orchestra leader
C6051
concept
An orchestra leader is the conductor responsible for interpreting the musical score, directing the musicians’ performance, and coordinating tempo, dynamics, and expression to create a unified rendition of a piece.
All labels observed (29)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| American conductor | 13 |
| German conductor | 12 |
| British conductor | 11 |
| big band leader | 10 |
| orchestra leader canonical | 9 |
| Kapellmeister | 6 |
| Russian conductor | 5 |
| Polish conductor | 3 |
| Austrian conductor | 2 |
| Broadway conductor | 2 |
| Dutch conductor | 2 |
| orchestra founder | 2 |
| orchestral conducting position | 2 |
| orchestral leader | 2 |
| position in a symphony orchestra | 2 |
| 지휘자 | 2 |
| Brazilian conductor | 1 |
| Czech conductor | 1 |
| Estonian conductor | 1 |
| Finnish conductor | 1 |
| Latvian conductor | 1 |
| Norwegian conductor | 1 |
| Russian-American conductor | 1 |
| conductor–orchestra partnership | 1 |
| orchestral leadership position | 1 |
| orchestra–conductor partnership | 1 |
| principal conductor position | 1 |
| дирижёр | 1 |
| 指揮者 | 1 |
Instances (95)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Arvīds Jansons | Latvian conductor |
| Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai | German conductor |
| Vladimir Golschmann | American conductor |
| Sir Adrian Boult | British conductor |
| Sakari Oramo | Finnish conductor |
| Tommy Dorsey | big band leader |
| Alan Gilbert | American conductor |
| Carlos Kleiber | Austrian conductor |
| Arthur Fiedler | American conductor |
| Paul Whiteman | — |
| Artie Shaw | big band leader |
| Krzysztof Penderecki | Polish conductor |
| Brian Miller | — |
| Kurt Masur | German conductor |
| Gennady Rozhdestvensky | Russian conductor |
| Bert Kaempfert | — |
| David Rose | — |
| George Frideric Handel | Kapellmeister |
| Johann Hermann Schein | Kapellmeister |
|
Woodard
surface form:
David Woodard
|
American conductor |
| Johann Philipp Christian Schulz | German conductor |
| Fritz Busch | German conductor |
| Herbert Greene | Broadway conductor |
| Kapellmeister of the Imperial Chapel | Kapellmeister |
| Henry Hadley | American conductor |
| Yevgeny Svetlanov | Russian conductor |
| Daniel Harding | British conductor |
| Principal Conductor of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino | orchestral leadership position |
| Music Director of the Bavarian State Orchestra | orchestral conducting position |
| Charles Groves | British conductor |
| Vasily Petrenko | Russian conductor |
| Arvid Fladmoe | Norwegian conductor |
| Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | orchestral conducting position |
| Walter Susskind | British conductor |
| Erskine Hawkins | big band leader |
|
Boult
surface form:
Adrian Boult
|
British conductor |
| Joseph Flummerfelt | American conductor |
| Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. | big band leader |
|
Thomas
surface form:
Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr.
|
big band leader |
|
Mahanoy Plane, Pennsylvania, United States
surface form:
Tommy Dorsey
|
big band leader |
| Jimmy Dorsey | big band leader |
| Yuri Temirkanov | Russian conductor |
| Nicholas Cleobury | British conductor |
| Paul Mauriat | — |
| Ward Stare | American conductor |
| Liza Redfield | Broadway conductor |
| Christopher Seaman | British conductor |
| Jiří Bělohlávek | Czech conductor |
| Henry Kimball Hadley | American conductor |
|
Böhm
surface form:
Karl Böhm
|
Austrian conductor |