when he was not playing. By the waning years of the classical period, the bow had been replaced with a rod and the instrument became useless to the conductor, resulting in the conductor we know today.
Yes and no - during the Baroque period the keyboard player of the continuo was often the one to set the tempo/start the piece, but the role of a stand - up - in - front of the orchestra developed as the orchestra grew in size during the classical period.
Orchestration (synonymous with Instrumentation) is done by an Arranger or Orchestrator, but many composers choose to do their own orchestration. While it is not necessary to be a professional Orchestrator or Arranger to orchestrate, some (and not all, by far) conductors are also capable of, and willing to write orchestrations.
Orchestration is a noun: the verb form is Orchestrate. Tchaikovsky was a master of Orchestration, meaning that he understood the sound of each instrument and how to paint emotion on his listener's heart by using them well, alone and in combinations. He wrote a book titled Orchestration (many great composers have done so) which indicated the best ranges and types of figures each instrument and instrumental group in the orchestra sounded best, and giving advice on how to combine them for best effect. When a composer or conductor analyzes the work of another composer for performance, they will look at the texture, flow, and how it was orchestrated.
Orchestration can be easily confused with Arranging, but Orchestration is just one aspect of Arranging: to arrange a piece/song, you take the melody of the original and create for it a new piece/song, either by making a new arrangement (order of parts, instruments/voices used, new bits introduced, new intros/outtros, etc) or by sticking with the original melody and treatment and just changing one of those facets. An arranger can make an arrangement as simply as taking a song's melody and putting in a different range (transposition), use different accompanying instruments, adding one harmony/counterpart or many, or as complicated as writing an entire orchestration or changing the mode/harmonization, etc. There are many tools available to Arrangers, Orchestration is just one.
That said, professional Orchestrators usually work from a very simplified score indicating the melody and descriptions by the composer of anything from the specific treatment and harmonies/bass to vague "make it sound like the world exploding" sorts of comments. Their services are used both by composers and arrangers.
Conductors are professional orchestra leaders, but they also have all the training necessary to analyze and write music. Many of them have turned this ability to arranging or orchestrating (the most famous examples are probably Leopold Stokowsky, who orchestrated Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, which was used in the original Fantasia movie, and John Williams, who has orchestrated many of the best movies in the last 4 decades. Stokowsky (now deceased) was conductor of the Philadelphia Philharmonic; Williams has been conductor of the Boston Symphony and other major orchestras. Other conductors (Georg Solti among them) focused on Conducting (and often accompanying soloists and vocalists) and never felt the need to arrange or orchestrate or even compose.
That stick orchestra conductors use is called a baton.
Orchestra conductors stand before the orchestra on a raised platform in the orchestra pit that allows him to be in full view of the entire orchestra. A tray is attached to the stand that holds the music or opera score that is to be conducted.
A conductors baton.
If you are referring to the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), the answer is that it had several principal conductors during that period: Previn, Abbado, Tilson Thomas, and Davis. If you are referring to another symphony orchestra located in London (it has more than one!) please say which one.
There is no guitar in a standard symphony orchestra. If the orchestra is playing a guitar concerto, the guitarist would sit in front of the orchestra, near the conductor, as would any other soloist.
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JoAnn Falletta (Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra)
Orchestra conductors are important because they keep all the musician in sync and on time with each other. If you're referring to conductors of electricity, they're important because they let electricity flow.
There are two resident conductors - Daniel Meyer and Lawrence Loh
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A person who directs an orchestra is called the conductor. Sometimes, conductors are referred to as music directors. The composer is the person who wrote the music being played.
That stick orchestra conductors use is called a baton.
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Orchestra conductors stand before the orchestra on a raised platform in the orchestra pit that allows him to be in full view of the entire orchestra. A tray is attached to the stand that holds the music or opera score that is to be conducted.
There are worldwide so many famous orchestras and evidently also many famous conductors, in fact there are more famous conductors than famous orchestras. Even there was a chief conductor who managed to conduct a famous orchestra for fifty years in a row. His name Evgeny Mravinsky. He conducted the oldest Russian Philharmonic Orchestra: Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra from 1938 - 1988. It was formed in 1882 as the Imperial Music Choir and performed solely for Alexander III and his court. Richard Strauss also conducted this orchestra in 1912. During the times gone by it changed several times it's name. Also a very famous Orchestra and several famous conductors is the one I use to play in for seven years. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from Amsterdam, Netherlands. Bernard Haitink conducted the RCO for many years, making recordings for Philips, Decca and EMI classics, on which I also played as a second violinist. He conducted for the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
A conductors baton.